Thin Client NodeBots and the future of JS in IoT
summary
A live demo shows a Twitter-driven belt and knit rose lighting up via a DigitalOcean Node server that polls #nodesash and calls a Particle cloud agent; hardware uses a Particle Photon and WS2812 NeoPixels with an Electric Imp alternative mentioned. A new tool, Babble Bots, transpiles a JS build declaration into C so users avoid hand‑writing sketches, moving from ~98% to ~99.9% JavaScript but still constrained by four custom particle functions and flaky Wi‑Fi.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:56Background
- 2:15Thin Client
- 6:28Particle Photon
- 8:18Babble
- 9:54JS File
- 10:44Rose
- 12:22How it works
- 20:51Whats next
