Bad news if you bought several Insignia-branded smart devices from Best Buy. The company has decided to shut down the back end systems that make them work — or at least work as a smart device. On the chopping block are smart outlets, switches, a security camera, and an upright freezer. If you bought, say, […]
Join us Wednesday at 5:00 PM Pacific time for the Easy EDA Hack Chat with Dillon He! Note the different time than our usual Hack Chat slot! Dillon will be joining us from China. Since the birth of electronic design automation in the 1980s, the universe of products to choose from has grown tremendously. Features […]
Love it or hate it, for many people embedded systems means Arduino. Now Arduino is leveraging its more powerful MKR boards and introducing a cloud service, the Arduino IoT Cloud. The goal is to make it simple for Arduino programs to record data and control actions from the cloud. The program is in beta and […]
It’s a story as old as time: you need to swap between your custom license plates, but you can’t find a screwdriver and you’re already running late for a big meeting at the Business Factory. You called AAA to see if they could come out and do it for you, but as luck would have […]