Electric Imp guest bloggers Bunnie Curtis and Andrew Lim are from IFTTT, a service than enables users to make powerful connections with one simple statement: “If this then that.” We love music at IFTTT and being the office DJ is a coveted role. Unfortunately, our water boiler also likes to play music. Every time it […]

Before everyone from Electric Imp heads out for the holidays, we have some joyful new IDE enhancements – and an Internet connected meat thermometer – to tell you about. A new search bar integrated at the top of the IDE sidebar will now enable you to look for devices by name or ID, and we’ve […]

In a blog post a few weeks ago, we talked about the role hacking plays at Electric Imp. In short, we (a) love to hack and (b) actively encourage hacking within our fast growing community of makers and inventors. We recently brought these two loves together at Hack With Us, a day-long Electric Imp hackathon […]

Our recent OS release 27 update highlighted a variety of new features, including pin-triggered pulse generator (ptpg). This post will shed light on how ptpg, intended for use with triac circuits, can be utilized to control the brightness of an incandescent bulb. The ptpg feature lets you set up a one-shot digital output pulse, triggered […]

At Electric Imp, we’re getting ready to retire our old friend the Blueprint (or Planner as it’s sometimes called), and we want to make the transition is as seamless as possible for the developers who are still using Blueprint functionality. We’ve been hinting that this change is coming from a few months, and on December […]

This week we are rolling out release 27 of the Electric Imp firmware, the mini-operating system that lives on the imp and runs your Squirrel code. There’s no overarching theme to this release, per se – it’s a collection of improvements and/or fixes all over the system. The most fundamental change in this release is […]