Pinoccio - A Complete Ecosystem for Building the Internet of Things

This is super exciting for anyone who has wanted to hack on hardware but always got hung up on stuff like getting wifi shields, hooking batteries, etc. before even getting to coding. I'm getting one of the beta units (I've known one of the founders for a while) and am psyched to start hacking on it.<p>As a hardware noob, the promise of the arduino has been that you can build anything(!) with it - which is also the downside. I've always felt like the setup to get pieces of hardware battery powered and communicating with each other was much higher of a hurdle than it should have been and mostly lost interest before getting to build what I actually wanted. Plus, an arduino board + wifi shield + whatever else makes it super bulky.<p>This feels like an arduino with smart defaults - like a Rails for hardware.

Super excited about this. I have a couple ideas I've been rattling around that would be much easier to pull with boards that already have wifi/mesh over trying to get a bunch of xbees/arduino parts.

Pumped about this as well, it's the perfect packaging to quickly experiment with distributed sensor grids and be affordable to a hobbyist... pretty sure we'll see some cool "green" gardening (optimized watering), thermal/heating/cooling, power usage, farm monitoring, all sorts of great things built on this!

I've been following Pinoccio's progress for awhile now, great to see them launch. The all in one package is great for sensor setups that in the past required Arduino, wifi shields, batteries, and a slew of backend tech to keep track of the data. Looking forward to hacking on my 2 pack.