Builders After Dark - Episode 4

Join us for Episode 4 of our Builders After Dark Meetup at the new AWS Builders Studio.

5:30pm - 6:00pm - Networking & Drinks
6:00pm - 7:00pm - Talks & Q&A
7:00pm - 8:00pm - Pizza & Networking

Talk 1)
"This is the Droid you're looking for (or at least the one I was looking for)"
By Matthew Merriel, Principal Consultant, Mantel Group

"3d Printer + Love of all things StarWars + AWS RoboMaker = AWS Controlled R2 Droid, plain and simple.Come on a journey as I walk through the end to end process of how I've built my very own R2 Droid driven by AWS RoboMaker. I'll walk through the physical build process... How I built the electronics, integrated it with AWS and all of the headaches/pain points along the way. I'll even be providing details on how you can start building your own should you want to start building your own R2 unit."

Talk 2)
“Robotics 101 – from dream to reality to nightmare and back”, by Adam Purdie, Senior Solution Architect, AWS.

Adam "Spidey" Purdie (he/him) is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. With an eclectic career ranging from sous chef to white-hat security analyst, mobile engineer to CTO, Spidey tends to think of things from many simultaneous aspects - hence, Solutions Architect. With a penchant for robotics, electronics and a long history of software engineering, Spidey's spare time is spent creating things in his home-lab and one day hopes to develop intelligent prosthesis to give mobility to those with limited mobility. Also, take over the world with his robotic spider army.

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