Meadow

Our mission is deceptively simple: to make hardware development as fast and easy as web or mobile development. And to that end, we’ve spent five years solving incredibly difficult challenges to democratize hardware development for all. Prototype without breadboarding. This week, we announced the…

Wilderness Labs announces the appointment of Thomas Dohmke as Chair of the Board of Wilderness Labs. Dohmke is the CEO of GitHub, the largest developer community on the planet. Having been a developer for over 30 years, Thomas brings extensive experience in building developer…

In this post shows you how I performs a full stack update, meaning updates for the Meadow.CLI, Meadow.OS binaries, Visual Studio extensions, and Meadow.Foundation drivers and updates. Check out our Release Notes to see all the latest changes in every beta release. Updating your…

Drawing images on a display is pretty much table-stakes for any sort of display-based application, and embedded software is no exception. Meadow Foundation‘s MicroGraphics Library is our go-to for drawing things like lines, shapes and text, but it wasn’t terribly friendly for drawing images….

Not long ago, one of our Meadow engineers, Chris Tacke, did a very interesting demo using Meadow to show what working in IoT looks like coming as a .NET software developer, and you’ll be surprised on how easy and familiar is to use our…

Hey folks!  Bryan here, I wanted to share some learning we gained around batteries and the supply chain that might be useful in your own battery-powered, IoT solutions.  As a reference IoT kit, Clima is intended to help our customers accelerate their own production-IoT…

I’m starting on a new side project for fun. I want to create a scoring box for fencing (the olympic sport, not building fences). If you don’t know much about fencing, the score box is wired to each fencer and their blade and it…

We have now released our last beta update of the year, VS2022 extension! – Meadow officially supports Visual Studio 2022! Open the Manage Extensions dialog in Visual Studio to install. The existing extension for VS2019 and VSCode has also been updated with more stability…

Microsoft Partner Program Manager, Scott Hanselman, and Product Manager for WSL, Craig Loewen walk through how to connect Meadow to the Windows Linux Subsystem for full device support. Once connected, Scott performs a live demo on how to flash the last OS onto Meadow…

Hi folks, Jorge here, and in this post I wanted to point out a few things to consider when upgrading your Meadow Application from a F7v1 to a F7v2 board. While both may look very similar at first sight, F7v2 packs a number of…

If you’d like to get real time weather data to your Meadow projects, you should try using the free public weather web service OpenWeatherMap, which we use already in a couple of our projects up on Hackster. First you’ll need to create an account…

About a year ago I was working on a project for an NVIDIA Jetson Nano that used four pretty common and easy to find peripheral devices. As a long-time embedded .NET developer, I decided that using the .NET IoT library was probably the route…

We’re happy to announce our latest full-stack release, b6.0. We’ve added in-IDE debugging, device config file support, a 20x Graphics Performance, and much more. Debugging – Debugging support in Visual Studio for Windows, macOS, and VS Code! Device/OS Configuration – Device and OS settings are now…

Hello friends, If you missed the Meadow presentation at .NET Conf, you can check the recorded session right now on YouTube. Bryan Costanich and Adrian Stevens show off how relevant is for us software developers to get into IoT and how much our platform…

Hello friends, In case you missed the Meadow presentation at the On .NET Live series, you can check the recorded session right away. Cecil Philips interviews Bryan about IoT and the latest updates on Meadow boards, showing new features like running SQLite to log…

Hello friends of Wilderness Labs! Bryan here, and I’m super excited to break the news on a piece of technical art we’ve been working on for the last year, the Meadow F7v2 board: The F7v2 is the successor to our popular F7v1 board and…

Meadow b5.3 is out, and it’s our most stable and complete release yet. We spent a lot of effort fixing issues introduced in b5.1/b5.2, and also added SQLite support to Meadow! Big changes and fixes include: SQLite Support – SQLite is now built into Meadow.OS…

This is a small release that mainly focuses on cleanup of Meadow.Foundation, and fixing Bluetooth (which we broke in b5.1): BLE Fix – We broke the Bluetooth stack (among other small things) in b5.1 due to issues with our CI release pipeline. Most of the…

We have now shipped another full stack update for Meadow, meaning new Meadow.OS binaries, Meadow.CLI, NuGet packages and VS Extension updates. The major highlights for this release are: Full .NET Standard 2.1 – We moved all the projects over to .NET Standard 2.1. (Last release…

If you’re running beta 5.1 we released just now, after completing a full stack update from Meadow.OS to the VS Extension, you’ll also need to update your Meadow Application projects. In this post I’m going to show you how to do that. In beta…

Hello Meadow developers, In this post, I want to show you how to use the Meadow Extension for Visual Studio Code. Installation Download the extension .vsix file from the latest GitHub release. Click File -> Preferences -> Extensions. In the Extensions tab , click the … menu and…

In late September, 1999, Nasa’s Mars Climate Orbiter prepared to enter a stable orbit around the Red Planet to serve as a comms relay for the 1998 Mars Polar Lander and monitor climate on the planet below.  Launched December the year before, the USD$125MM…

And it’s the biggest release we’ve ever put out, with a pile of new features and goodies, including: Bluetooth v1.0 – That’s right, BLE support is here. Check out the Bluetooth Guide for details. .NET Standard 2.1 API Support – Meadow now fully supports…

This is another huge release with some really tasty new goodies, including: HttpListener Support – You can now turn your Meadow into a web server with HttpServer. TextDisplayMenu – Meadow.Foundation now has a new library called TextDisplayMenu that allows for easy menu creation and…