Welcome to Sparrow 🐦

Owned by TJ VanToll
Last updated: Jun 22, 2022
2 min read

These documents are intended to be a work in progress and may change or be removed at any time during this product beta period. Canonical resources will be found at https://dev.blues.io once complete.

Welcome to Sparrow! Below you’ll find guides and documentation to help you get up and running with your Sparrow hardware.

  • Sparrow Quickstart: The place to start. This step-by-step guide helps you set up, configure, and start collecting data from your Sparrow Development Kit.

  • Sparrow Setup and Run Guide: More advanced information on Sparrow, including detailed hardware descriptions, and instructions on building, flashing, and debugging Sparrow firmware.

  • Sparrow Binary Installation Guide: A step-by-step guide for downloading firmware GitHub releases, and uploading those binaries to your devices.

  • What To Do With Your Sparrow Data: Information on what to do with your data in Notehub, including tips on routing data to your own services, and how to use the Sparrow Reference Web App.

  • Writing Sparrow Applications: A look at how to write custom Sparrow applications.

  • Sparrow Application Guide: Diagnostic: Learn about the Diagnostic Application, a sample app that helps new Sparrow developers understand and trace the behaviors of an application.

Have feedback? Ran into problems? Reach out on our forum and we’ll do our best to help you out.

Sparrow Reference Web App

Once you have your hardware up and running, the Sparrow reference web app provides an easy way to view your sensor data in a web application. You’re also welcome (encouraged!) to fork the reference web app, and use it as the basis for your own Sparrow-based web applications.