I had a great conversation with Jenae Ramos, UX designer and co-organizer of Orlando’s Downtown UX Meetup, talking about design and the Internet of Things. Jenae joked that designing for the screen involves many permutations of “fancy rectangles.” While that is completely…
What are the differences between ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, and the Internet of Things? These terms are full of subtleties, but my simplified is simply that the Internet of Things is ubiquitous or pervasive computing in a more limited scope. Ubiquitous and…
When I think about the future, often in the realm of technology, I tend to look specifically at computers and even more narrowly the Internet of Things (which is kind of my thing). I read Ars Technica, Tom’s Hardware, and Reddit,…
This past Saturday I made the short trek to Disney Springs with my wife, father, and his girlfriend to get some dinner and catch the holiday light show. I had seen some footage provided by Intel so I knew…
Confidence is a kind of high. You see the world a little brighter, your stride becomes a strut, and colors are saturated. It’s also a high in the sense it’s not the constant state of things. As a professional,we take…
In a recent panel we had at the Orlando IoT Meetup, we were discussing the future of the Internet of Things. Ashley Simmons, the Director of Innovation at the Florida Hospital, gave some insight to the future of healthcare when…
Is the Internet of Things a fad? If you want the “Too Long, Didn’t Read” version: No. It’s actually been here a while and the concept won’t be going away any time soon, although it will undoubtedly change form as technology…
As the organizer of Orlando IoT, I don’t get a lot of 101-level questions about the Internet of Things. Typically, the questions are like the one I was asked recently that went something like this: “How do I get two Arduinos to…
The OrlandoJS Meetup gave me the opportunity to present on the Pebble watch app that I created in the form of a 5-minute lightning talk. I created this app using the Pebble IDE. Basically, it’s an “On” and “Off” button…
August’s meetup was full (chock-full, even) of lightning talks. We had some great and varied projects discussed. In order: “Bats on the Web” by Jerry Reed Jerry Reed, a professor at Valencia University, introduced us to a project he and…
