Here are some resources we’ve found handy, and thought you might too. If you know of a great resource we should consider including, let us know on the Contact page.
Smart Home
Philips Hue Developer Program – Create and distribute your own apps that interface with Philips Hue smart lighting system.
Zigbee Alliance Standards for Developers – Open source standards for wireless connectivity between IoT devices.
Drones
FAA Drone Zone – Register your drone online here if it weighs between 0.55lbs and 55lbs.
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Oculus – A leader in Virtual Reality headsets.
Vive – From HTC is a top player in VR headsets
Robotics
Single-board Computing
Arduino – Maker of industry-standard open source boards and shields. Integrated Development Environment, Forums, Tutorials, and much more. A keystone in single-board computing.
Adafruit – Manufacturer of a vast array of single-board computing products. Also supplies software libraries, tutorials, forums, and much more. You can’t do single-board computing and not run into Adafruit.
Raspberry Pi – Creators of the $25 single-board computer – This charitable organization hosts a huge community of makers and hackers. They have all the software and documentation you need to start using your own credit-card sized full-on computer.
Programming
Github – The place to store all your code, share with others, and build on the shoulders of giants.
IFTTT – If This Then That – Get your IoT project talking to the rest of the world
Node.js – The easiest web server software you’ll ever use
Visual Studio Code – A development environment so good and so extensible you won’t believe it’s free.
Free API’s
Dark Sky API – Very easy to use and very detailed weather API. See a how-to in this post of our DIY Weather Clock series.
Mapquest Developer – A collection of 20 different API’s for maps and traffic information. See how we used the Static Map API.
Other Valuable Resources
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