Prison Break - When the web escapes the browser

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Three concrete paths for running JavaScript on hardware with working examples and limits: use cloud APIs or MQTT to control an esp8266 LED lamp via Twilio Sync (works, pulses on Twitch online), tethered Node via Johnny-Five to emulate a belly button with an optocoupler so a toy porg screams on build failures (built and reliable), and untethered JS on boards like Tessel to run a RESTful coffee API that triggers relays to brew (prototype succeeds after wiring and protocol workarounds).

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:31How many of you have a Microcontroller?
3. 0:49Hardware Hacking Web Developers
4. 4:10Three ways to combine JavaScript & Hardware
5. 19:35Example #porgjs Building your own custom peripheral
6. 29:41Pros Hardware independent code with 35
7. 36:03Goals Control an existing device programatically
8. 48:01Pros Untethered systems running JavaScript Familar programming language Use familiar tools Bring your own Editor/IDE potentially use the npm ecosystem

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