Queen City IoT Day!

The Charlotte IoT group is excited to announce an epic event we are calling the Queen City IoT Day! The Internet of Things, IoT, is upon us in a big way and more objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. This event is for those who are excited about connecting disparate devices to one another ranging from wireless communication to the internet. Everyone is welcome from novices, hobbyists, makers, experts, wizards and the inquisitive.

Do not miss this opportunity to get hands on experience with the technology! The day will have 2 hands on workshops, 5 presentations, plus show and tell time where our members will have booths to show off their IoT projects and technology.

Come for just the events that interest you the most or better yet stay for the entire day!

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Atmel Tech on Tour Truck

Atmel is bringing their tech on tour showroom truck! We will have a Wi-Fi IoT workshop with the SAMW25 Xplained Pro board on the truck that is limited to the first 30 people. We are controlling the registration of the workshop through a separate Eventbrite registration, so make sure to register on meetup but also to this link if you want to be one of the lucky people who gets to do Atmel workshop: Additional registration to be one of the lucky ones to do the Atmel IoT SAMW25 Xplained Pro Workshop (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/atmel-tech-on-tour-truck-wifi-iot-workshop-for-samw25-xplained-pro-board-tickets-25285449460?aff=eac2).

The Atmel SAMW25 Xplained Pro board is well suited for enterprise IoT applications. This is a great and more enterprise alternative to the ESP8266 since it has a real dedicated MCU instead of sharing with the Wi-Fi stack. Atmel normally charges $99 per person for this training that they are giving to Charlotte IoT for free! If you are not able to make the cut for the first 30 who register then you will still be able to enjoy a tour of the Atmel truck during the social time after the workshop

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Charles Lord - Lua Classes

Charles is teaching a 5 part class on the Lua scripting language. Lua is a scripting language used on many IoT platforms including the inexpensive and popular ESP8266 processor. Charles is teaching the first 2 classes in a 5 part series that our members can complete the rest of the training online after the event. The second class will be live for Charlotte IoT members and will also be streamed to a typical audience of around 1000 people online! We will need to hold our questions for the second class because only people online will be able to ask questions live, but Charles will answer questions for Charlotte IoT members in the audience when the lecture is done. The remaining parts 3-5 will be availabile as an online webinar and is part of the Design News Continuing Education Center and that the link to the class is http://goo.gl/THXl96 .

Charles J. Lord, PE, is an embedded systems consultant and trainer with over 30 years' experience in system design and development in medical, military, and industrial applications. He teaches a series of popular webinars for Design News magazine on IoT and embedded systems topics. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C. and provides training and consulting services through his company, Blue Ridge Advanced Design, in Asheville, N.C. He is a licensed professional engineer in NC and a senior member of the IEEE. In his volunteer work at the IEEE, he has served at many levels from local to regional to board committees. He is currently the chair of the IEEE NC Council and is general chair of IEEE SoutheastCon 2017 and NC IoT Day 2017.

Rob Skoon - Photon to Azure Weather Hands on Workshop

Rob Skoon is Charlotte IoT’s very own hands on lab coordinator and he has facilitated many popular workshops for our group!

In the Photon hack lab we will be taking a Particle Photon with a temperature and pressure sensor to leverage webhooks to ingest messages into an Azure Event Hub.

From there we will utilize a web front end in Azure to view the real time data.

Show + Tell and Eat - Outside (Moe’s) by the Atmel Truck

This will be a great opportunity to tour the Atmel showroom truck and talk with Atmel/Microchip team about their products! Atmel/Microchip is sponsoring dinner so be sure to thank them! Assuming the weather is nice then we will eat Moe’s Mexican food outside while seeing and talking to all of the show and tell booths.

We will have many tables from Charlotte IoT members who have IoT products or are enthusiastic makers who want to share their knowledge. Please send a message to Dan Thyer over meetup if you would like to have a table to show off your stuff!

We are excited to have the following booths:

• Fred Darnell - Synectric Systems - Arduino based IoT Oil Fracking Water Tank Monitor product

• Clint Patterson - Tech Turkey IoT Controlled Decoy product

• Craig Tucker - ESP8266 Goodness + Other Doodads

• Patrick Graham - RPi2 Maker Goodness

• Mark Ingle - Temperature monitoring device for a dog crate

• Greg Smith, Kori Register, Dan Thyer - Logical Advantage

• Graham Hardy - SnapAV - OvrC IoT product

• Charles Lord - IEEE and Blue Ridge Advanced Design and Automation

Dan Thyer - Charlotte IoT News

Dan Thyer, president of Charlotte IoT, will talk about Charlotte IoT and other activities going on in our community!

Keynote - Rick Terrell

Rick has over 30 years of experience in computing technology and consumer electronics engineering. He was VP of Engineering at Yap Inc., a speech recognition startup acquired by Amazon. Prior to that he helped create the ARM processor and operating system that powered the Apple iPod. Presently, Rick consults on computing projects spanning anything “from silicon to cloud”, in particular, IoT, machine learning, and the occasional “Winston Wolf” fixer gig.

Hacking Amazon Alexa (Echo)

Our good friends at Hackster.io are giving the leadership of Charlotte IoT some Amazon Echos to hack! We will review the API, teach our Echos some new skills and demo a few hacks!

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