Windows Azure and the Internet of Things - a talk by Bryn Lewis

Bryn has been working with Windows Azure since mid 2010 building custom applications for clients. He has also worked with other clients to port their existing applications to the platform. During the projects he has learned first-hand the strengths but also some of the gotchas of development for Microsoft Windows Azure.

Using Windows Azure and the .Net Micro Framework Bryn will give a practical demonstration of how easily you can use the Microsoft stack to construct an Internet of Things application. Come and see what you can build with a GPS, an Accelerometer, a Netduino Plus, SignalR and Windows Azure.

Bryn will also be talking about ever-increasing capabilities of the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platform and pointing out tips and tricks - the session will be kept as interactive as possible so come along with your questions!

In addition Tim Carr from Mindkits www.mindkits.co.nz has kindly provided some swag (a robot chassis & .Net MF board).

MindKits was established in December 2008 by Tim Carr after seeing a lack of sites supporting New Zealanders in learning robotics and physical computing. After working away Sundays tinkering Tim decided it was time there was a site that not only sold robotics kit, sensors and Arduinos but was a place for a community around robotics to grow and have somewhere to share ideas and learning.

MindKits was born out of the need to build a framework to make it easy for anyone interested to enter into the world of robotics and feel supported along the way.

The MindKits team are passionate to see you learn and grow and are always happy to lend a hand. Contact us if there's a project you need some advice on or you need to source parts that we may not stock already. We can generally get nearly anything in and are happy to do so.