Experimental Platform
Easily build smart-device integrations with web technologies
Experimental Platform launched on January 19, 2016 with 90 votes, #538 of 4,523 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
What it does
Experimental Platform provides an easy way to deploy apps on local hardware without the hassle to setup the environment. It enables developers and makers to focus on the things that matter.
For us, working on IoT projects always meant spending hours trying to fiddle around with environments, obscure device APIs and figuring out how to access them remotely with languages and frameworks we didn't know. So we decided to build an open development platform that makes the whole experience fun. It uses standard technologies like CoreOS and Docker and runs on your local machine. Here is the Experimental Platform : If you aren't already running the Experimental Platform, you will need to set it up. Luckily this is very easy: Once you have activated the sensor and smartlight, they will show up in the Device Manager . Don't worry if you don't have the hardware ready yet, we can skip this…from experimental-platform.github.io
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