Blog posts written by Guest

Guest
25 September 2017

UbuCon Europe 2017

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This is a guest post by Marius Quabeck. I’ve been to many Ubuntu related events before, but what surprises me every time about UbuCons is the outstanding work by the community organising these events. Earlier this month, I was in Paris for UbuCon Europe 2017. I had quite high expectations about the event/location and the ...

Guest
20 July 2017

Robot development made easy with Husarion CORE2-ROS & Ubuntu – part 2

Internet of Things Article

This is the second post in a series of two by guest bloggers from Husarion; Domink Nowak and Michal Zieliński. The first blog can be read here. This blog picks up on why Husarion use Ubuntu… Ubuntu has a very wide collection of packages, both in official repositories and supplied by third-parties. For example, the Robot Operating System ...

Guest
12 July 2017

Robot development made easy with Husarion CORE2-ROS running Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

This is the first in a series of two posts by guest blogger; Dominik Nowak, CEO at Husarion. We’ve seen many breakthroughs happening in the IT industry over the last decade. Arguably the most meaningful one on the consumer side was the adoption of smartphones and mobile development. What’s the next big thing, now that ...

Guest
28 June 2017

Build, test, and publish snap packages using snapcraft

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This is a guest post by Ricardo Feliciano, Developer Evangelist at CircleCI. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-iot@canonical.com. Snapcraft, the package management system fighting for its spot at the Linux table, re-imagines how you can deliver your software. A new set of cross-distro tools are available ...

Guest
14 June 2017

Project Sputnik: crazy idea to community driven developer systems

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This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-iot@canonical.com Five years ago, I pitched a crazy idea to an internal innovation team at Dell: what if Dell took its highest end laptop, pre-loaded Ubuntu on it, included all the needed drivers and ...

Guest
16 May 2017

DataArt release new version of Alexa Virtual Device for Raspberry Pi

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by DataArt. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com This project aims to provide the ability to bring Alexa to any Linux device including embedded systems like Raspberry Pi or DragonBoard boards. The binary release is packed into a snap package, which is a perfect ...

Guest
10 May 2017

Crowd funding the Radio access technology

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Ebrahim Bushehri, CEO Lime Microsystem. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com The next step towards open source cellular networks for all At Lime we have a mission to democratize wireless networks and to bring disruptive technology to the cellular market which wil ...

Guest
19 April 2017

FTC and D-Link

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Anyone who doubts that governments are closing in on hardware vendors in a bid to shut down IoT security vulnerabilities needs to catch up with the Federal Trade Commission’s recent lawsuit again ...

Guest
17 April 2017

Industrial IoT: manage and control remote assets

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Florian Hoenigschmid, Director of azeti. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com When you make a phone call, watch TV or wash your hands, you probably won’t associate this with terms like predictive maintenance, equipment damage, downtime or Service Level Agreements ...

Guest
3 April 2017

The MirAL story

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This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software Developer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com I’m Alan Griffiths and I’m a software developer. Being a software developer means I deal with a lot of problems that are rarely appreciated by non-developers. This is a story ab ...

Guest
29 March 2017

Making snap packages of photogrammetry software

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Alberto Mardegan, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Some time ago I got vaguely interested into photogrammetry, that is the reconstruction of a 3D model out of a set of plain 2D photographs. I just thought that it was ...

Guest
28 March 2017

Battlestar solution

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Forecasts suggest that by 2020, 20bn to 30bn IoT devices will be connected to networks worldwide. Almost certainly, the tactics employed by Colonel Saul Tigh in this clip from episode 201 of Batt ...