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

Moving from Arduino to FreeRTOS—A Hands-On Tutorial banner

October 8, 2025

Moving from Arduino to FreeRTOS—A Hands-On Tutorial

A hands-on guide for moving Arduino-based firmware to 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
August 5, 2025

Take Advantage of JSONata 2.0.6 in Your Notehub Routes

Learn more about the recent JSONata runtime upgrade in Notehub.

  • Notehub
  • JSONata
Rob Lauer
Rob LauerSenior Director of Developer Relations
July 30, 2025

Detecting Anomalous Devices With Notehub Smart Fleets

A guide to using Notehub smart fleets to automatically detect anomalous devices—such as those that are tipped, tampered with, or reporting faulty sensor data.

  • Notehub
TJ VanToll
TJ VanTollPrincipal Developer Advocate
July 7, 2025

Taking Payments with Stripe and Notecard

Learn how to use Stripe Payment Links and Notecard to easily take payments with your IoT system.

  • Notecard
  • Stripe
Alex Bucknall
Alex BucknallStaff Developer Experience Engineer

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