Connect your sensors to the cloud

By mvuilleu, in Measures, december 18,2012.

The #1 application for most USB sensors is certainly to record the measures and draw them in a graph. We have already provided examples in previous blog posts on how to draw measure graphs in several programming languages, but so far you always had make a program of some kind to do this. Today, we show you how to leverage a public cloud-style service named Cosm (www.COSM.com) to graph your sensors without writing a single line of code. You will just need to download the latest and greatest version of our VirtualHub, and configure it to upload data to www.cosm.com. Follow the guide...

New product: the Yocto-Watt

By martinm, in New stuff, december 07,2012.

We know that some of you are impatiently waiting for it. The Yocto-Watt is now available! This new module enables you to measure by USB an electrical consumption, both with direct and with alternating current.

Would you like a Yocto-<insert_your_name> ?

By mvuilleu, in Misc, december 04,2012.

Most of the electronics we use today are built in series of hundredths of thousands, and designed so that "one-fits-all" (or, to be more precise, one-fits-the-mass-market). People think that it is no more possible to get a device dedicated for a specific set of functions, at an affordable price, for a small serie. Let us tell you that this is wrong. We build inexpensive, customized devices for some of our customers. This is how it works.

Yocto-Color and enclosure

By martinm, in Misc, november 23,2012.

Customers more and more often ask us which enclosure they should use with the Yocto-Color. The official answer is: "There is none". This is due an alignment error in the fixing holes. But unofficially, there is a way to make a Yocto-Color fit into an enclosure, as long as you are not afraid to tinker with your precious Yoctopuce products.

Excel and Yoctopuce devices

By martinm, in Programming, november 16,2012.

Not so long ago, someone asked us if our devices could be driven directly from Microsoft Excel. Actually the answer is yes. But, unfortunately, this not as easy to do as we like our libraries to be. Anyway, seeing Excel plotting data coming directly from a Yoctopuce sensor might be worth the effort.