Hi there and welcome to Blues DevNews!

Ok, it's not officially "Update Your Firmware and Libraries Day", but I did want to highlight some of the work our engineering teams have put in lately, to the tune of:

• The release of the Notecard developer firmware v5.1.1.
• The v1.4.0 release of note-arduino.
• A new C library for fetching environment variables from a Notecard.

It's also 4/20 today, and while there is a 🚬 joke in there somewhere, we did want to put a spotlight on cellular IoT in ag tech (including the cannabis industry!).

P.S. If this Blues survey takes you more than 30 seconds, feel free to take 10% off a Blues Starter Kit on me 😎.

Notehub FTW

Notehub.io is the cloud service that makes wireless IoT with Blues possible. A LOT is happening behind the scenes, including a new capability to add devices to multiple fleets and a new Postman Collection for the Notehub API.

New Project Tutorials

The Notecard- and Notehub-based tutorials keep coming in! Spot chicken eggs with thermal images and ML 🥚,  build a phototrap with object detection 📸, and detect and report gas leaks with a robot 🤖.

¿Hablas español?

Tenemos dos nuevos videos en español para compartir. IoT Celular para conectar tu proyecto a Internet sin tarjeta SIM ni WiFi y Agricultura Inteligente Conectada a la Nube con Tecnología Celular.

Upcoming Blues Events

• 🎙️ Blues Amplifier Peter Ing is speaking at SciTinyML this week.
• 🏁 Join us at Getting Started with Cellular IoT on May 11th.
• ☕ We will be guests on Arm Innovation Coffee on May 18th. 

ICYMI

• 🚀 Browse our open source reference apps to accelerate your IoT project.
• 🪁 Check out note-zephyr, the SDK for using the Notecard with Zephyr.
• 💙 Have I told you lately that Blues is hiring?

How Can We Help?

• Reach out to us via the Blues Developer Forum.
• Visit Platform Status to view Notehub incidents and maintenance windows.
• Interested in a 1:1 demo? Let us know!