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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 […]

Electric Imp recently sent a crack team of makers down to Santa Monica to hack at the AT&T Internet of Things Hackathon and Accelerator Series. Over the course of 14 hours we soldered, dremeled, and coded our way to a connected terrarium, and then found a nice kale plant to live in our terrarium of […]

Hey everyone, just a few things from the ever expanding world of Electric Imp to update you on before the holidays take hold… Come Hack With Electric Imp and New Relic As you are no doubt aware from previous posts, hacking is an integral part of our culture. We stop what we’re doing every few months […]