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As an intern at Electric Imp, I have had the opportunity to familiarize myself with one of the greatest challenges of creating a WiFi-capable device. Power. Power consumption limits WiFi to devices like your phone and laptop that you can always plug in to the wall to charge. But what about low-power devices – watches, […]

One of the projects I spent time on during my summer internship at Electric Imp took the power of the Imp, added the pizazz of LCD screens, and resulted in a couple cool little devices. Displays are cool in any context, but being able to update them wirelessly through the Imp opens the door for […]

Hi, everyone. Summer’s here and the time is right for… an Electric Imp update. As always, there are interesting things happening around here so let’s get caught up. Happy 1st Birthday to the Imp!Today marks the first anniversary since our powerful and pioneering little imp card was released – a milestone we’re incredibly proud of. […]

The Imp gets more powerful all the time as our embedded team adds features with each new Imp OS release. As we saw last week, the latest Imp OS is particularly exciting with features like the ability to turn WiFi on and off, faster WiFi join, and more memory for user programs. One of the […]

Electric Imp guest blogger Richie Zeng is a UC Berkeley student majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. At this year’s Big Hack, an annual 24 hour competitive hackathon between UC Berkeley and Stanford University CS students, our team built something that our 8-year-old selves would have only dreamed of having – which ended up winning […]