OpenMarine and Signal-K

I heard about these less than a week ago.

This is very interesting. Very interesting.

I have a partially complete IoT anchor alarm.

The idea of leveraging the boat's other devices through a Signal-K interface is …

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Circuit Python on the Gemma M0 -- The Red Ranger Beacon

PyCon 2018 Swag included a Gemma m0. (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3501)

PyCon 2019 Swag included a Circuit Playground Express. See https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-circuit-playground-express/circuitpython-quickstart.

Both of these are (to me) amazing. They mount as USB devices; there’s a code.py file that’s automatically run …

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NMEA Data Acquisition -- An IoT Exercise with Python

Here's the code: https://github.com/slott56/NMEA-Tools. This is Python code to do some Internet of Things (IoT) stuff. Oddly, even when things connected by a point-to-point serial interface, it's still often called IoT. Even though there's no "Internetworking."

Some IoT projects have a common arc: exploration, modeling, filtering …

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