NoT (Network of Things) workshop

Friday 13 December 11-13h

Bring your laptop to this hands-on workshop and learn to get started with a simple, flexible, and cloudless NoT setup (Network of Things, NoT on the internet) made with free and open source software and inexpensive DIY-friendly parts.  Example code will be provided, so this will be a gentle introduction to coding for hardware for those who have some experience writing software.

Each participant will make (and take home) a “Thing” consisting of an ESP8266 wifi board running MicroPython and some sensors, buttons, and LEDs.

We’ll network our Things together with MQTT, a stripped-down, easy to understand messaging protocol for communicating between devices and we’ll create logic to automate interaction between our Things with Node Red, a very visual, low-code programming interface.  We’ll also use Node Red to create a browser-based dashboard that works with both DIY and commercial IoT devices.

This workshop will be hosted by Trammell and Holly Hudson