Resources

A (growing) collection of resources that are relevant to this community, created by friends, or both. See something that needs including? Ping us! We provide a range of resource including lists of relevant reading, research, events, and others. Our own publications and research we share is listed at /publications/. Enjoy!

Reading lists

• Engine Room Library Short intros, briefings and further info around topics related to data and technology for social change
• IoT Bookshelf An impeccably curated list of books about IoT by Alexandra DS, host of the IoT London meetup
• Postscapes: Top Internet of Things Books An organized a list of books from basics like using an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi to developing a connected prototype.
• Thingclash Critical IoT Reading List Excellent collection of critical IoT articles.

Podcasts

• Stacey Higginbotham: IoT Podcast

Projects & networks

• Mozilla OpenIoT Studio Github repo for all projects, documentation, links, and outputs of to the OpenIoT Studio.
• Global Innovation Gathering GIG is a global community of innovation hub founders, community managers, makers and hackers based on grassroots development and cooperation.

Research & publications

• [book] Higher education in the time of IoT by Boris Adryan. Publication expected in late 2016.
• [research] The Good Home Exploringideas for better 21st century urban living in tech-savvy households. By Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino and Peter Bihr.
• [research] ThingClash Framework for considering cross-impacts and implications of colliding technologies, systems, cultures and values around the Internet of Things by the Changeist crew.
• [ebook] Understanding the connected home by Michelle Thorne & Peter Bihr

Events we like

• Mozfest (London) Mozilla’s festival for the open web.
• .process (Dortmund) .process attempts to make the hidden outcomes of working processes visible. Co-founded by Simon Höher.
• Open IoT Assembly (London) The Open IoT Assembly, organized by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, aims to define what an Open IoT should look like in 2017.

Design tools

• IoT Service Kit by Ricardo Brito & Paul Houghton (Futurice)
• Know Cards by Tina Aspiala with support from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

Also, check out all the local ThingsCon events.