The Intel Edison is a computer-on-module that was offered by Intel as a development system for wearable devices and Internet of Things devices. The system was initially announced to be the same size and shape as an SD card and containing a dual-core Intel Quark x86 CPU at 400 MHz communicating via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Intel Edison Kit for Arduino provides the Arduino 1.0 pinout and standard connectors such as a micro USB connected to a UART, a USB OTG port that can be switched between a second micro USB device connector, a standard size USB host Type-A connector, a USD card holder, and a DC power jack. Like an Arduino Uno, the Intel Edison Kit for Arduino makes possible to have 20 digital input/output pins, of which 6 can be used as analog inputs. The Intel Edison has 4 PWM outputs which can be configured via jumpers to any of the 6 pins supporting PWM on the Arduino Uno (pins 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, or 11). The Intel Edison Kit for Arduino is designed to be a hardware and software pin-compatible with Arduino shields designed for the Arduino Uno R3. Digital pins 0 to 13 (and the adjacent AREF and GND pins), Analog inputs 0 to 5, the power header, ICSP header, and the UART port pins (0 and 1), are all in the same locations as on the Arduino Uno R3.
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This project is inspired by the Mars Curiosity Rover, I don't expect this rover to make it to Mars! but you can mimic it and implement some cool features using the Intel Edison board. Having said that ,on mother Earth you can find industrial applications for this, to monitor hazardous condition.
Follow this project to monitor and create an auto control plant watering system for your house plants. Monitor the following environmental variables using Xively.com to keep your plants healthy through the summer/winter season
When I attended Makerfaire Bay Area, California, a couple of years ago , I heard a talk by the folks at myDevices, who build an IoT platform called– Cayenne, which has an online IoT dashboard that takes most of the complication out of creating hardware-oriented programming, originally it worked with just the Raspberry Pi, and is now available for the Arduino as well. In addition, you also have a feature where you can use MQTT to post sensor data to Cayenne IoT dashboard, this means we can use the Intel Edison to post sensor data as shown in the picture above. For more info about Cayenne check out the documentation at https://mydevices.com/cayenne/docs/
We have an old clock, the idea here is to upcycle the clock and add some smart capabilities to it using the Intel Edison. Read more about this award winning project..