Meadow

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We’re excited to announce that we’re hosting our first ever, in-person, DevCamp in Seattle on May 18th/19th, 2023. Join us to be the first to hear some awesome Meadow news. Registration is free, and the in-person portion is invite-only. But don’t worry; even if…

PORTLAND, Ore., March 16, 2023 –  Wilderness Labs, a pioneering startup that has created an accessible IoT platform that opens the embedded hardware space to millions of .NET developers,  has announced the successful funding of its $3.3MM seed round. This funding is led by…

Check out our awesome series of archived livestream videos in which Wilderness Labs CEO, Bryan Costanich, walks through creating a custom Meadow Core-Compute Module powered GPS/GNSS tracker from start to finish. In this series, he starts with designing the PCB and then goes through…

That’s right! The long-awaited Meadow Core-Compute-Module (CCM) and CCM Dev Kit boards are going out the door to those that have pre-ordered them. If you’re designing production-IoT w/Meadow, these can help you get to production faster, easier, and without the supply chain headache! Meadow F7 CCMs have all…

A big congratulations to Project Green for winning an impact sponsorship. They’ve built a prototype residential water usage sensor that attaches to a water meter, uploads usage data to a dashboard where folks can track their water usage and notifies them if they’ve got…

Join us next week at Hackster.io’s Impact Summit on October 11th and 12th. Make sure to tune in on the 12th @ 2pm PT to catch Bryan Costanich’s lightning talk about humankind’s impact on the planet and how we, as technologists, can make positive…

As we work hard towards our biggest Meadow update yet, we just rolled out a beta build of our command line tool, Meadow.CLI, that will help make flashing, deploying files, listen to COM ports and more, work more reliably. Open a terminal and type:…

If you couldn’t attend our Meadow presentations at the Nuttx International workshop 2022, you can catch recording session on the Nuttx official YouTube channel: Here’s Mark Steven’s presentation, talking about how we use NuttX on our Meadow boards. Here’s Neal Ferguson’s presentation talking about…