Dconstruct 2009, Internet of Things masterclass
About two months ago (2 September), we ran a one-day masterclass on the Internet of Things at the dConstruct conference in Brighton. It’s rather late to blog it, but we want a post on which to hang links to some of the course content.
We had been looking forward to this class, as it gave us a chance to pull together some pieces of technology we’ve been working on and talking about separately, but not necessarily together. (And try to teach them in a single day!)
Arduino
The morning opened with an introduction to Arduino by Nick Weldin. Participants were introduced to the hardware and software platform and built basic digital and analog input and output circuits.
XBee and RFID
This was followed by a brief introduction to Xbee radio modules and RFID readers by Daniel Soltis. After some troubleshooting, participants configured XBee radios to make a mesh network and wired up RFID readers to send tag numbers over the network to a central location.
The slides for this section are here.
Ethernet
After lunch, Matt Biddulph walked participants through connecting Arduino to the internet using the Ethernet shield, and setting up a simple chat network.
And the slides for this section are here.
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Hi Daniel, how did you address the problem of not having a public IP address for every device? Regards, tamberg
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So what are the chances of getting a copy of some of the code that was referenced in the slides? this looks like an intriguing project and I would love to test it out with my own board