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Products => Crowd Funded Projects => Topic started by: JacquesBBB on February 02, 2015, 11:44:17 am

Title: Blynk. Build an IOS or Android app to control Arduino, RasbPi, ESP8266 over eth.
Post by: JacquesBBB on February 02, 2015, 11:44:17 am

Hello all,

I have seen this project on Kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/167134865/blynk-build-an-app-for-your-arduino-project-in-5-m (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/167134865/blynk-build-an-app-for-your-arduino-project-in-5-m)

Its look quite promissing, as it allows to construct a dedicated  IOS or Android App  to control
a arduino like board, RaspberryPi and maybe also ESP8266 over ethernet in an easy way.

What do you think ?

Title: Re: Blynk. Build an IOS or Android app to control Arduino, RasbPi, ESP8266 over eth.
Post by: Laurynas on February 02, 2015, 01:07:13 pm

backed. let's see what will they build :)

Title: Re: Blynk. Build an IOS or Android app to control Arduino, RasbPi, ESP8266 over eth.
Post by: Mechanical Menace on February 14, 2015, 02:18:16 pm

I can imagine users outgrowing this way too quickly to justify it's cost. The Android SDK works well and has decent libraries. I've never had to touch an iOS device but I'd bet their SDK is just as good, maybe better in some ways, maybe worse in others...

If you're using a RasPi and learning to use Python on it you may as well use something like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hipipal.qpyplus&hl=en_GB or this https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/jonathan-hosmer/id485729875?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 and if you're using C/C++ why not just use the SDK?