Introduction
The Internet of things is nothing new. It is an evolutionary next step in the machine to machine communication paradigm. With an ever increasing number of 'things' at our disposal the need for connected 'things' has grown rapidly. However with increasing options comes added complexity which introduces steep learning curves and more importantly more confusion. What devices should I use? What cloud platform will best server my interest? I am new to IoT where should I start? Those are the question that would linger in any one who would dare to wonder in to the internet of Things. We, at magicblocks.io have put some magic to work to make the life of both the newcomer and the professional one step easier.
What is magicblocks.io ?
Magicblocks.io is the IoT platform by A&T Labs for building IoT applications with minimal hassle. Tried and tested over the years the lateset release of magicblocks.io will connect to more devices and do more thanks to the open source project Node-Red. magicblocks.io is a launchpad for learning and prototyping your internet of things. It consists of
- Hardware suite made up of
- Development boards
- Prototyping kits for sensors & actuators
- Cloud platform made up of
- Drag and drop editor to easily cook up your solutions
- Dashboards to visualize your data
- Data storage
- API services Everything has been designed to make the learning curve as shallow as possible for the newcomer and as flexible as possible for the advanced user.
Arduino IDE and Magicblocks.io also can create projects on this. Because of that it has inbuilt wifi, therefore can directly connect the wifi router and can use for IoT projects
- Microcontroller: ESP-8266EX(ESP12F)
- Operating Voltage: 3.3V
- Digital I/O Pins: 11
- Analog Input Pins 1(Max input: 3.2V)
- Clock Speed: 80MHz/160MHz
- Flash: 4M bytes
Sensors ,development board (MagicZero ) and other electronics items contained starter kit for beginners to IoT and Arduino. This will consist of all the items for the "IoT" unit that has been included in the GCE A/L ICT subject.
- MagicZERO development board – 01
- Breadboard(Medium ) – 01
- Jumper Cables(M2M)-20
- Jumper Cables(F2F)-20
- Temperature & Humidity Sensor Module-01
- Door open/close Sensor – 01
- Flame Sensor Module – 01
- Soil Moisture Sensor Module – 01
- 3.3v Buzzer – 01
- LED- 06
- RGB LED – 01
- LDR – 01
- Push button – 04
- Resistors(1K,10K,220ohm)-09
- Relay Module – 01
- Capacitors (100nf,10uf)-04
- 20K Analog Pot – 01
- Transistors(BC547)-02
- Micro USB cable-01
- Magicblcoks.io IoT Developer Laptop Sticker-01
Any ioT creation you want to connect with nodes without any coding and your project running in the cloud platform the development board you use will not have much memory or more processing capability, unless you want to create Image Processing, Character Recognizing, DB Handling, you can create any project on it.
You can also create attractively online dashboards online without any coding
In Magicblocks you can also create Web based-dashboards attractively for your IoT designs without any codes. You need to connect the necessary widgets to the dashboard that you want and to configure the settings you need to reach them. Then, you can access your Online Dashboard from the dashboard menu on your dashboard, where you can click on the URL in the browser to access the Dashboard via any Device Device such as Smart Phone, Tablet, PC.
