Twitter, Snapchat and the Internet of Things.

This talk was similar to the one I did at Cambridge, but this was more focused on IOT than the Raspberry Pi.

This talk was given at the Xively Office in Shoreditch, London.

Projects included in this talk:

twiimote:
https://github.com/hako/twiimote

littlesnapper:
https://github.com/hako/littlesnapper

Transcript

1. Twitter, Snapchat & The Internet of Things Wesley Hill
2. Wesley Hill • Computer Science student (Undergraduate) • Animator/Developer (Hobbyist) • Enjoys creating things!* • @hakobyte *(Even if it takes more than two years to create)
3. The Internet of Things Illustration by Christoph Niemann [c] TIME
4. The Internet of Things A concept where everyday devices are exchanging information with each other via the internet. Phillips Hue Practically anything which is internet enabled Good Night Lamp Nest Thermostat Pebble Smartwatch (Connected Home) (Connected Home) (Connected Home) (Connected Wearables)
5. Two examples of IOT will be shown today
6. Enabling an ordinary device to become internet enabled
7. Using an existing IOT device for a different purpose
8. Twitter
9. twiimote is a program that ‘connects your wiimote to Twitter’ twiimote (Nintendo Wii & Wiimote) (Nintendo Wiimote)
10. twiimote The wiimote vibrates to two events: ! • The home timeline • The twitter stream (eg, #hashtags) ! Turned into a connected device using Bluetooth ! (Written in C then switched over to Python) !
11. How twiimote works
12. twiimote demonstration
13. Snapchat
14. littlesnapper captures unread snapchat images or ‘snaps’ and prints them to the BERG Little Printer littlesnapper (BERG Little Printer) (Snapchat app)
15. littlesnapper • littlesnapper captures and hosts the image ! • The Little Printer prints out the image ! • littlesnapper deletes the hosted image. ! • All images are in black and white. ! • Regular ‘snaps’ and Snapchat stories can be printed.
16. How littlesnapper works
17. littlesnapper demo
18. Both of these projects are open source on GitHub https://github.com/hako/twiimote https://github.com/hako/littlesnapper
19. Questions?
20. @hakobyte Thanks for watching! http://hakob.yt/e