Berg is shutting down
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Berg is shutting down
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#2I've not heard of Berg before, just having a quick look on their front page, shows its hardware to connect an embedded system to wifi to their cloud.
Isn't this a big worry if you're using anyone else's cloud service for your own embedded hardware.
Interestingly other platforms exist that perform similar functionality using the same WIFI chip Ti CC3000 (such as Spark Core). There seems to be a number of new chips from china which look to potentially give Ti, a run for its money, such as the ESP8266.
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#3Sad to see that they're closing down, but understandably a nieche area of business.
The Little Printer was such a cute piece of tech, and I'm sure that they could've done a lot if not this fate was upon them.
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#4Looks like they plan to open source the Little Printer backend (if it's not sold).
http://littleprinterblog.tumblr.com/post/97047976103/the-fut...
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#5I did a small exploratory project using it, and my takeaway was that it was a solution in search of a problem, at least the Cloud aspect, which did absolutely nothing useful, other than sparing you from setting up your own endpoints, but in exchange your had to deal with a really limited (and limiting) API and a more complex infrastructure.
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#6Hooray for cloud-tethered devices!
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#7I've not heard of Berg before, just having a quick look on their front page, shows its hardware to connect an embedded system to wifi to their cloud. Isn't this a big worry if you're using anyone else's cloud service for your own embedded hardware. Interestingly other platforms exist that perform similar functionality using the same WIFI chip Ti CC3000 (such as Spark Core). There seems to be a number of new chips fro…
For those curious about the ESP8266, it's a 5$ Chinese wifi module which initially had limited/no English documentation. But now people are working on translating and testing the module[1]. Alternatives based on the TI chip from Adafruit and Sparkfun, for example, are about 35$ (with the chip by itself costing around 15$).
[1] http://hackaday.com/2014/09/06/the-current-state-of-esp8266-...
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#8I've not heard of Berg before, just having a quick look on their front page, shows its hardware to connect an embedded system to wifi to their cloud. Isn't this a big worry if you're using anyone else's cloud service for your own embedded hardware. Interestingly other platforms exist that perform similar functionality using the same WIFI chip Ti CC3000 (such as Spark Core). There seems to be a number of new chips fro…
Is it? My impression was that the ESP8266 can do maybe 56k level throughput, suitable for sensors but not for streaming meaningful amounts of data.
It is really really cheap though, which is great in itself and enables new applications.
Also the CC3000 is quite buggy, try using the newer CC3100/3200 if possible, pre-production silicon is already available.
Re: Berg is shutting down
#9I've not heard of Berg before, just having a quick look on their front page, shows its hardware to connect an embedded system to wifi to their cloud. Isn't this a big worry if you're using anyone else's cloud service for your own embedded hardware. Interestingly other platforms exist that perform similar functionality using the same WIFI chip Ti CC3000 (such as Spark Core). There seems to be a number of new chips fro…
Is it? My impression was that the ESP8266 can do maybe 56k level throughput, suitable for sensors but not for streaming meaningful amounts of data. It is really really cheap though, which is great in itself and enables new applications. Also the CC3000 is quite buggy, try using the newer CC3100/3200 if possible, pre-production silicon is already available.
I'm still waiting for mine to arrive, but I'm wondering if it _may_ be possible to get faster data rates without using the AT commands, and running code on the ESP8266 itself.
Re: Berg is shutting down
#10I've not heard of Berg before, just having a quick look on their front page, shows its hardware to connect an embedded system to wifi to their cloud. Isn't this a big worry if you're using anyone else's cloud service for your own embedded hardware. Interestingly other platforms exist that perform similar functionality using the same WIFI chip Ti CC3000 (such as Spark Core). There seems to be a number of new chips fro…
For those curious about the ESP8266, it's a 5$ Chinese wifi module which initially had limited/no English documentation. But now people are working on translating and testing the module[1]. Alternatives based on the TI chip from Adafruit and Sparkfun, for example, are about 35$ (with the chip by itself costing around 15$). [1] http://hackaday.com/2014/09/06/the-current-state-of-esp8266-... [2] http://www.adafruit.com…
You can get modules even cheaper than $5 on certain sites, I think mine cost around $3 from Taobao, which makes it very tempting (the chip itself is even cheaper still).