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Exclusive Sneak Peek: The AGENT Smart Watch Emulator and managed .NET code on my wrist! Documents — IOT-A: Internet of Things Architecture. My new test lab « kellabyte. Jan9 I recently started building my own test lab so that I can run much more reproducible tests and have dedicated hardware that has sufficient capacity to do some larger testing and experimentation. I’ve gotten a lot of requests to publish what I’ve built, so here it is! This is my private test lab that I funded myself to continue to improve my skills. This was a necessary step for the kinds of things I work on. The whole setup cost me about $2,000 Canadian dollars so far. 1 Dell PowerEdge Server XS23-SB 4 Node 8x L5420 Quad Core 96GB RAM 4x HD Caddy (about $980 shipped) Each node has 2 Intel® Xeon L5420 2.5ghz quad core CPU’s for 8 cores for a total of 32 cores.Each node has 24GB of RAM for a total of 96GB of RAM.

I’ve plugged in all 8 gigabit LAN controllers into a TP-Link TL-SG1024 24 port gigabit switch ($120). Some questions will probably be raised why the SSD’s I picked do not have very good IOPs. Power cost is reasonable. I am really happy with this setup. Author: Building an open source Nest — Spark Blog. Earlier this week, Google bought Nest, a connected devices company, for $3.2 billion. This might seem like an ungodly sum for a company that makes thermostats and smoke detectors, but it makes absolute sense. Nest’s products are beautifully designed, their team is overflowing with talent, and they were the first company to figure out what the “Internet of Things” means to consumers and deliver products that people actually want. But in order to do this, Nest had to spend millions of dollars on R&D to build the basic infrastructure behind the product.

The high cost made it impossible for anyone but the extremely well-capitalized to enter the market and create connected things. Well, we want to change that. Fair warning - we’re not claiming to have matched the Nest thermostat in a day; far from it. Hardware First, you need hardware. The first thing we did this morning (after whiteboarding our attack plan) was to breadboard the hardware. The Spark Core served as our connected brain. Software. Introducing The Eighth Wonder: Incredible PBX 3.11 for the $35 Raspberry Pi. It’s been a wild ride with the $35 Raspberry Pi®. In late October, sales of the Raspberry Pi topped two million in less than two years. And, if you didn’t already know, the Raspberry Pi makes a near perfect platform for your very own VoIP PBX.

It’s less than a ONE HOUR project! If you’re new to the party, imagine squeezing a 700 mHz ARM processor with 512MB of RAM, 2 USB ports, a 10/100 Ethernet port, an HDMI port, composite video, a separate audio jack, an SDHC card slot, and a micro USB port onto a motherboard the size of a credit card weighing 1.6 ounces. Absolute perfection. Trust us when we say the performance of this tiny computer is nothing short of amazing. <A HREF=" And today we’re pleased to introduce Incredible PBX 3.11.8 for the Raspberry Pi, a turnkey PBX featuring Asterisk® 11 and FreePBX® 2.11 for a near perfect telephony platform.

What’s New in Incredible PBX 3.11.8? To enable overclocking at your own risk, run: raspi-config. 1.