Electric Imp WiFi Environmental Sensor & LED kit

After fighting with 4(!) different Z-Wave products to get them to report temperatures to my custom program, I decided to check out this kit, especially since I had been intrigued by the Electric Imp earlier, closer to when it was first released. It's rare when developer-oriented embedded products just work, especially ones with a fair amount of underlying complexity like this one, but Electric Imp came through in spades. I had my Imp reporting temperature, humidity, pressure, and light level to dweet.io in about half an hour with zero problems along the way. Dweet.io provides tiny server storage where I can access the last message sent by my Imp very easily via a standard HTTP(S) call which is perfect -- exactly what I wanted from this product. Basically, it's just gorgeous -- I ordered 7 more.The setup process was great. Plug a tail (the thing with specialized sensors) into the dev board, plug the Imp card into the SD slot of the dev board, and plug a USB cable in to power everything. To get the Imp to connect to my Wifi, download the Android app, sign up for an account, and hold the phone screen to the Imp (the screen flashes a configuration code which the Imp's photosensor detects). The last time I used something similar to Blinkup with a Wink hub, it took some effort to get things to work. Not this time -- the device configured and connected quickly the first try and then showed up instantly in the online IDE. One little issue is that I didn't see a link to the instructions for the Env shield immediately, but a Google search lead me to two tutorials. For the temperature monitor one, I copied the Agent code, copied the Device code, and clicked Build and Run. Done -- it updated to dweet.io and I could navigate to the appropriate URL and see my device's data. It was also easy to modify the code to use the other sensors by looking at the weather station tutorial.Remember that this is a developer/maker tool, not an end-user product. But if you want your embedded device/electric circuit to talk to something over the internet, this solution seems pretty hard to beat; especially for the price (30 when I bought it).

Very interesting kit. Allows you to quickly build a cloud-enabled temperature/humidity sensor. Very secure because the device only communicates with Electric Imp's servers. No risk of someone hacking into your WIFI through the device. Electric Imp provides a free cloud development environment for non-commercial users.

Fantastic little device. Have lots of ideas for projects! Easy to use, low power, small.

Awesome little kit for environmental sensing with on board wifi. My 13 year son has used these to make several weather stations for his science project at school.

Cool

Great low price kit. Easy to learn IoT.

Great items............