spark – Internet of Things https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot Hans Scharler is an Internet of Things pioneer. He writes about IoT and ThingSpeak IoT platform features. Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:24:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Let Your Plants Tweet Using Spark and ThingSpeak https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2015/02/27/let-your-plants-tweet-using-spark-and-thingspeak/?s_tid=feedtopost https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2015/02/27/let-your-plants-tweet-using-spark-and-thingspeak/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:27:01 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=1423

Head over to Instructables to learn how to make your plants Tweet using Spark Wi-Fi and ThingSpeak. Gregory Fenton created a project that monitors his plant’s soil moisture and then notifies... read more >>

]]> Head over to Instructables to learn how to make your plants Tweet using Spark Wi-Fi and ThingSpeak. Gregory Fenton created a project that monitors his plant’s soil moisture and then notifies him via Twitter when it is time to water it.

Spark ThingSpeak Plant Monitor

Greg built the project out of necessity to help his plants suffering from “localized drought”. Let’s hope his plants get proper watering and that other ThingSpeak users can quickly and easily build this project. Thanks for sharing!

[via Instructables]

]]> https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2015/02/27/let-your-plants-tweet-using-spark-and-thingspeak/feed/ 0 Blynk Internet of Things App for Arduino to Support ThingSpeak Web Services https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2015/02/12/blynk-internet-of-things-app-for-arduino-to-support-thingspeak-web-services/?s_tid=feedtopost https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/2015/02/12/blynk-internet-of-things-app-for-arduino-to-support-thingspeak-web-services/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:55:00 +0000 https://blogs.mathworks.com/iot/?p=1416

A really awesome Kickstarter campaign called Blynk has came to our attention as users from their community and ours were asking if our systems could work together. Blynk is an Android / iOS app that... read more >>

]]> A really awesome Kickstarter campaign called Blynk has came to our attention as users from their community and ours were asking if our systems could work together.

Blynk Kickstarter IoT

Blynk is an Android / iOS app that allows for a 5 minute, out-of-the-box experience for Internet of Things projects. Blynk already supports Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and in the future Electric Imp, Spark, The Airboard, Wildfire by Wicked Device, Tiny Duino, and ESP8266 Wi-Fi.

ThingSpeak offers the Internet of Things stable data storage, fast retrieval, data processing, data visualizations, and hooks to every web service possible. We are thrilled that Blynk is planning to support the open APIs of ThingSpeak to extend any IoT project with ThingSpeak web services.

Blynk ThingSpeak IoT Kickstarter

The Blynk Kickstarter campaign ends at 12pm EST on February 14th. You have less than 48 hours to support Blynk! $20+ pledges will also get free 1 year premium account at Codebender.

[via Kickstarter]

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