During the Hackster Hardware Weekend I had the chance to test the Intel Edison board and was pretty amazed by its form factor and speed.
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Intel has made sure to include Arduino compatibility in its Edison and Galileo boards, and while I think it's a nice alternative to have, I feel that some project just don't require this, and adding that layer would just make it harder to program and may use more resources.

So I looked for ways to access the GPIO pins directly from the Linux environment, without the Arduino overhead, and luckily I found the MRAA library. It makes it SO easy to interface with the Edison pins from the comfort of a Python script (and there's also a Javascript binding).

In this tutorial we'll use the MRAA Library to log sensor data and stream it to Ubidots.
​https://www.hackster.io/ubimaker/logging-sensor-data-using-intel-edison-amp-python-d6cccc

This content was originally published in Ubidots' Blog on July 1, 2015.