raspberry pi Archives - Don Kasprzak

Recently the Raspberry Pi group has released a new installer for all Pi devices called The Raspberry Pi Imager. This is a step in the right direction for the platform. Yes, believe it or not the Raspberry Pi is a platform.

When downloading new versions of Raspbian or Noobs the process for many users was cumbersome at best. This removes the need for new users to learn Etcher. By itself Etcher is a fine utility. I do not plan on deleting Etcher from my machine.

Imager is just a more polished version that pulls all latest releases in the background. I believe this utility helps enhance the Pi platform. Just look at how we pull Windows updates and deploy across organizations.

The new Imager makes life simple when crossing multiple computers: Windows, Mac, or Linux. Presto!

The emerging IoT developer community received a much anticipated jolt of news when Amazon finally announced new enterprise services dedicated to the AWS IoT cloud launch at their 2015 re:Invent conference.
This new AWS IoT cloud service will permit web based interfaces to manage IoT events from various devices: sensors, wearables, drones, and of course mobile tools and apps around an established AWS ecosystem.

The AWS IoT cloud emerges as Amazon’s long term platform following the SalesForce Thunder platform announced last month. Both vendors look to establish key IoT cloud solutions in the corporate enterprise space. They join Cisco’s IoT, Microsoft’s Azure IoT, Oracle’s Movintracks along side GE’s energy launch of Current IoT. The race is now on to process millions of data events from light bulbs to dishwashers and cars over the MQTT protocol and process those messages in their respective clouds.

Amazon is leveraging 11 services around their IoT Cloud strategy to include existing AWS services: Kinesis, Redshift, S3, SNS, SQS, ML, DynamoDB and Lambda. A key investment to this strategy was the recent acquisition of 2lemetry, a IoT enterprise company tuned for transforming raw data from IoT devices onto their ThingFabric platform.