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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : electric imp or other

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viscomjim
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Joined: 08/01/2014
Location: United States
Posts: 925

Posted: 05:07am 05 Feb 2014

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Hi All,

Has anybody tried to get the maximite connected to the internet using either a shield or something like the electric imp, to control things over web? Here is a pic if you have not seen it yet...

MicroBlocks

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Joined: 12/05/2012
Location: Thailand
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Posted: 05:18am 05 Feb 2014

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I was eager to find out what the electric imp was, when it was in development.
Soon as i found out that you need a hosted service i lost all interest.
Still if you don't mind a dependency it is a nifty thing.
I would like to try out a few wifi and wired ethernet modules to get an internet connection.
Most of them just use a serial port.

Microblocks. Build with logic.

cwilt
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Joined: 20/03/2012
Location: United States
Posts: 147

Posted: 06:20am 05 Feb 2014

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I have in the past used RN-VX or wifly. With a few external parts I was able to factory reset and configure the wifly for my network on startup. With some simple string parsing I was able to create a slow but simple, 1 client, html server. Handy for simple remote control and remote sensing.

plasma
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Joined: 08/04/2012
Location: Germany
Posts: 437

Posted: 06:42am 05 Feb 2014

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yeah the wifly works fine but its to expensive.

maybe the cc3000 from adafruit is a cheaper solution.

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