Puck.js - JavaScript microcontroller

MatjaLipu

A JavaScript microcontroller you can program wirelessly - perfect for IoT devices! No software needed so get started in seconds.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/puckjs-the-ground-breaking-bluetooth-beacon

EvertorN

Looks promising.. Did you back them?

I'm just trying to come up with some useful scenarios I would use puck.js to justify a purchase :P

MatjaLipu

I have also backed espruino pico. It's like Arduino running JavaScript. Puck.js is much more. Having BLE, NFC, it can be beacon, programmable button or simply just microcontroller with GPIOs.

jorden

I like it! Not sure yet what to use it for... but it's very interesting. 

Nattelip

@MatjaLipu : what can i do for practical sensible things with this puck ? 

MatjaLipu

From link provided.

Puck.js can measure light, temperature, magnetic fields and capacitance, can control Infrared devices, produce any colour light and has a clever tactile switch that turns the Puck into one big button.

Puck.js contains 8 easy to use pins on a 0.1" pitch (6x GPIO, GND and VCC 

GeurtDijker

Nice! Thanks!
I Pledged for two.... Have something to do at the long dark evenings ;-) 

Nattelip

@MatjaLipu i have experience with netmf and gadgeteer boards and modules but not with arduino. Can the espruino be a motherboard for the 2 modules nrf905 provided by athom in the geek edition ? then i could use them they are still sleeping in my cabinet not knowing what to do with them. i cant find any 433 projects with netmf and gadgeteers, and the links on google with arduino  like boards and 433 are overwhelming plenty.

http://www.dx.com/nl/p/nrf905-433-868-915mhz-wireless-module-w-antenna-green-2-7-3-3v-222915?tc=EUR&gclid=CjwKEAjw-_e7BRDs97mdpJzXwh0SJABSdUH0R2cjeNGfPeaWcCJ3eBCeLHi7QiQk-V0wjCbOksWe8BoCJPrw_wcB#.V360t_mLSM8

MatjaLipu

It looks like Espruino supports http://www.espruino.com/NRF905. Haven't tested it, tho.

MatjaLipu

On the second thought puck probably doesn't support nfr905, since it has only 6 gpios. Hoverer they claim it works well with ESP8266

Nattelip

i would like to make a scope for interpretation of 433 signals, the once promised raw 433 signal visualizer in homey  can still take a few months or years to surface. if i start with arduino boards i have to dive in c/c++ language with which i am not so familiar with, the nice thing of espruino is javascript. if not all pins are used is not such a big problem. i (domotica modules as zwave controlers and other serial trancievers l ) use often only 3 pins of rs232 or rs484 

i thought of conncting it to the espruino not the puck.

example of scope 

http://jeelabs.net/projects/cafe/wiki/Decoding_the_Oregon_Scientific_V2_protocol

AndyWilde

Nattelip said:

i would like to make a scope for interpretation of 433 signals, the once promised raw 433 signal visualizer in homey  can still take a few months or years to surface. if i start with arduino boards i have to dive in c/c++ language with which i am not so familiar with, the nice thing of espruino is javascript. if not all pins are used is not such a big problem. i (domotica modules as zwave controlers and other serial trancievers l ) use often only 3 pins of rs232 or rs484 

i thought of conncting it to the espruino not the puck.

example of scope 

http://jeelabs.net/projects/cafe/wiki/Decoding_the_Oregon_Scientific_V2_protocol

A Cheap scope if you want 

http://www.banggood.com/DSO138-DIY-Digital-Oscilloscope-Kit-SMD-Soldered-13803K-Version-With-Transparent-Acrylic-Housing-p-1051616.html

But all I did was run the pin from my 433mhz decoder to my sound card and record the response,  much easier

Nattelip

@AndyWilde : i have seen that solution to with the soundcard and wave utilty to somewhere.  I am not that familiar with soldering and pins 

Nattelip

the problem with the puck is i dont believe bluetooth makes a mesh network like zwave and zigbee.  And if this version of bluetooth is compatible with homey. homey has blutooth 4.0 whatever that is, the puck 5.0