Backer Carey C. used the Onion Omega Dash to build remote sensors and controls for his gate and garage doors. This update will give you all the details of how he did it. It's pretty nifty!
It's easy to think of EMIT as a 'hardware project.' Even for us. But the past week has been full of stark reminders that there's a lot more to IoT that just the hardware! The good news is that, after a fairly stressful week, we have improved EMIT's firmware significantly and released an open source MQTT monitoring tool that you might find helpful when implementing your own projects.
One week left! After several questions and much discussion, we are delighted to announce that we will now be publishing our step-by-step tutorials in both MicroPython and C/C++ (using Arduino IDE). We want to make it as easy as possible for you to develop EMIT code in your preferred programming language and IDE. This update also includes a list of tutorials that we plan to release by the time we EMIT ships to backers.
The fully assembled EMIT boards were shipped out to us today. They should arrive early next week, and we are
standing by to inspect, test, and pack them before sending them along to Crowd
Supply's warehouse. In the meantime, we invite you to check out the EMIT Developer Wiki that we published yesterday!