Meet Chirimen, a Firefox OS-Powered IoT Single-Board Computer Developed by Mozilla | Linux Today

Meet Chirimen, a Firefox OS-Powered IoT Single-Board Computer Developed by Mozilla

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Marius Nestor
Jan 11, 2016

Chirimen was designed from the offset to use web browser technologies in various science projects by extending the I2C and GPIO WebAPIs to control devices powered by Mozilla’s Firefox OS 2.0 and higher operating system. As such, Web developers can easily use browser technologies to develop real awesome things.

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Marius Nestor

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