Intro to Things Taught by Tim Taylor

An introduction to the internet of things using the ESP8266 with a IoT Dev Kit you get to take home with you!

Summary

Learn how to develop Internet of Things devices using the ESP8266 and come

The ESP8266 is an amazing little chip which has onboard WiFi capabilities, an integrated processor, and also comes at less than $10. This makes it the perfect chip for Internet of things projects.

But what is the internet of things? The defininition of the internet of things is a complex one. The basic explaination is connecting any device with an on and off switch to the Internet. This includes everything from cellphones, coffee makers, washing machines, headphones, lamps, wearable devices and almost anything else you can think of. This can even apply to parts of a larger machine, for example complex devices like jet engines or manufacuring plants have many smaller parts that benifit from being connected to the internet and talking together.



There will be over 26 billion connected devices by 2020. At reforge we want to teach you how to get started building your Own things and maybe you will have the next big million dollar idea, you just need to get started.

Walk away with your own IoT Kit!

The kit has the following equipment in it:

the ESP8266 as a NodeMCU

A 128x64 Blue Organic LED Display

Humidity Sensor

Switches (2)

Resistors (2)

LEDs (2)

Breadboard

Wires (10)

About the instructors

Tim Taylor is an electrical, mechanical, and product design engineer. Tim has an intuitive mind for any design and engineering problem. He works on everything from military power electronics to wearable LED designs to exploding handcuffs. He has projects featured on the Future Weapons TV Show. He has been involved with multiple startups and has a great entrepreneurial spirit. When not designing stuff for work he enjoys designing stuff for fun. It is this reason that Tim has joined forces with a others that relish the same interests as himself to create Reforge Charleston. At Reforge Charleston Tim has a great knack for teaching others and enjoys education as much as his design work.

Agenda

10 Mins What is the Internet of things?

20 Mins Intro to programming the ESP8266?

20 Mins LAB 1: Blink an LED (Hello World for Hardware)

10 Mins LAB 2: Learn How to Read ... Switches that is

15 Mins LAB 3: OLED Display Usage

15 Mins LAB 4: Connect to WiFi

15 Mins LAB 5: Read a twitter Feed

Total 1H 45M

Notes from the organizer



Make sure you bring your laptop, you will not be able to complete the labs without your laptop. If possible to expidite the short class you should download the software at following locations to your laptop:





Photo by Medialab Prado