3 SIGNAL Speakers to Get You Started with the Internet of Things

3 SIGNAL Speakers to Get You Started with the Internet of Things

Tired of watching your Arduino collect dust on your desk? We’ve got three rad speakers queued up at SIGNAL to get you started with hardware hacking and the Internet of Things.

Katy Moe Live Codes her Hand

Katy Moe is a cyborg. Literally. She implanted an NFC transponder in her hand that runs JavaScript. Her talk at SIGNAL is about the opportunities and pitfalls of open hardware for the human body. She’ll introduce us to NFC protocols by live-coding on stage and deploying an app to her hand.

Kristin Salomon talks Hardware Hacking for Software People

If want to get started in hardware hacking but have no experience with electronics and soldering, this session is for you. littleBits are electronic building blocks that snap together magnetically and can connect to the Internet via WiFi. Kristin Salomon is an Electronics Engineer at littleBits and gave such a great talk at SIGNAL 2015 that we asked her to come back. This year, live on stage, she’ll create a personal alarm system using littleBits and Twilio SMS Alerts.

Kassandra Perch talks NodeBots

If you know a little bit of JavaScript, then you’ve got everything you need to make some robots move. NodeBots are robots controlled by Node.js. They’re a ton of fun to play with and have been used from SumoBot Battles to Bullfighting quadracopters.  

Kassandra Perch, a.k.a the nodebotanist, has given talks around the world about their love for NodeBots. At SIGNAL, Kassandra will talk about the NodeBots gaming table they built last year and how you can use bluetooth, WiFi and third-party APIs with your NodeBots projects. For an idea of what you might see, check out their talk from last year’s Front Porch Conference:

Join Us

On May 24th and 25th, over 2,000 developers and 100 speakers will come together in San Francisco to have a conversation about the future of communications. But we’re missing one crucial voice: yours. We’d love to have you join us at SIGNAL.