Internet of Things

All you need to know about building and managing IoT and embedded devices using Ubuntu.

openHAB arrives as a snap!

by Canonical on 9 February 2017

openHAB is a completely open source smart home alternative to Apple Homekit and Samsung SmartThings. Consumers can mix and match hardware and services from...

Who should bear the cost of IoT security: consumers or vendors?

by Canonical on 7 February 2017

Anyone using the internet in Europe and the US on 21st October last year experienced what economists call an externality. It arrived in the form of a massive...

10 crazy IoT ideas that can soon become real

by Maarten Ectors on 6 February 2017

1) Smart cities: revenue generating fountains What if instead of being a cost to cities, fountains become a revenue generator? Crazy idea? Just put the same...

Snapcraft 2.26 has been released

by Sergio Schvezov on 3 February 2017

Hello snapcrafters! We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.26 of snapcraft has been released: https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.26...

The first consumer device to run snaps: Nextcloud box

by Amrisha Prashar on 3 February 2017

The Nextcloud box is a private cloud and IoT solution for home users, giving consumers a way to take back control over their personal data. It’s an...

Run scripts during snapcraft builds with “scriptlets”

by David Callé on 2 February 2017

Please note: this blog post is over 5 years old and is out of date. Scriptlets have been superseded by Overrides. If you have snapped an application, or tried...

Industrial IoT revolution with Raspberry Pi compute module 3

by Maarten Ectors on 31 January 2017

The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a long awaited version of their Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3. The great news is that you get 4GB storage, 1GB memory and...

Ubuntu Core – how to enable aliases for your snaps commands

by David Callé on 28 January 2017

We are happy to announce that a new version of Ubuntu Core, based on snapd 2.21, has been released to the stable snaps channel yesterday. As with any stable...

Award-winning drone technology with Ubuntu

by Amrisha Prashar on 27 January 2017

The market for drones is exploding as businesses and individuals embrace them. The global market for commercial applications of drone technology will balloon...

ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core

by Kyle Fazzari on 27 January 2017

Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago,...

Using the ubuntu-app-platform content interface in app snaps

by Guest on 26 January 2017

This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com...

tutorials.ubuntu.com goes live!

by didrocks on 20 January 2017

We are really proud to announce that Tutorials Ubuntu went live this week! What are ubuntu tutorials? Ubuntu tutorials are a topic-specific walkthroughs,...