By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio — with the legacy exception of its Windows and desktop application code — to all of the open-source patent consortium’s members.
Source: Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio | ZDNet
Bluetooth is a ubiquitous wireless technology that is increasingly being used in smart building applications and devices.
Source: Bluetooth basics and how it’s used in smart buildings
Add a little more smarts to each device, while having a long healthy life on a small battery
Source: Announcing a New Wireless Chip with Longer Lifetime, More Space
Of all debugging tools in my lab the LED + a resistor is the most used ones. Always had been, always will be.
New Z-Wave owner Silicon Labs has launched a public developer site for the Z-Wave home automation wireless standard with public documentation, a public Z-Wave SDK, a Raspberry Pi image, and a forum.
Source: Z-Wave opens up with new public SDK and developer site
Espressif Systems ESP32 has many new interfaces over ESP8266, but still lacks a hardware camera interface like DVP or MIPI CSI. However, it’s still
X-CUBE-BLEMESH1 – Mesh over Bluetooth low energy software expansion for STM32Cube, X-CUBE-BLEMESH1, STMicroelectronics
