[GDG NYC] Android Things & DIY RoboCars

The focus of our August event will be on Internet of Things with some focus on Android Things and DIY Robocars.

Tentative Agenda:

4:00pm <=== THINGS CAMP ===>

Show up early if you want to spend 2 hours on self-guided hacking on an AndroidThings project. We will have a couple of kits available - we also encourage you to bring your own RPi3 boards or AndroidThings kits if you have them.

The plan:

4:00-4:30pm: Learn. Watch first part of "IoT Bootstrapping with AndroidThings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMGOGEgOEXc)" to understand platform.

4:30-6:00pm: Hack. Work on an AndroidThings project on your own.

• Beginners are encouraged to do the Create your first AndroidThings tutorial (https://developer.android.com/things/training/first-device/index.html). You must have an AndroidThings compatible device or development board (https://developer.android.com/things/hardware/developer-kits.html) (+ cables) and a periperhal kit (https://developer.android.com/things/hardware/developer-kits.html#featured_peripherals) to complete this activity. We have a couple of kits available that groups can share - but you would be best served by bringing your own hardware to learn on.

• If you've done the first tutorial. then explore other codelabs like the Weather Station Codelab (https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/androidthings-weatherstation/#0) (Peripheral I/O Library), the Image Classifier Codelab (https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/androidthings-classifier/index.html?index=..%2F..%2Findex#0) (TensorFlow Library, requires camera module) or Android Things Assistant Codelab (https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/androidthings-assistant/index.html?index=..%2F..%2Findex#0) (Voice UI/UX, requires AIY Kit VoiceHAT)

• If you want to bring an ongoing AndroidThings project to work on, extend or share - that is okay too. Explore a hackster.io project, or even better -- publish your own!

Don't have hardware? Not into AndroidThings? That's okay -- this is a Study Camp segment. Pick any codelab (https://codelabs.developers.google.com) focused on any technology you wanted to learn -- PWA, Polymer, Android, Cloud, Machine Learning -- doesn't matter. Just spend 2 hours of immersive hacking & learning. Then share.

6:00-6:30pm: Share. Take 2 minutes to share what you learnt, or demo something you built. The goal is to learn together so every bit helps - what did you like? what challenges did you face? what did you want to build? what do you think you might do next?

6:00pm <=== DOORS OPEN FOR REGULAR MEETUP ===>

We'll share a few announcements at the end of the show-n-tell segment from the StudyCamp above before we kick off the tech talks segment.

6:30 pm: Android RoboCars (Antonio Zugaldia)

Abstract:

Android recently announced Android Things, a version of Android that runs on IoT devices like the popular Raspberry Pi. In this session we’ll show you how to use Android Things to build a robocar: a small autonomous car. We’ll review all the (off-the-shelf) hardware components that you need, and how they fit together. We’ll also show you the Android code that controls the robocar. You can use a NES controller to move your robocar, but with Tensorflow and Computer Vision it can drive itself.

Visit http://www.androidrobocar.com (http://www.androidrobocar.com/) to access all the materials.

Android Robo Cars @hackster.io: https://hackster.io/android-robocar/android-robocar-553991 (http://hackster.io/android-robocar/android-robocar-553991)

7:30 pm: Sentinel Plus (Oscar Salguero)

Abstract: On this talk, we'll dive deep into how Sentinel was built. Sentinel is the first home security robot 100% powered by Google Cloud and Android Things. You will see how Sentinel components are connected, plus a look at the source code, google cloud services, third party open source libraries and other stuff you can use to build your own.

Sentinel @hackster.io: https://www.hackster.io/oscarsalguero/sentinel-8234b3

8:00 pm: DIY Robocars NYC (Liam Bowers)

Abstract: With the DIY Robocars group, we hope to spur the rise of the Homebrew Computing Club for the autonomous vehicle industry: an opportunity for amateurs, researchers, and DIYers to participate in this burgeoning field in a way that is accessible, affordable, and fun.

More info at http://byosdc.com (http://byosdc.com/).

Join the DIY Robocars NYC Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/DIY-Robocars-NYC/).

8:30pm <=== DOORS CLOSE ===>

https://www.nxp.com/assets/images/en/logos-external/ANDROID-THINGS.png