[Online] Sander van de Velde - IoT Beer Lift + David Whitney - Gameboy Emulator

Sponsored by PJG Creations Ltd, Tech Nottingham, Stkrs & JetBrains.

This month we welcome our new Sponsor... Tech Nottingham! Thanks so much to them for sponsoring our Zoom License.

Tech Nottingham is an organisation with the mission to Make Nottingham a better place to live and work in technology.

Do go ahead and check them out here;

https://www.technottingham.com/

About the Event:

We'll be kicking off at 18:30GMT for an open networking chat on Zoom, before kicking our talks off at 7PM.

Do feel free to head over to https://zoom.us & create yourself an account as well as downloading the client to your favourite machine!

We'll also be streaming the Meetup on YouTube.

We'll tweet out the link as soon as we know what it is!

If you struggle at all, then get in touch ASAP so we can help!

What we'll be doing:

Sander van de Velde - How to build an Azure IoT Edge connected Beerlift

Microsoft offers a wide range of IoT solutions. With Azure IoT Edge, it brings zero-touch provisioning and deployment of logic to your local network. Combined with a secure cloud connection, it is a powerful combination so let’s do something fun with that!

In this session, you learn about what Azure IoT Edge can offer you, what the benefits are, how it works, and what you need to get started.

For some unknown reason, technology like cloud and IoT goes very well together with beer.

So to make it more visual, Azure IoT Edge will be demonstrated using an internet-connected beerlift. A demonstration shows which hardware is needed and how it interacts using the cloud to serve you the right beer.

David Whitney - An artistic exploration into building Internet connected circuit sculptures:

A teardown of building and porting Game Boy emulators, written in cross-platform C# running in .NET Core.

We'll deal with how machine code really works, how it's translated to opcodes, and how real time emulation works, all in this hour-long deep dive into emulation in .NET.

Expect to learn about low level emulation, software porting, building debuggers and why you should always do things for fun.

Our speakers:

Sander van de Velde:

Sander van de Velde is an Azure IoT Platform architect for the past five years. Next to that, he is a full-stack Software architect and developer for 25+ years.
Sander (short for Alexander) is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) now four years in a row. He is awarded due to eg. the blogs he writes, the workshops he offers, and the presentations he gives, all about Azure IoT. Sander also works together with the Azure IoT product teams to make the IoT ecosystem even better.
Sander is one of the founders of the Dutch Azure IoT Community.
He is the owner of IoT Edger.

You can reach him at:

Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/svelde
Blog: http://blog.vandevelde-online.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/iot-edge-foundation
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandervandevelde/
MVP Profile: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5002324

David Whitney:

David is the founder of Electric Head Software, working as an independent software consultant based in London focusing on iterative software delivery, developer mentoring and cultural change - mostly working with London-based organisations and start-ups.

David has previously served as the chief coding technical architect for JustGiving, and helped market-leading organisations including JUST-EAT, Trainline and Vodafone improve their technical capabilities.

You can find his open source projects on NuGet and GitHub.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/david_whitney
Blog: http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk/Blog
Website: http://www.electricheadsoftware.com and http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk

Swag:

We'll be giving away a JetBrains license to one lucky attendee!