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I don’t know what I’m doing…
SydPHP
IoT and RSSKenneth Scott Huntley
Miller College of SWSi TAFEMiller, NSW, Australia
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
SydPHP
IoT and RSSKenneth Scott Huntley
Miller College of SWSi TAFEMiller, NSW, Australia
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
IoT an
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Ugly T
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Let me tell you about my friend Steve
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Let me tell you about my friend Steve
Steve is the guy who got me into the Internet of Things by lighting a t-shirt on fire.
It made me wonder if I could use electronics to light items of clothing on fire as well.
Could I light a tie on fire?
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Let me tell you about my friend Steve
Steve is the guy who got me into the Internet of Things by lighting a t-shirt on fire.
It made me wonder if I could use electronics to light items of clothing on fire as well.
Could I light a tie on fire?
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Let me tell you about my friend Steve
Steve is the guy who got me into the Internet of Things by lighting a t-shirt on fire.
It made me wonder if I could use electronics to light items of clothing on fire as well.
Could I light a tie on fire?
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Steve
Let me tell you about my friend Steve
Steve is the guy who got me into the Internet of Things by lighting a t-shirt on fire.
It made me wonder if I could use electronics to light items of clothing on fire as well.
Could I light a tie on fire?
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Steve
Adriana
Let me tell you about my friend Steve
Steve is the guy who got me into the Internet of Things by lighting a t-shirt on fire.
It made me wonder if I could use electronics to light items of clothing on fire as well.
Could I light a tie on fire?
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Steve
Who is this guy?
Adriana
Let me tell you about my friend Steve
Steve is the guy who got me into the Internet of Things by lighting a t-shirt on fire.
It made me wonder if I could use electronics to light items of clothing on fire as well.
Could I light a tie on fire?
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Steve
Who is this guy?
Adriana
And why is he so short?
Adventures in Conference Proposals
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Adventures in Conference Proposals
I thought “hey, what if I could connect a wearable to Moodle?”
After all, there was a Moodle Moot in Japan that had a call for proposals out.
They’ll never select my proposal anyway.
Meh.
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Adventures in Conference Proposals
I thought “hey, what if I could connect a wearable to Moodle?”
After all, there was a Moodle Moot in Japan that had a call for proposals out.
They’ll never select my proposal anyway.
Meh.
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
I’m a big fan of famous last words
Adventures in Conference Proposals
I thought “hey, what if I could connect a wearable to Moodle?”
After all, there was a Moodle Moot in Japan that had a call for proposals out.
They’ll never select my proposal anyway.
Meh.
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
I’m a big fan of famous last words
Adventures in Conference Proposals
I thought “hey, what if I could connect a wearable to Moodle?”
After all, there was a Moodle Moot in Japan that had a call for proposals out.
They’ll never select my proposal anyway.
Meh.
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
I’m a big fan of famous last words
And a big fan of the anvil
drop animation in Keynote
Adventures in Conference Proposals
I thought “hey, what if I could connect a wearable to Moodle?”
After all, there was a Moodle Moot in Japan that had a call for proposals out.
They’ll never select my proposal anyway.
Meh.
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
I’m a big fan of famous last words
And a big fan of the anvil
drop animation in KeynoteWoo Hoo!
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Getting the tie working was a very long and difficult process for a software guy.
I experimented with two boards designed for wearables, the Lilypad USB and the Adafruit Flora.
The tie I took to Japan was working* off a Lilypad USB.
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Getting the tie working was a very long and difficult process for a software guy.
I experimented with two boards designed for wearables, the Lilypad USB and the Adafruit Flora.
The tie I took to Japan was working* off a Lilypad USB.
But is this the Internet of Things?
Well… funny thing about that…
The Flora board was the one I selected for the tie…
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
The “Backend” The “Frontend”
But is this the Internet of Things?
Originally the “backend” was hooked up to Bluetooth.
The idea was a message could be sent to the tie.
Like if an RSS feed changed.
And Moodle events can generate RSS feeds…
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
But is this the Internet of Things?
Originally the “backend” was hooked up to Bluetooth.
The idea was a message could be sent to the tie.
Like if an RSS feed changed.
And Moodle events can generate RSS feeds…
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Adafruit “Bluefruit”
But is this the Internet of Things?But…
Getting a stable connection was difficult because of Unknown Reason X and “I’m a software guy”.
Actually, I’m pretty sure Unknown Reason X is that Bluetooth and the Neopixel LEDs are drawing too much power at the same time. But I don’t know how to fix that.
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
The “Backend” The “Frontend”
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
The “Backend” The “Frontend”
So let’s just quickly swap out the backend so I at least have
something to show…
Oh noes
During debugging (on Feb 10th), I actually broke a Lilypad USB.
This day sucked.
We found enough spare parts to sew together another backend
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Oh noes
During debugging (on Feb 10th), I actually broke a Lilypad USB.
This day sucked.
We found enough spare parts to sew together another backend
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
Oh noes
During debugging (on Feb 10th), I actually broke a Lilypad USB.
This day sucked.
We found enough spare parts to sew together another backend
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
It turns out I had the answer two weeks ago…PunchThrough Design’s LightBlue Bean
❖ It arrived the day of phunconf
❖ Didn’t play with it much trying to get other demos ready
❖ Four days before I left for Japan, I started playing with it, and realised:
BEAN + PYTHON = MOODLE RSS THINGY I WANTED ALL ALONG
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
The “Backend” The “Frontend”
#SydPHP #UglyTie @MillerTAFEScott
The “Backend” The “Frontend”
So let’s swap out the backend last night for today…
…even though I won’t have time to demo it…
Demo Time
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