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Meet Chirimen, a Firefox OS-Powered IoT Single-Board Computer Developed by Mozilla

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Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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Today we would like to introduce you guys to an upcoming development SBC called Chirimen, which is currently developed by Mozilla, the company behind the world's famous Firefox and Thunderbird software products.

Being designed by MozillaFactory.org in Japan, Chirimen aims to be a development board for Web developers who want to build Web-connected Internet of Things devices powered by the technologies implemented in the Firefox web browser, which means Firefox OS.

Chirimen was designed from the offset to use web browser technologies in various science projects by extending the I2C and GPIO WebAPIs to control devices powered by Mozilla's Firefox OS 2.0 and higher operating system. As such, Web developers can easily use browser technologies to develop real awesome things.

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