C/C++ on Intel Edison/Galileo – part3: PWM

In this blog post, we are going to look into the ways of mraa functions used for controlling the PWM module available on the Galileo/Edison. In this tutorial, we will using PWM to control the intensity with which the LED glows, connected to port D5. The LED starts of with lowest intensity and then gradually increase the intensity until it reaches the maximum intensity and then decreases the intensity gradually until the LED is at the lowest intensity and the cycle continues.

C/C++ on Intel Edison/Galileo – part2: Buttons

In this post, we will be looking at using mraa library on C for interfacing with a button. For this example, the button will be used to turn on and off an LED connected to the Edison/Galileo. This example is going to be very similar to the previous one. The only difference being that the state of the LED is controlled by a button instead of the program running on Edison/Galileo itself.

Intel Edison v/s Linkit smart 7688

Thanks to Seeed studio, I recently came in possession of their latest Linkit modules, Linkit smart 7688 and Linkit smart 7688 duo.

As soon as I saw these modules, the first question that came to my mind was how they hold up against Intel's Edison. Since both of these modules are advertised as IoT modules with lot of features packed into a single tiny module the comparison was obvious.