NE Dev #8

Talks this time include:

Protect your home with rIoT gear - Gareth Midwood

We all like going on holiday. Unfortunately, bad people like it when we go on holiday too. Does switching a lamp on at 6pm every night really deter a burglar? Does their burglary sense tingle when you don't open the curtains for a week?

What if we protected our homes with an army of connected robots...robots that could open & close curtains, turn on the lights, take a photo of people when they approach the door - and what if you could check on the state of things while you're on the beach sipping a pina colada?

Armed with some node and an Internet of Things, here's what we'll do..

Reconstructing 3D Models from Drone Flights - Andrew Hatch

In 5 minutes we will take a whistle-stop tour of using structure-from-motion to recreate the world around us as textured 3d models.

Realtime apps and RethinkDB - Matt Collins

Taking a look at building realtime apps with RethinkDB - an open-source database for the realtime web. We'll talk about realtime apps, the problems faced when trying to build them to scale, and how RethinkDB can be used to solve these problems.

Plus as always Pizza and Drinks!