Patrick French
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Connected Devices and IoT

LoRa and Semtech and Sigfox, Oh My

Discover LoRa's power for IoT with Semtech, Microchip, and ST Microelectronics. Build your network with Cardinal Peak for tailored solutions.
Cardinal Peak
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Connected Devices and IoT

Expanding the Wild Blue Yonder

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...
Cardinal Peak
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Connected Devices and IoT

Building a Home Automation System (For Fun)

Discover how to build your own home automation system with ease and efficiency. Take control of your environment using the latest in DIY technology.
Discover LoRa's power for IoT with Semtech, Microchip, and ST Microelectronics. Build your network with Cardinal Peak for tailored solutions.
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...
Discover how to build your own home automation system with ease and efficiency. Take control of your environment using the latest in DIY technology.
Patrick French
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Connected Devices and IoT

The Future of LPWAN and the IoT

Discover the best wireless network for your IoT devices! Explore the pros and cons of cellular, Wi-Fi, and LPWAN options to find the perfect fit for your needs.
Cardinal Peak
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Software Development

What’s so Hard About Hardware?

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,...
Cardinal Peak
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Outsourced Engineering

Remote Logging: Part 2

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...
Discover the best wireless network for your IoT devices! Explore the pros and cons of cellular, Wi-Fi, and LPWAN options to find the perfect fit for your needs.
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,...
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...
Cardinal Peak
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Audio

Keeping It All in Sync: Part Two

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...
Cardinal Peak
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Audio

Keeping It All in Sync: Part One

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...
Cardinal Peak
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Outsourced Engineering

Remote Logging: A Guest Post for Loggly

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...
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...
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...
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...
Howdy Pierce
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Connected Devices and IoT

Is Voice Control the Killer App for Residential IoT?

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...
Cardinal Peak
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Streaming Media

A Comprehensive GStreamer Guide: Explaining What GStreamer Is and How To Set It Up for Windows

GStreamer is a very good open-source multimedia framework supported on almost every platform conceivable. To use advanced features of GStreamer in Windows, we updated the complex legacy instructions for building GStreamer-1.0 (1.8.0) on Windows.
Patrick French
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Connected Devices and IoT

Do You Believe in Magic?

“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...
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...
GStreamer is a very good open-source multimedia framework supported on almost every platform conceivable. To use advanced features of GStreamer in Windows, we updated the complex legacy instructions for building GStreamer-1.0 (1.8.0) on Windows.
“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...