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Arduino - IoT Developer

Azure IoT Workbench now supports ESP32 devices

August 13, 2018 Aug 13, 2018 08/13/18
Liya (Liki) Du
In April this year, we released our first public preview of Azure IoT Workbench in Visual Studio Code, an IoT development environment aims to make it easy to code, build, deploy and debug your IoT project for MXChip IoT DevKit. From this one DevKit, we gradually add more popular Azure supported development kits such as teXXmo IoT Button. ...

New Azure IoT services supported by IoT DevKit

January 14, 2018 Jan 14, 2018 01/14/18
Liya (Liki) Du
It's been around 4 months since we release our official hardware and SDK as v1.0 last September right on Ignite 2017. In that event, the MXChip IoT DevKit was used on a couple of Azure IoT break-out and keynote sessions for demonstrations and together with announcement with new services released such as IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service. And...

Handy Tool When You Develop With Azure IoT

September 1, 2017 Sep 1, 2017 09/1/17
Zhidi Shang
IoT Application Development is naturally more complicated than regular application development, in that even the simplest E2E IoT application involves a long chain from device layer, to communication layer, then to the cloud and beyond. This makes the development especially the testing and debugging difficult. Even though there are ...

MXChip IoT DevKit is available for pre-ordering

August 20, 2017 Aug 20, 2017 08/20/17
Liya (Liki) Du
DevKit is available for pre-ordering During the past two months, we have been keeping sending out preview IoT DevKit for evaluation to a selective group of requestors. And we see increasing demand for the kits from developers around the world, from Canada to Brazil, from Sweden to Sri Lanka. It is amazing and encouraging for the team to see ...

IoT Developers, Check Out These Development Tools!

August 10, 2017 Aug 10, 2017 08/10/17
Zhidi Shang
Many developers have heard about the buzz: Internet of Things (IoT).  As a standalone IT field, IoT has attracted lots of attentions for its huge potentials. But the ecosystem of IoT is too complicated and fragmented, leaving people easily get lost.   IoT Developers Need Tools In recent years, more and more people realized that ...

Find What You Want to Learn about IoT with Our Extended IoT Scenarios

July 14, 2017 Jul 14, 2017 07/14/17
alan_liang
IoT is deeply connected with many different fields in technology. From big data to machine learning, all of these topics combined together may perhaps overload new IoT developers on where to begin and what projects to start developing. In response, we at the Azure IoT developer division have written many different use-case tutorials for ...

Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino is now open sourced!

July 6, 2017 Jul 6, 2017 07/6/17
Zhidi Shang
We are glad to share the news that the Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino has been open sourced on GitHub.com at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-arduino! This is a great team effort to provide a good development experience for Arduino developers. Microsoft embraces open source. Thousands of Microsoft engineers use, contribute ...

MXChip IoT DevKit board package v1.0.0 is now available

June 30, 2017 Jun 30, 2017 06/30/17
Xin Shi
After a month work of stabilizing the code, fixing bugs and adding more samples, we are happy to release the v1.0.0 for our IoT DevKit. You can download the latest package by following the get started guide or from direct link here. And soon we will open source the stacks including firmware, toolchain and all sample projects code. Please check...

Debug your Arduino code with Visual Studio Code

May 27, 2017 May 27, 2017 05/27/17
Xin Shi
Debugging Arduino application is a challenging task as the debugging feature has not been officially supported in Arduino IDE. Many modern IDEs have debug support that developers are used to, using Breakpoints, Steps, Call Stack, Watch, Local/Global Variables, etc. Arduino developers often have to explore many alternative methods and tools...

Get Started with Azure IoT today

May 23, 2017 May 23, 2017 05/23/17
Xin Shi
At //Build 2017, Microsoft Azure made several announcements related to get started development experience with Azure IoT. Based on customers' feedback, most of the developers are focusing on the device-cloud connectivity. Today, you can find more uniformed tutorials about how to connect your devices to Azure IoT and other Azure cloud services...