Digital Media SIG

Building the Internet of Things with Electric Imp
With Matt Haines, Developer Community Manager, Electric Imp

http://electricimp.com

Description:
Electric Imp – Connected Devices Made Simple – An Introductory Workshop

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Electric Imp makes it simple to bring the Internet to your devices. With imp connectivity you can empower your devices with intelligence, customization, and convenience. The possibilities are endless.

The imp is a powerful, yet tiny, hardware module that runs the imp OS. Our operating system provides the foundation to build advanced features and services for your devices, and it works with the imp Cloud to provide seamless and secure connectivity of your devices to software, third party services and external servers. Our solution gives your customers the simplest WiFi setup using our patent-pending BlinkUp technology, and with connectivity you’ll be able to monitor the health and activity of your devices in the field and roll-out updates at anytime… and from anywhere.

Matt Haines, Developer Community Manager, Electric Imp
Matt Haines is a Maker, and the Developer Community Manager at Electric Imp. Before moving to the Bay Area, Matt helped found CrashBang Labs, a hackerspace in his hometown of Regina, SK (Canada).
You can find Matt on Twitter (@beardedinventor), or reach him at matt [at] electricimp.com

Location:
Qualcomm Inc. Building B
3165 Kifer Road Santa Clara, CA 95051-0804

Agenda:
6:30 PM Registration and Networking
7:00 PM -8:30 PM Presentations

Price:
No charge for SVForum members
$20 at the door for non-SVForum members

Registration:
https://svforum.org/Digital-Media/Building-Internet-Things-Electric-Imp

“Rapid Iteration for an Internet of Things – Tempo Automation”
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As rapidly as the fastest growing platform shifted from desktop to mobile, mobile itself now finds the attention shifting to a highly-diverse plethora of devices that are carried, worn, and used in brand new ways. New devices and ecosystems are emerging in entirely new form factors. Because their impact is often based on scale of use, device prototypers are now in need of ways to rapidly produce prototypes at scale. In short, this means rapidly iterating the Internet of Things.

Many fields already benefit from high speed iteration that scales – Lean Startup for business, Agile for software, and 3D printing for mechanical design. Tempo Automation has now developed a robot that brings this capability to electronics.

The current options for making low volumes of circuit boards are unattractive, to put it mildly. Either wait weeks to get a board back from a board house, or strain your fine motor skills trying to build multiple boards yourself. Tempo Automation aims to fix this problem with “Electronics Factory”, a reliable, easy to use, desktop robot. Think “MakerBot”, but optimized for electronics. The objective is to provide a robot that etch traces, applies solder paste, places components, reflows, and even tests. Tempo Automation releases each of these capabilities as they become available.

Our presenters, Co-founder and CEO Jeff McAlvay and Co-founder and CTO Markus Rokitta, will demo the latest production unit, and describe how rapid iteration will transform not only the startup landscape, but advance the impact of the emerging realm of things that generate and report connected data.

Jeff McAlvay, Co-founder and CEO, Tempo Automation (http://tempoautomation.com/). Previously, Jeff worked in industrial supply company McMaster-Carr’s leadership development program. There, his roles included warehouse operations design, sales, and product management. He currently runs the Bay Area Factory Tours Meetup group, and coordinates office hours that connect hardware startups with industry experts.

Markus Rokitta, PhD; Co-founder and CTO, Tempo Automation.
Markus received his PhD in Engineering from the University of Queensland in Australia. Since then, he has designed and manufactured a small form-factor MRI machine and has managed medical device programs at companies including Carl Zeiss and BIT Analytic Instruments, in countries including the US, Germany, and China.

Location:
Qualcomm Inc. Building B
3165 Kifer Road Santa Clara, CA 95051-0804

Agenda:
6:30 PM Registration and Networking
7:00 PM -8:30 PM Presentations

Price:
$20 at the door for non-SVForum members unless you pre-register.
No charge for SVForum members

* For this month only, for members and non-members, there is no cost to attend – if you pre-register. Click here to pre-register. If you do not pre-register, the cost to attend is $20.00 at the door.

Kindoma: Bridging Distance Using Shared Family Storytime
Increasingly, families are struggling with distance; in the US alone, half of grandparents live over 200 miles away from their grandchildren. In this talk, we will summarize our field research on how families with young children cope with distance and how the technologies they use both help and fall short. We’ll use the findings from this fieldwork to motivate a multi-year exploration in enabling families to read books together at a distance. We’ll give an overview of the design and evaluation of 3 research prototypes: Family Story Play (mobile + physical books), Story Visit (web), and People in Books (depth camera). The talk will culminate in a discussion on how we’ve commercialized these ideas at Kindoma with the launch of our Kindoma Storytime app for the iPad.

Rafael ‘Tico’ Ballagas, Co-founder & CEO of Kindoma (http://www.kindoma.com)
Dr. Rafael ‘Tico’ Ballagas is the Co-founder & CEO of Kindoma where he is creating products to connect children with their long distance loved ones through reading activities. Before Kindoma, Tico was at Nokia Research Center where he lead the research and development of a multi-year exploration of technologies to help families read books together at a distance (see http://connectedreading.com). He earned his Doctorate in computer science at RWTH Aachen University in Germany with a focus on improving the design of pervasive computing experiences, and culminating in the creation of REXplorer, a pervasive game for young tourists that “sounds like magic” (NY Times). He completed his B.S. with highest honors in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, and M.S. from Stanford University.

Location:
Qualcomm Inc. Building B
3165 Kifer Road Santa Clara, CA 95051-0804

Agenda:
6:30 PM Registration and Networking
7:00 PM -8:40 PM Presentations

Price:
$20 at the door for non-SVForum members unless you pre-register.
No charge for SVForum members
For this month only, for members and non-members, there is no cost to attend – if you pre-register. Click here to pre-register. If you do not pre-register, the cost to attend is $20.00 at the door. Thank you.