![]() ![]() The final step for this project is to move the Relay to a remote location controlled by an Arduino endpoint. It's also very low cost, flexible and perfect for an Arduino class end-point device to handle. It's the tried and trusted technology behind the TV, DVD, etc and so on. This will be detailed in the Edge:Bit Kickstarter but for now I want to demonstrate another highly effective and even lower cost wireless option - Infrared. The production version will have more of the standardised connector options and also a variant supporting transparent pass-thru via HS-12 433Mhz modules making wireless configurations effortless to deploy. The Edge:Bit shown in the video's is only a prototype. The Edge:bit is the perfect companion widget to the Virtual Breadboard Alexa Skill and with a bit of luck the plan is to launch it on Kickstarter with a bit of help from one of the Hackster Kickstarter packages! Getting out the Sandbox with Edge:Bit ( 2mins 20s) Enter the Virtual Breadboard Skill for Alexa! ![]() Many VBB users are Arduino enthusiasts and my sense is implementing and hosting Alexa is beyond what they can invest into a casual project. However despite the excellent materials available it's not totally trivial to implement and especially maintain your own Alexa infrastructure. ![]() Sure you can roll your own Alexa solutions and there are many projects here on hackster that can help you do just that. Many benefits flow from participating in the UWP ecosystem including access to Microsoft Windows Store, IoT Core for Raspberry Pi, Windows 10 S low cost education and home controllers and of course cloud services such as Alexa become a natural fit. The goal is create a modern App and cloud platform suitable for integrating with the wealth of emerging IoT cloud services so as to build a more robust business model. Hence for the last several years I have been migrating the 'Classic' (WinForm) version to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). VBB/VBB4Arduino 'Classic' serves the self education makers market but technology changes so fast it's expensive to maintain. ![]() Virtual Breadboard (VBB) is a circuit modelling and virtualization application that I have been developing literally forever. ![]()
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