Internet of Things

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

IoT Builders webinar series – 2016 recap!

by Amrisha Prashar on 9 December 2016

With it nearing the end of the year we thought we’d take this opportunity to recap on all the ‘IoT builders’ webinar series we’ve hosted in 2016. The series...

Christmas-music-carousel-snap

by Didier Roche on 8 December 2016

Ding ding ding! It’s Christmas time, and as part of the festive competition we’re hosting that asks you to build a seasonal snap on your RaspberryPi…we...

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

by Guest on 8 December 2016

This is a guest post by Olivier Tilloy, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

Jamming with Ubuntu Core

by April Wang on 7 December 2016

We celebrated the launch of Ubuntu Core 16 hackathon, or shall we say Snapathon, that took place in Shenzhen between 26-27th November. The 30+ hour gathering...

Competition: Build a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi

by Amrisha Prashar on 1 December 2016

And our present for you this Christmas is… a competition to create a seasonal snap on your Raspberry Pi 2 or 3! We’d love to see the entries that are the most...

10 desktop snaps written in November

by Didier Roche on 1 December 2016

It’s that time of the month again where we round up our top ten snaps from the last month! For those that may not know, snaps are a new way for developers to...

Ubuntu SDK meets snapcraft

by Benjamin Zeller on 28 November 2016

Everyone who has followed Ubuntu lately for sure stumbled across the snappy technology, which does not only bring the new cross-distro packaging format “snap”...

How to build your own Ubuntu Core image and other documentation add-on

by David Callé on 21 November 2016

2 weeks since the launch of Ubuntu Core 16! Many of you have been asking for help porting Ubuntu Core to new boards, chips or simply building your own images...

How to create snap packages on Qt applications

by Guest on 17 November 2016

This is a guest post by Software engineers Tim Peeters and Timo Jyrinki at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

Making your snaps available to the store using snapcraft

by Sergio Schvezov on 15 November 2016

Now that Ubuntu Core has been officially released, it might be a good time to get your snaps into the Store! Delivery and Store Concepts So let’s start with a...

How to use snaps when collecting IoT data with Predix Time Series

by Guest on 9 November 2016

This is a guest post by Ilya Drabenia, a Technical Lead at Altoros. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com...