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MATRIX Labs and Premier Farnell forge global partnership to transform the IoT app economy

A Message from our CEO:

Today marks a special day for our young company comprised of 40 passionate technologists. This exclusive worldwide partnership with Premier Farnell enables MATRIX Creator to have massive visibility and accessibility to makers and developers in over 125 countries. This is truly amazing and inspires us to continue to develop MATRIX OS, MATRIX Voice, and the MATRIX App Store; ultimately empowering you with the platform to re-imagine IoT and AI app creation.

One of the cornerstones of our culture is our commitment to you. We are here to build awesome tools that enable your amazing creations to happen.

We pledge to continue working on the documentation, artificial intelligence integrations, ease-of-use for launching apps, and are always available to answer your questions and offer assistance.

Our community is stronger than ever and we are excited about the possibilities of exposing our MATRIX Ecosystem to Premier Farnell’s enormous community of developers.

We are dreamers, engineers, tinkerers, makers, and we are particularly proud of the fact that we exist today because of your support, curiosity, and your constant feedback on how we can be better and build the tools you actually want!

On behalf of our entire team, thank you and rest assured, this is only the beginning. Our roadmap looks awesome and we look forward to sharing and co-building it with you.

Sincerely,

Rodolfo Saccoman CEO & Co-founder MATRIX Labs

For Full Press Release, See Here. "Premier Farnell launches the MATRIX Creator: a Raspberry Pi add-on to support IoT device development." Click to Read >

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It's here! MATRIX Creator Tutorial Video Series. Launch IoT Apps in Minutes!

Hello Creators!

We are excited to anounce a new video series that we will be creating to help you and our exponentially growing community better understand how to program the MATRIX Creator!

We already have a few more videos planned but we want to hear what you want us to make! So please go to the following link and reply to the thread or email alfred.gonzalez@matrixlabs.ai

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Face Recognition ALPHA available for MATRIX OS

Hey Creators!

We’ve just launched the Alpha version of Face Recognition for MATRIX OS, which can be deployed and leveraged by your IoT applications built with the MATRIX Creator. Our Face Recognition technology integrates seamlessly into any IoT app development on the MATRIX Platform. Some key features include:

Train Faces

Recognize Faces

List Faces

Delete Faces

Usage with MATRIX OS

To use Face Recognition with MATRIX OS, you have to first make sure you’ve upgraded to version 0.11 or above.

Basic Setup

You’ll need to update your matrix packages, so just make sure to follow the upgrade procedure here: https://matrix-io.github.io/matrix-documentation/upgrades/

Train

Training Face Recognition with MATRIX OS is pretty simple. Kick-off “train” mode using an event, or with an already pre-built app, and then stand in front of the camera.

Trained Faces

After training, you can always retrieve a list of trained faces that are stored for your user account.

Remove a Trained Face

Removing a trained face is as simple as adding one. Just simply call the recognition service to and the un-train method to remove the trained face.

Usage: Recognition & Threshold Setting

There are a few ways to leverage the MATRIX Face Recognition Technology. The first way is to specifically look for someone in the trained database of users. You can see a simple example of how this is done below. The MATRIX Recognition Service returns a set of matches in order of distance. Threshold is still something we have yet to further define, our example just shows an extremely basic implementation at the moment.

Documentation & Additional Examples

Check out more documentation below:

Full Example

Computer Vision

Overall Documentation

App Store

Community & Contributing

To contribute in any way shape or form, track an issue, or write some code, go to github.com/matrix-io, or start a thread on our community forums.

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App Store is Live! MATRIX Creator Happy Holidays Update.

Hello Creators!

Our team continues to work hard to deliver amazing new features and improvements for your Creator, just in time for the holidays. First, we are very grateful to our users for helping each other solve problems at community.matrix.one

We've seen tremendous growth over the last few months and it's all thanks to you. Together, we are going to make this an amazing platform for makers of all levels.

App Store Officially Launched!

We just released our extremely alpha version of the app store. So alpha, you'll probably break something. But that's okay! We're watching... We've developed 6 small apps you can deploy to your device by running matrix install appName.

matrix create to make your app scaffolding.

matrix deploy your app to make sure that it works the way you want.

matrix publish and it's available for download via matrix install!

MATRIX Open Source

We've hit v0.6.2! All of our new computer vision services are available on your Creator, using JavaScript via MATRIX OS, or using the core library directly. Additionally, we've added more core functionality across other parts of the ecosystem, and improved the overall stability of the system.

Face Detection

Gesture Detection

Device-Device Triggers

Auto-Update

Improved Stability

App Store Support

Creator & MALOS

GPIO and Servos are accessible via MALOS (our hardware interface), get your robots ready! Microphone beamforming (delay & sum) has been released as well. More details can be found in the examples provided for the mic array. More iterations on this to come!

Mic. Beamforming (delay & sum)

GPIOs

Servos

MATRIX CLI

You gave us feedback, and we listened! We've added device removal. So remove devices to your heart's content. We've also added several "reference by name" methods instead of having to refer to the device identifier all the time.

matrix remove boatymcboatface

Community & Contributing

@hpsaturn decided to release an Android MALOS integration for the MATRIX Creator. Check it out here, the response time is unreal! If you have any more ideas or projects that you'd love to share with us reach out to us on any one of our channels.

To contribute in any way shape or form, track an issue, or write some code, go to github.com/matrix-io, or start a thread on our community forums.

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MATRIX Creator Case Available to 3D Print!

Dear Creators,

As promised, you are now able to download the STL files for a MATRIX Creator case. We designed this case to protect the MATRIX Creator and Raspberry Pi, and offer a simple solution to mounting the device on any tripod. We included a recess on the case that gives access to all Raspberry Pi ports, allowing you to connect and disconnect any wire or peripheral your have with ease. We hope you like it and encourage those of you with 3D-design skills to create your own!

Key Features

Full visibility of MATRIX Creator

No sensors obstructed.

Easy access to all Raspberry Pi ports.

Attachable to a tripod via bottom screw hole

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