Internetting Your Things @ Prairie Dev Con Regina 2015

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I n t e r n e t t i n g Y o u r T h i n g s P e a r l C h e n S l i d e s : g o . k l a b . c a / p r d c - h a r d w a r e

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He l l o ! My Na m e I s

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Only some of my microcontrollers…

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computer icon by Juan Pablo Bravo & painting icon by Mikael Westman (via thenounproject.com) X

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computer icon by Juan Pablo Bravo & modiﬁed classroom icon by Rafael Farias Leão (via thenounproject.com)

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(ﬂy)light LED sculpture by Pearl Chen

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(ﬂy)light LEDs by Pearl Chen

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(ﬂy)light circuits by Pearl Chen

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Haptic navigator prototype by Pearl Chen, Connie Leung, Harold Treen

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Two of my HTML5Rocks articles.

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I mostly work on IoT hackathon on boarding materials.

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Basic Stamp 1975: Microchip PIC example Arduino shield Arduino

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stacked shields (via wikipedia)

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MaKey MaKey

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… w i t h a p r o t o t y p e W H E R E T O S TA R T ? Early Pebble Prototype by Eric Migicovsky (image credit: Slashgear) ⇪

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… w i t h a p r o t o t y p e W H E R E T O S TA R T ? Early Google Glass Prototype by Google (image credit: The Verge) ⇪ How long do you think it took to prototype Glass?  One day. Tom Chi @ TED Ed ⇪

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T h e d e c l i n e o f A r d u i n o T M ? ? ?

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2 T R U T H S Hardware  is becoming more like  software. Hardware  is hard.

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W H Y S H O U L D YO U B E I N T E R E S T E D ? • sense the world around you → CONTEXT is KING • add internet: dumb things → smart things • screen-less experiences / ambient notiﬁcations • body and location awareness → wearables

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H O W D O YO U C H O O S E ? • Price?  $100+, < $100 USD, < $80, < $50, < $30, < $20, < $10 • Form factor?  Dedicated space, tight space, wearable • Connectivity?  Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, BLE, none • Programming language?  Arduino, JavaScript, C++, Python, no programming • Run-time environment and processing speed?  Arduino/Embedded vs. Linux • Community?  Can you get help when you need it?

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No p ro g r a m m i n g ^ embedded

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L I T T L E B I T S

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M A K E Y M A K E Y

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T W I N E

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B u i l t - i n Wi -Fi

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PA R T I C L E ( F O R M E R LY " S PA R K " )

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I N T E L E D I S O N

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A R D U I N O Y U N

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E L E C T R I C I M P

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T E S S E L 2

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B u i l t - i n 3 G

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S PA R K E L E C T R O N

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B u i l t - i n B l u e t o o t h L E

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L I G H T B LU E B E A N

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E S T I M OT E

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P H Y S I C A L W E B ( B Y G O O G L E )

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A d d o n s r e q u i r e d

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R A S P B E R R Y P I

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A R D U I N O S H I E L D S / A D A P T E R S

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G e t t i n g s t a r t e d

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H A C K S T E R .I O

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I N S T R U C TA B L E S

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S PA R K F U N

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A D A F R U I T

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G R O V E S TA R T E R K I T S

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W H E R E TO B U Y E L E C T R O N I C S ( I N T O R O N T O )

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TWITTER @PearlChen GOOGLE+ klab.ca/+ P E A R L C H E N T h a n k s !