We have updated our ThingTweet Tutorial to cover the Arduino Ethernet and the new Arduino IDE (v1 and above). ThingTweet is a ThingSpeak App that allows you to send Twitter status updates via your Arduino microcontroller with an Ethernet shield or with Ethernet integrated onto one board. Our Arduino examples for ThingSpeak and ThingSpeak Apps have been moved to GitHub, so that you can easily download, modify, and contribute updates.
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Oct 12
μPLibrary – .NET Micro Framework Client for ThingSpeak Platform
.NET Micro Framework Developer [paolopat] created a client for the ThingSpeak platform. This allows any device that supports the .NET Micro Framework to access ThingSpeak web services by using the μPLibrary 1.8. The library is available on NuGet Gallery and abstracts the ThingSpeak API. The library works with the popular Netduino Plus and other devices running .NET Micro Framework.
Paolo says,
“With more and more embedded devices “smart” in the world, begins to take on an increasingly important concept of the Internet of Things (IoT), a neologism by which you want to express the capacity that these devices (brutally “things”) in order to connect to the world wide web and exchange information. In this come into play a number of online platforms that provide the service to upload and logging information in real-time making it available to other devices that request them. The architecture is oriented such that the platform is obviously RESTful where the data grouped into channels and feeds are accessible through the concept of URL.
One of the main platforms is certainly ThingSpeak, for which I have implemented a client for. NET Micro Framework and I have included in my library uPLibrary (now at version 1.8.0.0) present on CodePlex, namespace uPLibrary.IoT.ThingSpeak.”
Thank you, Paolo!
[via Embedded101]
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Sep 12
Open Hardware Summit 2012
The Open Hardware Summit is September 27th, 2012 in New York City at Eyebeam. For the second year, ThingSpeak is sponsoring the event!
The OHS was a blast last year. We got to meet all the Open Source Hardware heroes that are pushing this movement forward. Our part in all this is to push open platforms to connect all that open hardware. ThingSpeak is growing very quickly as you see projects pop-up every day. We will be releasing our two-year numbers and the latest stats just before the Open Hardware Summit. Just a hint about what you will hear… we doubled in size over the last 6 months!
Sponsorship opportunities are still available!
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Jul 12
The ThingSpeak API now has a Ruby Gem, code on GitHub too
If you use Ruby to write programs and apps, Daniel Treacy created a Ruby wrapper for the ThingSpeak API. This Gem makes it easy to access the ThingSpeak API inside of your Ruby code.
For more information, check out our tutorial and visit GitHub for the full source code. Thanks Daniel!
[via RubyGems.org]
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Mar 12
Getting Started with ThingSpeak – Video Tutorials
“You might have recently heard about ‘Internet of Things’. You may even be wondering what things are…”
We are starting a video tutorial series, so you can see how to get started with ThingSpeak right away. The first two videos are available now along with our 20 other tutorials for ThingSpeak. Check out the Tutorials section of the ThingSpeak Community website.
Introduction to the “Internet of Things” and ThingSpeak
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Mar 12
Accessing Historical Data on a ThingSpeak Channel
We have recently received a few email about accessing historical data. We even noticed some posts on other forums asking about older data.
All ThingSpeak Channels are continuous logs of data. Using API commands, you can access recent data and historical data. The default API parameters allow for easy access to recent data. To get access to older data, all you need to do is pass in a “start” and “end” parameter into a channel request.
Here is my feed from New Year’s Eve:
http://api.thingspeak.com/channels/9/feed.json?start=2011-12-31%2000:00:00&end=2012-01-01%2000:00:00
And remember, you can also do this with charts too:
Let us know if you need any more clarification on the many API parameters possible. Have fun!
PS. Some big features coming soon!
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Feb 12
Interfacing with Cloud Services using Flyport + ThingSpeak
The team behind openPICUS has created an Application Note to help you jump-start your “Internet of Things” project by adding wireless technology with the Flyport and cloud services with ThingsSpeak. Both of these projects are open source, changeable, and ready for all kinds of applications. This combination allows you build “new” things that tap into cloud services via ThingSpeak apps such as Channels for data logging, Charts for seeing data, ThingTweet for making things tweet, React to send alerts, and ThingHTTP to access web data such as weather reports.
Download the free Application Note, “Interfacing Flyport to ThingSpeak“, and the Source Code to get your Flyport connected to web services via ThingSpeak.
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Jan 12
ThingSpeak is available in Italian, un progetto di Open Internet of Things
[stefano] generously translated ThingSpeak into Italian and we are very thankful. The ThingSpeak web app now supports Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, and English thanks to some awesome ThingSpeak users! ThingSpeak è un progetto di Open Internet of Things da ioBridge!
Be sure to checkout Stefano’s blog, he is working on some great Internet of Things projects using ThingSpeak, Paraimpu, and OpenPicus. Again, grazie mille.
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Dec 11
TweetControl App Documentation Updated
We have update the documentation for the TweetControl app:
http://community.thingspeak.com/documentation/apps/tweetcontrol/
TweetControl allows you to monitor Twitter for trigger words to send ThingHTTP requests. The CheerLights project by ioBridge Labs uses TweetControl to update its ThingSpeak Channel so other lights around the world stay in sync with each other.
Why use TweetControl? Our app connects to the Twitter Streaming API. What this means to you is that you don’t have to keep polling Twitter for status updates. You can sit back and let TweetControl listen and then process the request when a trigger word gets fired. This happens in real-time and it’s quite remarkable to see in action.
TweetControl is a part of our collection of apps for social things.
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Dec 11
MyRobots: Social Network for Robots is Powered by ThingSpeak
MyRobots.com launched this week to much fanfare in the blog-o-sphere. The concept behind MyRobots is to be the “Facebook for Robots”. This is an ambitious goal. Just imagine a portal where robots can interact with each other and allow for meaningful, in context interactions with us. If a Robot needs their battery charged, we should be able to know that information in real-time and they should be able to alert their caregivers with any information that they collect from their environment.
The innovators behind MyRobots is the team from RobotShop lead up by robot specialist Carlos Asmat. RobotShop carries all things robots for tinkers to build and modify robots, repair robots, and extend their functionality.
We are pleased to announce that MyRobots is powered by ThingSpeak. RobotShop was able to bring this innovative service to market very quickly by leveraging the highly-scalable design of ThingSpeak and it’s suite of apps to make things social, in this case Robots! We licensed a standalone version ThingSpeak to enable the quick expansion of the MyRobots platform and give their application a kick start vs. starting from scratch.
The vision is a big one. We are just at the starting point for where MyRobots can take the future of social robotics. We are so excited to be a part of the story and also see where this project will go. When new things emerge from MyRobots we will continue to share the latest news with you. Move over Internet of Things, it’s time for the Internet of Robots!
While MyRobots shop is in beta, make sure to sign up soon and help influence the direction of this project. Robots speak now…
[MyRobots Press Release via New Scientist / Engadget / Gizmodo UK]