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Google and Microsoft have publicly stated that they’ve found more than two-thirds of all security vulnerabilities in applications are due to memory issues. Recognizing the potentially catastrophic impact of such vulnerabilities, the U.S. CISA, NSA, FBI, and International Cybersecurity Authorities (from the Five Eyes) posted strong guidance a few years ago urging developers to move away from these legacy platforms in favor of memory-safe runtimes like .NET for IoT.

For over 50 years, an architecture known as SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) has been used to monitor, manage, automate, and control large-scale industrial processes. Today, SCADA has become indispensable across industries like manufacturing, energy, water and waste management, transportation, and more. The…

Did you know that since Meadow.OS v1.6, you can use the Direct Memory Access (DMA) feature on the F7 to do Analog to Digital Conversions (ADC) at an incredibly high sampling rate? While the AnalogInputPort provides a powerful way to do analog port reads…

A large subset of what’s called “motion control” is all about using motors to perform actions.  From large industrial conveyors and bulk material augers down to 3D printers and hobby robots, motors are everywhere. The question for us is “how do I control those…

As modern .NET developers, we’re gotten used to seeing and using Tasks in our code. They do a great job of abstracting away the complexity and dangers of old school multi-threaded code. If you’ve got experience creating complex threaded applications using Threads you definitely…

Creating a production IoT solution is a daunting challenge. Most embedded solutions that make it to the field are written using Embedded-C, a 50 year old language that has changed little in its intervening years, along with its associated tooling, which isn’t much better….

In an earlier blog I talked about why Meadow apps on the F7 (i.e. our Feather and Core Compute based products) are always named “App.dll”, but if you’re running Meadow on Linux or Windows, that explanation makes things a bit muddy. In this deep…

Simply running your application is usually the primary focus of an IoT solution, but how do you know if it’s running well? How do you track if the app is crashing and the device is rebooting? How do you know what devices in the…

November is a busy conference season, and we’ll be talking about Meadow at three conferences all at the same time! Make sure to check us out.

At Wilderness Labs we strive to simplify integrating hardware into your .NET solutions. Industrial automation and process control are very hardware-heavy, and Meadow provides the ability to add in sensors and telemetry to your plant floor in a fast, inexpensive, and unobtrusive way. You…

Our MicroLayout library provides a lightweight framework for creating HMIs with labels, buttons and images but sometimes that’s just not quite enough to give your users the information you want. IoT devices very often collect time-series telemetry, and displaying that data is usually meaningful…

One great feature of our F7 Feather platforms is the built-in battery connector and charging circuit, but developers that use it in their applications almost always follow up with the question of “How can my application know if I’m on line power or battery…

It wasn’t too long ago that the release process for the Meadow stack was…let’s just call it horribly inefficient. From when we decided “time to ship a build” to when NuGets were available was literally measured in days. It was a process that we…

If you work directly with a Meadow F7 Feather or a Meadow Core Compute Module, accessing the hardware signals from your application is pretty simple and straightforward. The Meadow.Core stack exposes the Device.Pins collection so creating something as simple as an IDigitalOutputPort is pretty…

The Meadow Core stack has a hard-coded requirement for Meadow Apps on the F7 platform to be named either “App.dll” or “App.exe”. This requirement is actually a bit of a legacy carryover from the beta days. Originally, when the Meadow stack only targeted the…

If you’re working on an IoT project with a display, then you’re almost certainly wanting to show information to a user. Drawing that information using drawing primitives can be both cumbersome and non-portable. We at Wilderness Labs have released our MicroLayout library to help…

It’s pretty common for an IoT application to need to read persistent but changeable settings at startup. Meadow applications have long supported the app.config.yaml file for settings to control behavior of the Resolver.Log, the device’s lifecycle behavior (e.g. restarting on an uncaught exception) or…

If you’re building an industrial embedded application, you’re probably aware of the RS485 standard. It’s been an industry standard for decades and it persists because it’s both simple and works very well over long distances and in EM-noisy environments. The Wilderness Labs Project Lab…

Developing applications requires debugging and in most embedded projects this means writing to a logger. Meadow is no different here. If you’re familiar with Meadow development, you’re probably familiar with calling the various methods on Resolver.Log but you might wonder why we recommend you…

Dear Wilderness Labs Community, As part of our commitment to continuous improvement and delivering the best user experience for developing on Meadow, we have decided to shift our focus to better maintain and enhance the Meadow Tools Extension for Visual Studio 2022. This means…

Meadow v1.0: Revolutionizing IoT Development for 10MM+ .NET Developers with Unmatched Security, Speed, and Productivity PORTLAND, Ore., June 9, 2023 – Wilderness Labs, the driving force behind the Meadow platform, proudly announces the much-anticipated GA release of Meadow v1.0. After six years of dedicated…

Meadow is now v1.0 Thanks to everyone who attended DevCamp 2023, either in person or virtually! We enjoyed seeing so many customers and community members. We announced a LOT of innovative product news at DevCamp that we’ve been working on, but one announcement stood…

On April 12, developer advocate Jorge Ramirez and Adrian Stevens did a presentation at Microsoft Reactor in Redmond, showing a roadmap of what it takes to take an IoT project from idea to Production and how to make it possible with Meadow. Fortunately we…

You can finally configure your Meadow projects with Azure using IoT Hub! This guide will guide you step by step of what you need to do generate a sas access token that you’ll add on your project to communicate with azure to send and…