IoT for beginners - Lesson 3, Interact with the Physical World

Welcome to #JulyOT! All throughout the month of July the IoT teams at Microsoft are inviting you to join us in learning all about this fast growing and popular technology. You can read more about #JulyOT and catch all our great resources at https://aka.ms/JulyOT.

This lesson introduces two of the important concepts for your IoT device - sensors and actuators. Sensors read data from the physical world, actuators control it, and this lesson looks in more depth at how this happens, covering analog and digital hardware (and what these terms mean). You will also see how to build a nightlight with a microcontroller, using sensor data to control an actuator.

Speaker:
Jim Bennett, Regional Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Jim is a Regional Cloud Advocate focusing on building out and skilling communities in the Pacific North West, with a focus on the Microsoft Reactor in Redmond, Washington. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and is happy he moved to Redmond in time to be locked down at home and not see the office he came to work in, or the places he wanted to visit. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organized meetup groups and communities, and written a book on mobile development.

Accommodations
If you are in need of any accommodations to attend this event, please email Reactor@Microsoft.com and we will do our best to support you.