Chirimen, a Firefox OS-Powered IoT Single-Board Computer Developed by Mozilla

Post by IshKebab » Fri, Jan 08, 2016, 12:53 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #9

userbinator wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's just unfamiliarity with anything else, and unawareness of the staggering complexity this introduces. Also, this is Mozilla who have a large concentration of people familiar with browser technologies. On the other hand, I think IoTs with web interfaces aren't a bad idea.

> I think IoTs with web interfaces aren't a bad idea. I think it is. The internet-of-things does not need to suffer from massive power consumption and hard to implement on the micro-controller scale protocols. It needs something much more along the lines of encrypted UDP than that it needs to use 'web technologies'. Imagining a stack made on 'web technologies' running off power harvested over a relatively long period…

Post by mhandley » Fri, Jan 08, 2016, 12:55 PM UTC

0x4a42 wrote: post #38

cguess wrote: post #10

Creating an entire HTML page structure just to get to the code because you need a tag? Oh god.

You don't need to create the whole page structure like in the example though. html, head and body tags are optional under certains conditions. [1] I guess you could just write the example code like this : var v = 0; GPIO.getPort(196).then( function(port) { setInterval(toggleLight, 1000, port); } ); function toggleLight(port){ v = v ? 0 : 1; port.write(v); } Just having the script tags would also probably works in mos…

  void setup() {
    pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
  }

  void loop() {
    digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
    delay(1000); 
    digitalWrite(13, LOW);
    delay(1000); 
  }

Post by vikeri » Fri, Jan 08, 2016, 1:04 PM UTC

jokoon wrote: post #3

"Make Real Things with Browser Technologies" How is that better or so different than making real things in C ? What problem would it solve? I get that js got very popular thanks to browsers, but does that mean we should use js for everything? Seems like mozilla is just trying to salvage firefoxOS.

Post by espadrine » Fri, Jan 08, 2016, 1:17 PM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #5

raffomania wrote: post #2

I never understood why people want to use browser technologies for the internet of things.

I think it's just unfamiliarity with anything else, and unawareness of the staggering complexity this introduces. Also, this is Mozilla who have a large concentration of people familiar with browser technologies. On the other hand, I think IoTs with web interfaces aren't a bad idea.

Post by espadrine » Fri, Jan 08, 2016, 1:26 PM UTC

Already__Taken wrote: post #6

jokoon wrote: post #3

"Make Real Things with Browser Technologies" How is that better or so different than making real things in C ? What problem would it solve? I get that js got very popular thanks to browsers, but does that mean we should use js for everything? Seems like mozilla is just trying to salvage firefoxOS.

I've developed a few things on my Espruino Pico[1] board, some Raspberry pi and also so arduino things. Just toys really. One of the nice this I've found with the Pico is because of the JS vm, when I don't do anything in the code all the power in the chip goes to sleep state, and just wakes up for me as I've got scheduled. Yes Arduino has sleeps but i've also go to go learn that as another thing, yes the Pi can be co…