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Welcome to the Blues Developer Blog

Technical articles on everything in the Internet of Things, from Arduino to Zephyr. Written by developers, for developers.

Level Up Your IoT Fleet with the Latest from Notehub banner

November 21, 2025

Level Up Your IoT Fleet with the Latest from Notehub

A quick tour of the latest Notehub features built for IoT developers and fleet administrators.

  • Notehub
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations

November 17, 2025

Introducing the Notecard ESP-IDF Component

We're excited to announce the release of the ESP-IDF component for Notecard.

  • Announcement
Alex Bucknall
Alex BucknallStaff Developer Experience Engineer
October 15, 2025

Introducing Blues Expert - AI Tools for Notecard and Notehub Development

Amplify your AI development workflows with Blues Expert MCP server.

  • Announcement
Alex Bucknall
Alex BucknallStaff Developer Experience Engineer
October 8, 2025

Enhancing Arduino with FreeRTOS—A Hands-On Tutorial

A hands-on guide for enhancing Arduino-based firmware with FreeRTOS, with examples using Blues Notecard and external sensors

  • Arduino
  • FreeRTOS
Zak Fields
Zak FieldsPrincipal Engineer
September 22, 2025

Insights from the 2025 Blues IoT Developer Survey

The responses are in! Here's what we learned from this year's IoT developer survey.

  • Community
  • Survey
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
September 12, 2025

Simulate an External GPS module with the Notecard AUX Pins

Use a NMEA GPS/GNSS simulator to mock location data for testing Notecard applications.

  • Notecard
  • GPS
Alex Bucknall
Alex BucknallStaff Developer Experience Engineer
August 28, 2025

Remotely Manage Notecards with Reserved Environment Variables

Learn how to utilize certain environment variables to remotely configure fleets of Notecards.

  • Notehub
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations

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