ICYMI – Adafruit IoT Monthly: IoT Vulnerability Disclosure, Decorative Dorm Lights, and more!

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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


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