Building Your Own Internet of Things: How to Connect All of Your Stuff to the Interwebs
summary
Builds an actual needy houseplant called Plant-Bot that sends and receives text messages and posts light events, using JavaScript, Express and hardware glue; hosts the API locally on an Intel Edison and tunnels for Twilio‑style SMS. Compares concrete boards (Adafruit Flora, Particle Photon, Arduino Yun, Edison), sensors (light, accelerometer, gas), BLE beacons for location, and tradeoffs like battery life, washability, CPU for image processing and whether the prototype reliably triggers messages.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:16What is IOT
- 13:00Gas Sensors
- 15:11Beacons
- 17:25Cloud Services
- 18:38IBM Starter Membership
- 20:27Smart Dog
- 20:43Turmeric
- 22:08Beacon Detection
- 23:28Outro
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