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Expanding the Wild Blue Yonder
Connected Devices and IoT
By Stefanie Diesi
Last month, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced yet another new Bluetooth® spec, called Bluetooth 5. This new release, out at the end of this year or early next, quadruples the range and doubles the speed of the previous spec. When they hit the market, Bluetooth 5-enabled devices will be able to connect at speeds… View ArticleDetails
The Future of LPWAN and the IoT
Connected Devices and IoT
By Pat French
A lot of IoT applications — perhaps the majority — require a wireless network to connect the edge device (the “thing”) to the internet. There are correspondingly several types of wireless networks, with the most common being cellular and Wi-Fi. Cellular’s advantage is its ability to work anywhere, while its disadvantages are the monthly fee… View ArticleDetails
What’s so Hard About Hardware?
Software Development
By Kate Bethurem
I had the pleasure of attending a few segments of Boulder Startup Week, a weeklong event just down the road from Cardinal Peak dedicated to helping startups become successful. Startup Week brings innovators, entrepreneurs, mentors, and investors together to talk about how startups can create the right culture, find funding, bring a product to market,… View ArticleDetails
Remote Logging: Part 2
Outsourced Engineering
By Cardinal Peak Staff
Continuing his guest blogging series over at the Loggly blog, Cardinal Peak Senior Software Engineer Thomson Comer talks this week about how to write effectively for Loggly. He debunks myths about remote logging and gives some great tips for debugging. Check out his most recent post and stay tuned for the third and final post… View ArticleDetails
Keeping It All in Sync: Part Two
Audio
By Stefanie Diesi
Earlier this week, I wrote about the importance of synching audio and video, something that we use in many applications. We’ve already discussed why it’s necessary, and today I want to talk about the different ways to do it, some easier than others. Adjust the Video The most common and easiest way to correct for… View ArticleDetails
Keeping It All in Sync: Part One
Audio
By Stefanie Diesi
These days, we employ audio and video applications in everything from IoT to embedded products, and one challenge that comes up time and time again is synchronization. Synchronization between audio and video streams is the most common case, but some applications require synchronization between multiple A/V streams, the latter being much more complicated. For the… View ArticleDetails
Remote Logging: A Guest Post for Loggly
Outsourced Engineering
By Cardinal Peak Staff
Thomson Comer, Senior Software Engineer here at Cardinal Peak, is writing a guest blog series starting this week for Loggly. His three-part series begins with this post explaining how remote logging works and how it can benefit engineers and developers in locating bugs in specific lines of code. Leave questions and comments for Thomson here… View ArticleDetails
Is Voice Control the Killer App for Residential IoT?
Connected Devices and IoT
By Howdy Pierce
Like possibly everyone else who grew up watching Sesame Street, I loved Apple’s new ad featuring the Cookie Monster using Siri to help make cookies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCbWyYr82BM And the behind-the-scenes follow-up is possibly even funnier if you haven’t seen it. The pairing of the childlike Cookie Monster and Siri is pure genius. Great as these ads… View ArticleDetails
Do You Believe in Magic?
Connected Devices and IoT
By Pat French
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clark Working in the IoT industry and being a technology enthusiast, I am always playing with the latest IoT gadgets. While many of these devices have beautiful apps, I’m starting to feel like the IoT industry is not living up to Arthur C. Clark’s… View ArticleDetails
It’s That Time Again
Software Development
By Stefanie Diesi
It’s an early morning for many of us after “springing forward” and losing an hour of sleep over the weekend. While the time change might have a jarring impact on our alertness, our computers are probably humming along without ever noticing the switch. Or did they? It depends on which time system you’re using since… View ArticleDetails