Microsoft and SparkFun have gotten together to bring you some IoT (Internet of Things) fun. The IoT Starter Kits are designed to help you seamlessly connect your devices to the cloud with Microsoft Azure IoT. All of the kits include an 'Azure certified for IoT' development board, sensors and online tutorials to help you get started with IoT.
Microsoft Azure is a leading provider of cloud computing and Microsoft Azure IoT Hub enables secure, reliable bi-directional communications between IoT endpoints such as sensors and the cloud. Azure IoT Hub supports a broad set of operating systems (Linux, Windows, RTOS etc.), protocols and common languages, so you can configure your connections to the devices.
The Microsoft Azure IoT Starter Kit not only allows you to connect to the internet, but also comes with a breadboard and wires to help you set up your circuits. There are also a variety of sensors such as a photoresistor to sense light as well as a humidity/temperature sensor to read the ambient temperature and humidity in a room (or outdoors with some weatherproofing). Once your board is connected to Azure IoT you can start visualizing and analyzing your data. You can either buy the kit or if you already have some of the parts check out the wishlist for the kit.
SparkFun Thing Kit - The SparkFun Thing Dev Board is based on the popular ESP8266 WiFi module. With it you have a simple microcontroller with built in Wifi to interface with your sensors, buttons, and LEDs that can be controlled from or post data to the web. Everything you need to get started from voltage regulation to a PCB antenna are built into the board. Just plug a USB cable into the board and you can actually start programming in the Arduino IDE or other environment.
SparkFun Thing Dev Board Product Page
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