Hardware prototyping with Python / GraphQL and Python

Doors open 6:30PM

Talks start 7:00 PM

Introduction from Smarkets

Hardware prototyping with Python - Moritz Eissenhauer

In this talk I will describe how I used python to build a LED display which visualises sounds and music without any prior hardware programming or signal processing knowledge. You will learn why it can be useful to use a familiar tool to tackle an unfamiliar problem, even if the tool might not fully fit the job. For any audiophiles and hardware enthusiasts I will touch on the methods I used to achieve the final result, and introduce some tools that proved useful.
Lastly I want to touch on some limitations of Python, and why it may not be the best tool for the task.

Moritz Eissenhauer is a software engineer living in London and working at Smarkets. His day to day work is looking after the real-time data feeds for the exchange in the events team, during his time in the team he has spearheaded the effort away from a monolithic code base to a modern microservices based architecture. He also maintains the https://github.com/mmEissen/airpixel & https://github.com/mmEissen/audioviz projects.

Strawberry: a dataclasses inspired approach to GraphQL - Patrick Arminio

Over the past few years GraphQL has gained much traction, especially in the JavaScript world. Python is getting on board this trend with new interesting libraries. In this talk we will see how Strawberry makes uses of modern Python features like dataclasses, type hints and asyncio to easily create GraphQL APIs.

https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry

Patrick is a Backend Engineer at Verve

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