{"id":211,"date":"2011-04-20T14:08:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikekuphal.azurewebsites.net\/?p=211"},"modified":"2011-04-20T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:08:50","slug":"my-notes-from-mobile-hardware-hacks-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"My notes from &#8216;Mobile Hardware Hacks&#8217; session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Riley (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MRiley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MRiley<\/a>)presented mainly on low cost micro controllers, specifically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arduino<\/a> micro controllers.<\/p>\n<p>Arduino = most popular and cost-effective.<\/p>\n<p>Arduino (and all other micro controllers) needs Actuators (like motors) and sensors<\/p>\n<p>Ethernet shields allow for wired networking (TCP based networking)<\/p>\n<p>Xbee Radios (for wireless)<span>\u00a0 <\/span>-not 802.X as they need lots of power<\/p>\n<p>Need a server to do the \u2018real\u2019 information processing.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Not going to want to do intense work on the micro but instead have it call web services to do the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/netduino.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NetDuino<\/a> = popular with .NET Dev\u2019s\u2026 Comes built in with Ethernet board\u2026 and can use C# to program it.<\/p>\n<p>These devices can use serial communications.<\/p>\n<p>Best place to get schematics\/plans already drawn up by others: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/tag\/type-id\/category-technology\/channel-arduino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instructables.com<\/a><span>\u00a0 <\/span>and Google searches.<\/p>\n<p>Recommend creating REST-based web services\u2026 connect via serial comm library.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Keeps things light weight.<\/p>\n<p>Designing the mobile client interface:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Test first with a simple web page exposing services via HTML UI.<\/li>\n<li>Hook up UI to REST-full implementation<\/li>\n<li>When viewing data, optimize UI to show key elements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adafruit.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sparkfun.com<\/a> are the choice sites to go to when you want to get hardware add ons (actuators, sensors, etc)<\/p>\n<p>Mike mentioned this topic leads well into the idea of a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_of_Things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet of things<\/a>\u201d \u2026 and how this is so new\u2026 it\u2019s \u2018hacker\u2019 space.<span>\u00a0 R<\/span>efers to the networked interconnection of everyday objects.<\/p>\n<p>Overall the session certainly peaked my interest in the NetDuino kit (as I would consider myself more of a .NET guy) as there are some really neat things you can make\/program in this space.<span>\u00a0 I would also be very interested in seeing how 7th\/8th graders would interact with this platform.\u00a0 Seems like one that could certainly ignite a passion for computing\/robotics\/engineering\/etc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Riley (@MRiley)presented mainly on low cost micro controllers, specifically Arduino micro controllers. Arduino = most popular and cost-effective. Arduino (and all other micro controllers) needs Actuators (like motors) and sensors Ethernet shields allow for wired networking (TCP based networking) Xbee Radios (for wireless)\u00a0 -not 802.X as they need lots of power Need a server &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/?p=211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My notes from &#8216;Mobile Hardware Hacks&#8217; session&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobileconnections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikekuphal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}