12/3-4, a weekend of coding and networking at Simple's new location. Very spacious and modern, as you can see in the photos. They even have a toaster dedicated to "gluten free"! -- overkill, in my opinion. There's also a food scale by the regular toasters.Organized by Women Who Code, with a theme of renewable city. This IoT hackathon is sponsored (maybe instigated) by Intel who provided hardware: Edison compute module, Edison developer kit, Grove starter kit (a set of sensors). 2 weeks previous, a webinar about what software to download and past projects. Friday night is dinner and team forming, which I skipped.
Saturday, I arrived at 9:30, when a scheduled talk by Intel "IoT Evangelist" Grace Metri was supposed to happen. Some connection problem caused more than half an hour delay. Meanwhile, I walked around the tables to find a team to work with, as well as took a bagel and apple for breakfast. I settled down with these 3 ladies: Kelly Becker (developer using Ruby), Ildiko Toth (designer), Christy (program manager, who has done a bunch of these Hackathons before). A guy named Andrew from Treehouse was sitting with us and helping us to debug. There're a few "mentors" walking around, proved to be useless (I was having trouble finding the IP address of my Edison, eventually resolved it myself). We got two sets of hardware, so Kelly and I can both work. We get to keep them! Lunch was sandwich and wraps. Dinner was pizza.
Sunday, repeat the same thing, prepare for demo. Lunch was pizza. The kit you see in the photo is made by Ildiko. She also made nice slides and gave a talk. We managed to get two different LEDs to turn on certain temperatures, and upload data (readings were very different between the two sensors) to the cloud, and made pretty graph which you can see on your cell phone. There are about a dozen teams, the smallest was just two girls. One demo was presented by a guy and demoed by another guy -- I wonder why they are here.
I left Simple in the middle of the presentation. Went to 49th Annual Celebration of Oregon Authors at Oregon Historical Society. Overwhelmed by how many authors there. They are amicable and eager to talk.
