Kickstarter Crowd Funding a Robotic Rebellion
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immediate release
5th
December
2012
Kickstarter
Crowd Funding a Robotic Rebellion Starting with Light
Switch
International based Hamilton company MEA Mobile today announced funding for the next generation of its breakthrough WiFi controller will be crowd sourced through Kickstarter. The goal is to enable easy hardware connection to mobile platforms. The full project specs can be viewed at: http://kck.st/VeCPlL
iGloLED controller will compete with products such as the popular open source Arduino kit. “We’re the solution for a packaged control platform which works with mobile devices.” add Seymour, “If you want to connect electronics to your iPhone or Surface tablet we’re your go to.” The goal of the iGloLED project on Kickstarter is to make it easy for developers to hack. The platform uses a simple http command interface so people can access the hardware through a web browser such as Safari or programmatically languages such as Java, JavaScript and Objective C. The kit which will include an SDK to simplify use with third party development environments such as Eclipse, Visual Studio or Xcode. Other products in this space include the Linux powered Gumstix and the Raspberry Pi, an ARM based single board computer developed in the UK.
• iGloLED is Funding a 12 Volt Controller on
Kickstarter http://kck.st/VeCPlL
• The WiFi Based
Controller Will Have an SDK with Example Code
• A New
12v Development Kit is Available for $99 Compared to $299
for Current Range The Kickstarter project features
funding options for Windows, Android, iPhone & Blackberry
development libraries. “We’re hoping all options are
funded,” says Bruce Seymour, Managing Director of MEA
Mobile. “We’ll develop for where the market tells us to.
We’ve recently put up a Malbolge option, if it’s funded,
we’ll do it.” Tweet This: $99 Dev Kit for #iGloLEDset
positions the robots to rebel. http://kck.st/VeCPlL
“iGloLED will accelerate development in the machine to
machine space,” says Seymour, “Science fiction is now in
your palm.” Future applications for the controller include
a broad range of low voltage gadgets from electronic cars,
UAV’s, aquarium products, marine solutions and more. “In
the future our controller will be able to be used with next
generation products such as the shatterproof, plastic bulbs
recently developed at Wake Forest University in North
Carolina.” A demo video is viewable at:
http://youtu.be/-_7quf88tLQ Additional information is
available at: www.meamobile.com/igloledset-12v About MEA
Mobile
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MEA Mobile makes apps and is best known
for advanced video processing algorithms as showcased in
iSupr8, CineBleach and Part. The company offers contract
development services for iOS, Android and Windows 8 in
addition to backend development, and mobile web. The company
is actively expanding with offices also in Auckland and New
Haven, Connecticut,
USA.