Congratulations to Eusebiu Burlacu and Sebastian Pascu from Gheorghe Asachi University of Iasi, Romania, for their tie for first prize in the Digilent Design Contest Europe 2015. Their chipKIT WF32 based Health and Security Cloud System was designed to process a patient's ECG signal, as well as monitor patient activity, and transmit this information to a doctor via Exosite's cloud-enabled data platform. Learn more about it on Instructables.

Darryl is at it again, with a new Android app called PIC32USB, providing OTG-supported phones/tablets with a hardwired communication to a PIC32 microcontroller. Use any of the 24 buttons to send messages to the PIC32 device, customize any button to change the string sent to the device, and send/recieve data to/from the device using a chat-like interface. Check out his sample code to test it out on your OTG-supported mobile device and your supported PIC32-based board. Darryl

As a follow-on to a previous post about the "Man Cave Sign," we wanted to share with you the portion that used Bluetooth and Android Apps. This tutorial by Darryl Gardner will show you how you can use the two apps he wrote (on the Google Play Store) along with an HC-05 or HC-06 Bluetooth module and a chipKIT-based device to transmit and receive data to and from the Bluetooth Module and the PIC32 MCU device. He also provides some sample

In this blogpost and this Instructable from Digilent, check out how you can control your chipKIT WF32 from a remote computer with internet access. Your chipKIT WF32 must be connected to a network, but other than that, all you need is an SD card for your WF32. Check out the tutorial for all the details to make your chipKIT WF32 a

I don't know about you, but I'm never happy with my lawn sprinkler schedule. In Austin, it can rain till my garage floods one week, then return to the typical four-year drought conditions with 100°F+ temperatures for the rest of the summer. As we progress through the drought stages, we go from being allowed to water whenever we want to twice a week to once a week. I also find that the consumer-grade zone controllers have really crappy user interfaces, they are often limit you to either an "every X days" pattern or watering on specific days of the week (but not both), and they tend to limited in how many events are