Coming Soon - Adafruit IO Day

The first annual “Adafruit IO Day” is coming up soon. Join us Online on October 10th (10/10 = IO/IO) for a day full of IoT projects, tutorials, and more!

IoT Projects

Grill Thermometer Dashboard

Cook your meats and non-meats with ultimate instrumentation! The Grill Thermometer Dashboard lets you monitor common Bluetooth LE temperature probes over the internet. - Adafruit Learning System

Reading my electric meter with RTL-SDR

Jeff Sandberg writes about using a radio dongle to interface his home’s smart power meters with his home automation dashboard. - PDX.su

Smart LED Dice Box

A dice box to interface with Pixels IoT Gaming Dice. Rolling the dice sets the dice box light’s to sparkle, glow certain colors and display status information. - HackADay

Where’s My Friend? A Location-Aware Display

Where’s my friend? Build this simple IoT project to display a friend’s or loved one’s location on an Adafruit PyPortal. - Adafruit Learning System

Decorative Dorm Lights, Controllable by Anyone

Riley Hutton modified a decommissioned traffic light to accept input from the Internet and made it public so anyone could control it. - TomsHardware

IoT News and More!

The First Fitbit

The inside story on the development of the first Fitbit wearable. - IEEE Spectrum

PrivacyLens uses thermal imaging to turn people into stick figures

PrivacyLens’ novel camera system allows digital video capture while removing identifying features from an image frame. - arstechnica

Why has the Internet of Things failed?

Pete Warden writes about the original pitch of IoT and compares it to the reality in 2024. - Pete Warden

Espressif Releases a Longevity Commitment Program

Espressif provides a minimum longevity commitment for every product series, ranging from 12 years (ESP32-S Series) to 15 years (ESP32 Series). - Espressif

Who Ya’ Gonna Call? Why IoT Companies Should Embrace Vulnerability Disclosure Programs

Consumer Report’s Stacey Higginbotham writes about why manufacturers should embrace vulnerability disclosure programs for IoT devices. - Consumer Reports

Support Adafruit

Here at Adafruit, we sell all of these amazing components, but we couldn’t find a good way to interact with them over the Internet. So, we decided to create our own IoT platform, and that’s Adafruit IO. It’s built from the ground up to be easy to use and platform agnostic (connect any development board or device!). For those who want to get a project off the ground without programming - Adafruit IO offers a No-Code interface for building IoT electronics projects using WipperSnapper, our open-source IoT firmware. Support Adafruit’s open-source development by subscribing to Adafruit IO Plus, the upgraded, all-systems-go version of the Adafruit IO service.