[Swansea Hackspace] Spark IO

[Gerrit Niezen]

I got the chance to meet the team that developed the Spark platform at ThingsCon in Berlin this year - a friendly group of people! They gave every ThingsCon attendee a free Spark Core in their welcome pack, and ran a workshop where they gave away even more free stuff (relay shields etc.)

To be honest I haven’t played around with my Spark Core that much as my Arduino works just fine. From what I’ve heard the compile-upload cycle on the Spark can be quite long because it has to send the updated code over WiFi.

Interestingly, when Spark first tried to get funding on Kickstarter back in 2012 it failed, but when they relaunched in 2013 they got $567,968 for their $10k goal.

On 7 Oct 2014, at 14:06, Emyr Morris <em at preseli.com> wrote:

> I had looked at them in the past and dismissed them as something I would buy due to the fact they are tied to their cloud service - when they first floated the idea I was quite excited by it, but then the experience with Violet made me wary of anything that is tied to a service provider.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabaztag
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> On 7 October 2014 13:45, Sharon Mitchell <sharon at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 13:34:01 +0100
> Emyr Morris <em at preseli.com> wrote:
> 
> > Been reading up a bit about the Spark IO - this could be a fun build
> > night
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> Yes it's the Instructables Build Night for November and we have
> applied, notifications due out on the 9th.
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