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Re:The Spark Electron Adds Cellular Data to Your DIY Projects
on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:44PM (#9109046)
Gooooo us! Whispernet for everything!
Re:Spark Labs Raises $4.9M to Help Engineers Make Their Devices Smart
on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @09:25PM (#8007654)
You've got it- you can build your own board using our reference design and pay us a minor fee to use our lovely cloud. Pricing isn't public yet, but we can discuss it privately if you have a need. Thanks!
Re:Spark Labs Raises $4.9M to Help Engineers Make Their Devices Smart
on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @09:23PM (#8007648)
And a lot cheaper than Imp at scale- <$15 per device in hardware at scale.
Re:Spark Labs Raises $4.9M to Help Engineers Make Their Devices Smart
on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @03:59PM (#8006436)
The OS part is that you're running the Spark firmware to manage comms and security, which talks to the Spark Cloud and makes the rest of it easy. Building the cloud app to be fast, stable, scalable, and secure from scratch is difficult, so this is a SaaS play. Plus, how are you going to manage your 100,000 devices in the field? With Spark you can even do it all with API calls.
and, uh, cough I just joined Spark as well...
Re:Spark Labs Raises $4.9M to Help Engineers Make Their Devices Smart
on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @02:37PM (#8005990)
The main product isn't the board -- CC3000+STM32 -- but rather the glorious and inscrutable cloud service that goes with it. The board designs are even being given away for free, it's OSHW.
Re:Spark Labs Raises $4.9M to Help Engineers Make Their Devices Smart
on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @02:35PM (#8005978)
The Spark Core works as a standalone microcontroller (like an Arduino) and a WiFi connection (quite unlike an Arduino).
All you need is Spark.