{"id":880,"date":"2017-11-15T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughqelliott.com\/blog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2017-11-15T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:37:12","slug":"kraft-bears-technical-process-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughqelliott.com\/blog\/kraft-bears-technical-process-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraft Bears Technical Process – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In\u00a0Kraft Bears<\/a> I talk about getting the project to pair up teddy bears with electronics and lights so they can communicate with each other. Problem is, the story of how the bears work won\u2019t interest everyone. For those of you that are interested, here you go.<\/p>\n

Prototype versus Production<\/h3>\n

I needed to prove that the concept of \u201chugging a bear to light up a different bear\u201d was viable before they\u2019d proceed with the large quantities of bears so I undertook the prototype first.<\/p>\n

The first debate we had involved what type of board to use. They were undecided between wifi or cellular. I opted to go with Particle<\/a> primarily due to their having a board of each type; Photon<\/a> and Electron<\/a>. Also they have a cloud-based infrastructure that all of their boards can connect to and can be updated from.<\/p>\n

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After working on the prototype, the following are the pros and cons I discovered;<\/p>\n

WIFI<\/strong><\/h4>\n