Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Live at SXSW: LaunchPad Tiva C and Exosite”.
Hello, everybody, my name is matt richardson, we’re here at south by southwest create day two and we’re at the ti booth, where they’re doing a tweet up right now, uh they’ve got all kinds of their microcontroller boards. The launch pad they’ve got the beaglebone going. They’Ve got bots on the ground i’m going to. I want to introduce you to adrian who’s, going to tell us about their newest board. That just was just announced yesterday, hey adrian, how you doing you’re doing well good good, tell us about what you got here absolutely so this is the latest addition to the launchpad family, which is our rapid, prototyping microcontroller development ecosystem.
This one in particular, is based on our tiva c tm4c129 board and this one’s pretty interesting because it has integrated ethernet and what that enables is out of the box cloud connectivity, um and with the cloud and the internet of things. That’S a very popular subject nowadays and we want to make that even easier through a 19.99 uh piece of hardware um and that’s what this particular launch pad is high level features. It goes up to 120 megahertz there’s a slew of connectivity options. You’Ve got usb.
I squared c uart, etc um, but the main piece here is that ethernet con connection to enable you to talk to the cloud you tell me about the development environment is the same as the typical launch pad boards yeah great question uh. So it is uh. The same software, so you can program it in either code composer, studio or kyle, but we also have an open source community driven development environment called energia, which is a fork of the wiring uh framework. Thank you very much, no problem.
All right, i’m here with brian from exosite who’s partnering with texas instruments. Can you tell us about what exercise is in the nature of the partnership? Absolutely, like you said we’re from exocite, and we have partnered with texas instruments to basically bring the internet of things m2m to texas instruments, so we’re taking their products. The data that’s coming off their launchpad and being able to take that data to the cloud to exocite, which is us and be able to visualize that data, basically in the cloud and interact with it as well.
So, in a nutshell, that’s basically what we do and i can go ahead and walk through basically a demo that we have set up here. Great that’ll kind of show you what we have. So this is the connected launch pad. This is a product that ti launched on march 6 just a few days ago, and basically they put this together to basically show the internet of things, and we are the out of box experience on this. So, actually, don’t have the form with me right now, but out of the box, you open it up. You go to ti.exosite.com, which is actually our platform running on our servers. Basically, you log in create a free account. So this is all free and you can put in the unique identifier on the back of this board, which is a key login and instantly a dashboard will come up and you can start to interact. Turn on off. Leds see the temperature of the board and you can see this temperature board from anywhere in the world. You can open up the socket to the internet, so basically you can watch this board from your house from europe.
So that’s basically in short term what we can do with texas instruments – and this is what the dashboard looks like um and again this is out of the box. We have. We have basically api libraries all on our website for platform developers to be able to do this all on their own. They don’t have to contact us if they have a product.
They want to connect to the cloud. Absolutely that’s great, open up a free account. This is another board, their msp430 launch pad that has a wi-fi chip modular chip on top. So it’s sending data to the cloud via that wi-fi chip – this is another board, that’s actually ethernet connected, and what we’re showing off here is how we can make these boards interact with each other through the cloud at exo site.
So i’ll give just a quick example of what this can do. So when i heat this temperature probe up above 76 degrees – and this is sending data to the cloud every about 15 seconds so in about 15 seconds once this goes over 76 degrees. Actually, it’s going to turn this led green or from green to red and the temperature is being displayed also on that led screen there. It goes as you can see.
The fan just turned on the led turned red indicating that it’s overheating and this fan will stay on until actually the temperature drops to below 74 degrees, which i can all control, that from the cloud on a widget we can create, and these widgets are very easily Customized and made so great yeah, so that’s in the short. What we can do here at exercise great thanks for showing us .