A small presentation regarding how the Blynk project works, made for an Individual Project for the Pervasive Systems exam at the Univerisity of Rome "La Sapienza"
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Blynk is a Platform with iOS and
Android apps to control Arduino,
Raspberry Pi and the likes over the
Internet.
What is Blynk?
3. It's a digital dashboard
where you can build a
graphic interface for
your project by simply
dragging and dropping
widgets.
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4. But most importantly...
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It is really simple!
To set up all the required environment
(Server, Client and Board)
5 minutes are more than enough.
5. Now, a lil’ bit of
history...
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16 January 2015 14 February 2015 27 March 2015 12 May 2015
Start! Successfully
raised $49,235
USD
Beta
release
Live
12. Main Operations
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- Interact with Pins (Digital and
Analog)
- Send and Receive data from
Hardware
How?
Blynk allows us to:
13. … with Widgets!
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- Controllers
- Displays
- Notifications
- Others
4 main types:
18. Is it possible to run a
local server?
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The answer, of course, is YES.
1. download the Web-server from the Website
2. start the server locally
3. set up Router to enable port-forwarding
4. Set the server from the Blynk App
19. Pros and Cons
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PROS: CONS:
- easy & simple
- many features
- no additional hardware
- cool GUI
- active community
- lack of documentation for some
devices
- not made to implement
complex proejcts
- can’t make own widgets