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Marvell's Kinoma Create Keeps On Creating (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the working-to-make-the-internet-of-things-as-open-source-as-possible dept.

Marvell is the parent company. Kinoma is the company Marvell bought in 2011 that "provides an open-source, cross-platform ECMAScript stack aimed at developing software for Internet of Things products and other embedded devices." They'll sell you a little hardware, too, which makes sense when you realize that parent company Marvell is big-time in the hardware business and will happily help you produce your IoT product -- for a fee, of course. Slashdot interviewed Peter Hoddie at last year's OSCON, so please consider this video an update. And before you ask: Peter says Kinoma is open source, from the bottom to the top -- to which we reply, "we like it like that."

14 comments

  1. I don't get it by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 2

    Where's the Stan Lee cameo?

  2. How many read "Marvel" and "Internet of Things" by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 1

    And thought "Iron Man toilet paper dispenser that creates Jarvis voice vines when it's getting low. Rock on!!!"

    And then were horribly disappointed when they read the article.

  3. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Because if it's one thing IoT needs, it's javascript.

    1. Re:Great by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 2

      Because if it's one thing IoT needs, it's javascript.

      Well, let's think about IoT RealMedia or IoT ActiveX as alternatives. Then again, let's not.

  4. The future! by xenotransplant · · Score: 1

    Hackers will know how any lemons are in my fridge! Hackers will know what settings I use on my laundry! Hackers will be able to set my thermostat, feed my dog, unlock the house, open the garage door and start my car! Hackers will be able to find my lost socks! The FUTURE!!@!!!!!1111oneoneone

    1. Re:The future! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Who the hell keeps lemons in the fridge????

    2. Re:The future! by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 1

      With a decent system, you'll be pretty safe. Just be sure not to lose your phone... and don't show off the IoT remote to your friends (ad by a Dutch insurance company)

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      If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
  5. Marvel? Cinema? Video? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2

    Disappoint.

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    systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
  6. ECMAScript stack by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 2

    At first, I thought that Marvel had created a piece of software the created formulaic superhero scripts for their franchise. My bad

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    Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
  7. Javascript on embedded systems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    kill me

  8. To Serve Man by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

    "The Internet of Things...IT'S A COOKBOOK!"

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    You are welcome on my lawn.
  9. Call me a Luddite... by argStyopa · · Score: 1

    ...but I still don't really understand AT ALL the desire to hook everything up to the "Internet of Things".

    Why the fuck would I want/need to set my front door lock, my thermostat, my refrigerator, etc all connected to the internet? Certainly, there may be some trivial utility, with the cost that some of the basic functionality of my life is now exposed to the malice of bored script kiddies (or the data gathering of even more malignant marketers)?

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    -Styopa
    1. Re:Call me a Luddite... by DarkTempes · · Score: 1

      Your kid forgot his key and he doesn't have a phone or he lost it and he usually calls you when he gets home from school (because you require that) so you're worried that he's locked out of the house and you remotely unlock your back door for fifteen minutes so he can get in.
      Maybe it can warn you that someone tried the lock or the doorknob when you weren't home? Or maybe having an eletronic lock means carrying around less stuff because you could just use your phone or the same "key fob" you use for your car.
      I dunno, tbh, electronic locks seem weird to me given that house locks in general are just there to make you Feel Good(TM) and don't really provide much security.

      You (your phone) can tell your thermostat that you're on the way home so your house can start cooling down. Or that you're not going home so your house can stay warm and save energy. It can track statistics and you can see if there's a problem before you're even home and you can call someone to fix it while you're out, etc.
      It can remind you to change the filter. It can look up the temperature and humidity online without needing an outdoor thermostat to help it figure out complicated thermostat things.

      Your fridge could track what food is actually in it and when it's going to spoil and what you need to buy and that could all sync with your phone with an automated grocery list when you go to the grocery store. Or it could automatically buy the food online and save you man hours of effort over your lifespan increasing the time you have to do other things. It can remind you to buy a water filter. It can automatically buy a new water filter.

      There's no reason most connected devices need to expose anything to bored script kiddies because as long as your router has a stateful firewall for IPv6 then it will effectively be the same result as when everything was hidden behind NAT and so it would need a grossly incompetent programmer to make your device vulnerable.
      And, honestly, everything you do is already tracked by marketers anyway. Hell, Target knows when women are pregnant before the women do based on purchasing habits.