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Last week we launched a survey to solicit opinions about open source foundations and the general Eclipse community. A key thing we hope to accomplish with this survey is to gauge how people perceive the Eclipse brand? The Eclipse community has substantially grown and change over the last number of...

Tim O’Reilly use to talk a lot about encouraging people to ‘ Work on stuff that matters‘. Unfortunately, the IoT industry is often not the best example of this principle. The twitter feed ‘ Internet of Shit‘ chronicles IoT solutions that should never have been built. For IoT to be...

Next year’s Eclipse simultaneous release name has been chosen by the community. In 2018, the simultaneous release name will be Eclipse Photon! Personally, I think it’s an awesome name #EclipsePhoton. I can’t wait to see the design we come up with for the official release! I’m sure Kat Hirsch has...

We are planning another Eclipse IoT Day, this time in San Jose, CA on March 20. It will be co-located with Eclipse Converge and Devoxx US. In San Jose, the schedule will be highlighting many of the new projects and participants in the Eclipse IoT community, including: A session on...

The micro:bit is one of the best IoT prototyping platforms I’ve come across in the past few months. The main MCU is a Nordic nRF51822 with 16K RAM and 256K Flash. A Freescale KL26Z is used for conveniently implementing a USB interface as well as a mass storage driver so...

As we are wrapping up the year, it is a good time to reflect on all the great things that have happened to the Eclipse IoT community this year. Eclipse IoT in 4 figures The 26 different open-source projects that are hosted at Eclipse IoT total 2.3M+ lines of code...

2016 has been an incredible year for the IoT industry and the pace of innovation looks like it will accelerate in 2017. Last week I participated in a webinar, organized by Canonical, on the IoT trends to watch in 2017. It was a really good discussion, so feel free to...

A couple of days ago, Google announced that they were essentially rebranding Brillo to Android Things (I do love that name, by the way!), and finally opening it for a Developer Preview. There are a few things I already like very much in Android Things: It is already supported on...

The third edition of the Open IoT Challenge officially started one week ago. More than 80 teams have submitted their entries and are now in the running to win the Open IoT Challenge 3.0! Participants have about three months to complete their solution and show the world how open source...

At EclipseCon Europe I spent a few minutes chatting with István Ráth from IncQuery Labs. He was demoing a pretty awesome set of development tools for safety-critical domains (here: railway inter-locking system), and showing how to use them in combination with some cool Eclipse IoT Projects such as Eclipse Paho...