Software dev’s guide to hardware hacking
Wednesday, 8:00 PM
The world of hardware hacking has been gaining popularity recently. With the advent of open-source hardware, there’s been tremendous interest in hacking hardware again. In this session, we’ll look at two popular hardware platforms: Arduino and RaspberryPi. We’ll also look at how to integrate the Arduino with Android to build a cheap, complete hardware hacking platform, all written in Java!
We’ll go over the current open hardware scene first. Then we’ll look at how to setup these two platforms. Of course, we’ll write some code and deploy them onto the hardware!
About Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel is the CTO of Atlanta based TripLingo (http://www.triplingo.com/). He wrote the first book on ‘enterprise Java’ in 1996, “Java Database Programming with JDBC.” He has also spoken at various conferences and participates in several local tech groups and startup groups. He’s in the startup world now and hacks iOS, Android, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Rails, and ….. well everything except Perl.
Pratik’s specialty is in large-scale applications for mission-critical and mobile applications use. He has designed and built applications in the retail, health care, financial services, and telecoms sectors. Pratik holds a master’s in Biomedical Engineering from UNC, has worked in places such as New York, London, and Hong Kong, and currently lives in Atlanta, GA.