Meet Yoctopuce

Yoctopuce designs, manufactures and sells USB devices to let your computer sit in the real world, not in the cloud. Our USB modules are tiny, easy to install and easy to drive programmatically. Among them you will find:

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Creating a connected night light

IKEA makes pretty ghost-shaped night lights, but the power cable of these "SPÖKA" is very thin. One children has torn this cable and called Yoctopuce for help. At first, we thought that we would simply fix the power cable but, in the end, we decided to improve this night light by transforming it into a "connected night light" with a Yocto-Color-V2 and a YoctoHub-Wireless-SR.

The YoctoHubs

From the start, sensors and actuators produced by Yoctopuce are USB devices. But you can enhance them with network connectivity very easily thanks to the YoctoHubs. As part of our "Yoctopuce for beginners" series, we are going to have a look at these YoctoHubs and discuss their advantages and disadvantages.