Last Monday evening Patrick Fenner and I headed up to Preston to tell them a bit about the Internet of Things and what we've been doing in that area here at DoES Liverpool.
It was a pretty informal gathering, but full of interested and interesting people. Preston Geekup was a very welcoming event (with much home-made cake being shared!), and I can heartily recommend a visit if you're into techie things and nearby.
We spoke without slides - these slides will give you a flavour of what I talked about, and if you want any more then pre-order Designing the Internet of Things ;-) However, I said I'd share links to some of the things which came up either in my talk, or during the questions and discussion afterwards:
Connected Devices We Had With Us
- Bubblino
- Good Night Lamp
- John McKerrell's WhereDial
- Patrick's Coffee Bot, which shows the live data feed of coffee availability in DoES Liverpool
Things I Mentioned
- Arduino (see also Shrimping.it, an Arduino-compatible project from Cefn, who was also in attendance)
- Beaglebone
- Raspberry Pi
- Russell Davies' Bikemap
- The Ackers Bell, which hasn't been written up yet, beyond a brief mention and photo on the Making page
- The Perceptive Radio that we built for BBC R&D with Mudlark
- Our Howduino physical computing and IoT hack-weekends
- Our work with Imagication to take the Internet of Things into primary schools
- And if you want to see more fun hardware/makery projects, head to Manchester Mini-Maker Faire in August
Finally, Liz, who asked us along in the first place, has collected together some of the discussion from the event in a Storify.