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Blues
Company blog · blues.io/bloghardwareprogramming
Blues is the company blog at blues.io, writing about hardware and programming. Since 2020, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Company blog from an IoT vendor, with posts on GPS asset tracking and Raspberry Pi Pico PIO. Commenters mostly link the site for its cellular IoT products and pricing rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-08-03
- Ray Ozzie’s Notecard is an IoT data pump with a JSON API and free cellular3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-26
- /services/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-03
- Notecard: The fastest path to build and deploy cellular connected products2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-21
What Hacker News says?
Here are some articles and projects where we show how to do Asset Tracking. One article is about an Iceland trip, the other is about building out a GPS tracker, complete with data dashboards. Iceland: https://blues.io/blog/vacation-gps-asset-tracker/ Full Asset Tracking Project: https://www.hackster.io/paige-niedringhaus/low-code-gps-asse... Adapting this for a car would be straightforward.
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on “O.mg Cable”Submitted Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity as a story · 296 points
HN discussionhttps://blues.io/
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on “O.mg Cable”Submitted Car stolen with homemade GPS tracker in backseat as a story · 74 points
HN discussion$49 for the device and data: https://blues.io/
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on “O.mg Cable”Submitted Blues Wireless – Just Like React, but for IoT as a story · 9 points
HN discussionsame here - "Prototype" ($0/mon) looks like what most hobbyists would use who exceed 5K/mon: https://blues.io/services/
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on “Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity”Submitted Ray Ozzie’s Notecard is an IoT data pump with a JSON API and free cellular as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe first one is always free. Here's the actual pricing.[1] There's a free tier limited to 5,000 events/month. The "Deploy" tier is $5,389.20 per project/year, plus event charges, plus a "connectivity assurance" charge. Still, you could get a lot done with the free tier if you didn't overdo the traffic. Every half hour, "Soda machine #5621, no alarms, outside temp 82F, inside temp 36F, cash $75.25, stock level for D…
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on “Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity”Submitted Ray Ozzie's startup Blues Wireless releases new Feather-compatible MCU today as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAlso Blues.IO: https://blues.io/products/notecarrier/notecarrier-pi/
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on “Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway”Submitted Get your Dad Jokes delivered via SMS with this IoT project as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis was posted a little while ago, and might interest you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28051005 https://blues.io/products/
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on “Ask HN: Is anyone working on an open hardware 3G/4G dongle?”Submitted Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Buster to Bullseye on a Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blues.io/products/notecard/
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on “Swarm M138 Modem”Submitted Notehub JavaScript – The JavaScript Library for the Notehub API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTry https://blues.io But their SIM is embedded in SoC.
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on “Ask HN: Cellular Data Options for MQTT”Submitted Building IoT Wireless Connectivity Devices – Blues Wireless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can use one of that: https://www.thingsmobile.com/business/plans/pay-per-use-plan... https://blues.io/pricing/
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on “Ask HN: IoT SIM Cards”Submitted Building a POC Smart City Pothole Detector with $100 and 5 Lines of Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is using PIO not ARM (zero CPU time), PIO have whole 9 instructions and 32 instruction words shared between clusters of four PIOs https://blues.io/blog/raspberry-pi-pico-pio/
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on “UDP transmitter implemented with PIO and DMA on the RP2040”Submitted Soul of a New Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Soul of a New Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notecard: The fastest path to build and deploy cellular connected products as a story · 1 points
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