The challenge for us, was to make something that was related to both the Hack Day theme, and our primary interest of cloud computing. We decided to create something based on Uplink, a 2001 game that simulates ‘hacking’, as seen in movies.
I jumped at the chance to glean some insights from the very first YOW! Connected conference – a new conference focused on Mobile and the Internet of Things. Here’s a rundown of my favourite talks from the conference.
Topics include native development for iOS and Android, the developing market for the IoT, UX & design, back-end development and several real-world case studies.
As a way to learn about the Arduino and some basic component-level electronics I set myself up with a new project. The goal was to modernise a retro clock radio so that it can display the room temperature and humidity, as well as the time.
A YOW! Night presentation on how easy and rewarding it it is to get involved with building the Internet of Things (IoT), using some practical examples of technology at each end of the IoT spectrum.
Beth Skurrie is speaking on “Pacts to the Rescue: Making your Microservices play nicely together with Consumer Driven Contracts” and Daryl Wilding-McBride is speaking about “Hands-on with the Internet of Things“.
Our moonshot should involve robots – flying robots. We should build an autonomous flying robot capable of travelling far beyond our line-of-sight to find a lost walker in the desert, drop him a bottle of water, and return.
DiUS’ Smart Energy start-up Percepscion was invited to showcase its portfolio of Smart Energy products as a part of the ZigBee Alliance pavilion at CES 2014.
Sharing the evidence we use as inputs to our technology choices to aid others in their technology decision-making.
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