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Imagination fires up Kickstarter to fund Ci40 IoT kit
The influence of crowdfunding. Imagination has gone the route of KickStarter to fund a
By Alun Williams, Electronics Weekly, Nov. 23, 2015 –
Imagination describes it as a "complete IoT kit that includes all the hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure needed to quickly build a wireless IoT system".
Driven by the desire to change the status quo of the Internet of Things market and to help the hardware and software community move ahead, we have created the ultimate IoT-in-a-box development kit for connecting devices between each other and to the cloud.
The Creator Ci40 IoT kit includes not only the hardware building blocks needed to quickly prototype a wireless IoT system from scratch but most importantly the open source software frameworks, the network stacks and the cloud connectivity capabilities required to securely connect and authenticate devices to the cloud.
The kit includes:
- The Creator Ci40 development board with a 550 MHz dual-core, dual-threaded MIPS CPU running OpenWrt (802.11ac 2x2, Bluetooth 4.1, 802.15.4, fast Ethernet)
- Two battery-powered MikroElektronika Clicker boards featuring a dedicated 6LoWPAN chip and the mikroBUS socket for adding sensors
- Three MikroElektronika Click boards for measuring temperature, detecting motion, and controlling a relay (other Click boards are available from MikroElektronika)