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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu Core"


nilayshrugged
14 January 2020

How to launch IoT devices – Part 1: Why it takes so long

Internet of Things Article

(This blog post is part of a 5 part series, titled “How to launch IoT devices”. It will cover the key choices and concerns when turning bright IoT ideas into a product in the market. Sign up to the webinar on How to launch IoT devices to get the full story, all in one place.) ...


Galem KAYO
3 November 2019

Roadmap for Ubuntu official support for the Raspberry Pi 4

Internet of Things Article

Update: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 19.10 images for the Raspberry Pi 4 are now available on the Raspberry Pi downloads page. With 19.10 release of Ubuntu Server, Canonical announced official support for the Raspberry Pi 4. The latest board from the Raspberry Pi Foundation sports a faster system-on-a-chip with a processor that uses the Cortex-A7 ...


Sarah Dickinson
28 October 2019

Standardising software to quickly deliver a smart city platform for millions

Internet of Things Article

New York has the highest population density of any city in the United States with over 27,000 people per square mile. The average New Yorker has a commute of 40 minutes, 14 more than the national average. There are over 200 languages spoken in the city. These statistics alone illustrate the challenge of communicating to ...


Galem KAYO
23 July 2019

Getting started with Ubuntu Core – streaming video from a Raspberry Pi

Internet of Things Article

Artificial intelligence relies on machine vision just as much as human intelligence relies on vision. Image sensors are, therefore, crucial for AI applications because of the richness of data that they capture. Capturing and processing video and images at the edge is a capability that intelligent IoT applications need to deliver. In this ...


Galem KAYO
19 July 2019

Robot lifecycle management with Ubuntu

Ubuntu Article

Lifecycle management entails fulfilling changing requirements over time. However, there is a gap that the existing robot development frameworks do not address, making it challenging to tackle system-level requirements (fault tolerance, system safety, maintainability, interoperability or reusability etc…). Ubuntu Core aims at closing this ...


alfonsosanchezbeato
18 June 2019

Your first robotic arm with Ubuntu Core, coming from Niryo

Ubuntu Article

Niryo has built a fantastic 6-axis robotic arm called ‘Niryo One’. It is a 3D-printed, affordable robotic arm focused mainly on educational purposes. Additionally, it is fully open source and based on ROS. On the hardware side, it is powered by a Raspberry Pi 3 and NiryoStepper motors, based on Arduino microcontrollers. When we found ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
1 May 2019

Ubuntu at Internet of Things World 2019

Ubuntu Article

Date: May 13/16Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, USABooth: 1708 Four years ago Canonical launched Ubuntu Core at Internet of Things World. The last four years have seen Ubuntu not only build a name for itself in IoT but also impose itself as a leading Embedded Linux, as highlighted in the latest Eclipse Developer survey. ...


Eric Jensen
26 April 2019

Ubuntu is the #1 embedded Linux for IoT

Internet of Things Article

The results are in! Eclipse.org recently published their 2019 IoT Developer Survey. Ubuntu is again the top choice for embedded & IoT, with our cousins Raspbian and Debian taking 2nd and 3rd respectively. The numbers fall off pretty steeply after that. 😉 For those who create embedded products or solutions, the message couldn’t be more ...


Eric Jensen
16 April 2019

Industrial & Embedded Linux: Looking Ahead

Internet of Things Article

I recently returned from an extended visit to Germany, where my colleagues and I kept busy attending conferences, visiting customers and partners. We travelled around the country, talking to many, many people at dozens of companies about embedded Linux. We confirmed existing trend data, and gained exciting new insights! Now that I’m back, ...


Kyle Fazzari
9 April 2019

Speed up your ROS snap builds

Internet of Things Article

A while back I wrote a post about distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps. If you want to enable some sort of add-on story, you need to have multiple snaps, and that remains the way to do it today with ROS. That approach works, but I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not ...


Canonical
2 April 2019

AWS IoT Greengrass released as a snap

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical and AWS are excited to announce the public release of AWS IoT Greengrass as a snap. AWS IoT Greengrass is software that brings local compute, messaging, data caching, sync, and ML inference capabilities to your IoT device. IoT and embedded developers can now easily install and get started with IoT Greengrass in seconds on ...


Martin Wimpress
22 March 2019

Snapcraft Summit Montreal

Cloud and server Article

Following previous events in New York, Seattle, and London, the fourth Snapcraft Summit is taking place in Montreal, Canada from June 11th to 13th 2019. We have partnered with Travis CI this time and also expanded the scope of the event to three tracks. Snapcraft Summit Snapcraft is the universal app store for Linux that ...