Week of May 27, 2015

[tcr]

Goals for next week:

• Tessel 2 content / pictures
• First-party tessel blog posts
• Contribution guidelines and options
• Hopefully a manufacturing update

[Frijol]

Since May 13:

Engineering

• New batch of boards came in https://twitter.com/technicalhumans/status/604004201975296000

Projects

• Tank robot with stepper motors by Sean Dutton https://twitter.com/seantdutton/status/598828578139152384
• Hackers at DragonHack built a Myo-controlled robot car https://twitter.com/MLHacks/status/599930571154939904
• Steve Caldwell hacked a Tonka truck with his son https://twitter.com/stevecaldwell/status/599632433135386624
• Yodazone by Anubhooti Pareek helps relieve stress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tFhtU6F1bk
• No Stair Runner, by Ella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBFUclx7NlU
• A car that runs from light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKIr_A3dpGE&feature=youtu.be&a
• Zac Colley made a new community module! Now you can use a thermal printer from Tessel: https://github.com/zaccolley/tessel-thermalprinter
• I'm not sure, I think this is a hello world? Does anyone speak Japanese? https://twitter.com/milkotn/status/605329071602466817

Blogs

• Sending RFID Events in Realtime by PubNub http://www.pubnub.com/blog/sending-rfid-events-in-realtime-w-tessel-rfid-module/
• Acting on RFID Events in Realtime (part 2) by PubNub http://www.pubnub.com/blog/acting-on-tessel-rfid-events-with-tessel-rfid-module/
• Tessel 2: placa de desarrollo para el IoT http://www.linuxadictos.com/tessel-2-placa-de-desarrollo-para-el-iot.html
• Tessel Camera module + Project Oxford Face APIs http://hypernephelist.com/2015/05/18/tessel-camera-project-oxford-face-api.html
• Offenes Entwicklerboard soll wie Io.js verwaltet werden http://www.golem.de/news/tessel-offenes-entwicklerboard-soll-wie-io-js-verwaltet-werden-1505-114218.html
• Remote Control and Monitoring for Tessel Servo by PubNub http://www.pubnub.com/blog/remote-control-and-monitoring-for-tessel-servo/
• The Time I Took my 6 Year Old to a Hackathon by Tim Lytle http://www.programmableweb.com/news/time-i-took-my-6-year-old-to-hackathon/analysis/2015/05/21

Tessel around the world

• Julian Cheal presented about JS Hardware Hacking at JS Conf Budapest https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/status/598870106567999488
• SAP held a Tessel CodeJam in the Netherlands https://twitter.com/Sygyzmundovych/status/604295000491446272
• Microsoft Azure held an IoT hackathon in Stockholm https://twitter.com/bjorn_eriksen/status/603862010300919808
• Tessel was at WearHacks Paris, a wearables + IoT hackathon https://twitter.com/BenoitDat/status/602494338581528576
• IoT Projects Showcase at Xoriant in Sunnyvale http://rominirani.com/2015/06/02/iot-projects-showcase/
• Wouter Verweirder presented Node on hardware at Hookedfest in Belgium https://twitter.com/wouter/status/605673683663880192

[johnnyman727]

This is really cool too: https://github.com/andrewcashmore/node-lego-ir

[Frijol]

There's also this nice setup video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOtHm11PepQ

[tcr]

Collab here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qRBhy3QUScNtwDRTUNvVzjS_O4_MbWl1YCgkbCsjOXM/edit?usp=sharing