Internet of Things archives
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Canonical joins the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee
By Kyle Fazzari, 28 August 2019
We at Canonical care deeply about robotics. We firmly believe that robots based on Linux are cheaper to develop, more flexible, more secure, and faster to...
A guide to developing Android apps on Ubuntu
By Alex Cattle, 27 August 2019
Android is the most popular mobile operating system and is continuing to grow its market share. IDC expects that Android will have 85.5% of the market by...
Snaps help Xibo rekindle its relationship with Linux
By Sarah Dickinson, 27 August 2019
Sometimes, relationships just don’t work out. At first, it seemed that Xibo and Linux were made for each other. Xibo had a popular open source digital signage...
Jupyter looks to distro-agnostic packaging for the democratisation of installation
By Sarah Dickinson, 21 August 2019
When users of your application range from high school students to expert data scientists, it’s often wise to avoid any assumptions about their system...
How to add a linter to ROS 2
By Ted Kern, 21 August 2019
A well configured linter can catch common errors before code is even run or compiled. ROS 2 makes it easy to add linters of your choice and make them part of...
Linting ROS 2 Packages with mypy
By Ted Kern, 15 August 2019
One of the most common complaints from developers moving into large Python codebases is the difficulty in figuring out type information, and the ease by which...
Digital signage platform Xibo launches as a snap
By Canonical, 31 July 2019
The open source digital signage platform, Xibo, is now available as a snap – the universal Linux app packaging format. Xibo provides a comprehensive suite of...
A shift to the Linux app store experience
By Alex Cattle, 30 July 2019
Linux software developers historically have faced a number of challenges including fragmentation, distribution complexity and a lack of metrics into the...
Edge computing monitoring with Kubernetes
By Galem KAYO, 29 July 2019
This blog demonstrates how to easily deploy monitoring tools at the edge using Kubernetes. In IoT scenarios, such a deployment brings the benefits of privacy,...
Mir support for Wayland
By Alan Griffiths, 24 July 2019
What is Mir, what is Wayland, do I care? Shells for graphical interfaces come in many forms, from digital signage and kiosks that just show a single full...
Getting started with Ubuntu Core – streaming video from a Raspberry Pi
By Galem KAYO, 23 July 2019
Artificial intelligence relies on machine vision just as much as human intelligence relies on vision. Image sensors are, therefore, crucial for AI...
Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps
By Sarah Dickinson, 23 July 2019
In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on...