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IoT at Liverpool Makefest 2019

Makefest celebrates it's 5 year annivesary this year! We participated with a stand at the 2019 event and built an immersive Internet of Things gaming experience, called Wack-a-Light to engage with those attending and learn more about Kotlin, Firebase and IoT for ourselves.

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Exploring IoT, My First Build - DMX Revolving Art Installation

A journey through my first IoT project, bringing together the worlds of technology and art

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IoT at Liverpool Makefest 2018

We participated with a stand at the 2018 event and built an immersive Internet of Things gaming experience to try and engage those attending and learn more about Redux, Firebase and Android Things for ourselves. So here's our review on what we did and what we learnt.

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Android Things - Hackster.IO Competition IoT possibilities

HacksterIO recently launched a competition with Google & NXP to explore new AndroidThings IoT concepts. Here we run through the Novoda entries and get some insights from the authors. Novoda

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IoT @ Google Developer Days - Krakow 2017

After an amazing event, this blog gives you the lowdown on all things IoT at GDD Krakow 2017. Google Developer Days (GDD) Krakow was a global event showcasing the latest

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Porting a python library to Android .. Things - The InkypHat

Android Things allows you to create driver libraries around your IoT peripherals. This is a powerful platform feature allowing you to use peripherals without needing to know the low level

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Android Things & IoT @ Liverpool Makefest

MakeFest Liverpool is a family-friendly event celebrating low level technologies, hardware, hacking and making. We participated again with a stand at the 2017 event and built two fun Internet of

testing & QA

Testing your first Android Things driver

Controlling any peripheral device from an Android Things board requires a driver. If no driver is available it's down to you to write your own. Once that's written, how do

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Android Things Architecture - Sensors & Actuators

Android Things works by creating an Android app and tying it to peripherals using User Drivers. These peripherals come in a variety of forms, this post will explore their differences

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Writing your first Android Things driver

Android Things is a lightweight version of the Android operating system that can be installed on IoT-focused devices. Android Things includes 'user drivers' functionality, enabling developers to easily control a

testing & QA

Testing Android Things - IoT meets Java

Google has just announced the amazing Android Things. This gives the Internet of Things (IoT) a real jump start with the availability of the Android ecosystem and all the open

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Five reasons why Android developers should start developing for the internet of things

The “internet of things” (IoT) is simple: everyday objects that have internet connectivity and sensors that can gather, transmit and receive information. But why does this ubiquitous functionality affect you

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Liverpool MakeFest, See, Say & … Superwoman?

MakeFest Liverpool is a family-friendly event celebrating low level technologies, hardware, hacking and making! We had a stand at the 2016 event and built two interesting prototypes to try and