ARDUINO DRINKING GAME
EXTRAVAGANZA

Nikolai Onken, Tobias Schneider & Stephan Seidt
October 1st, 2011

OMG THANX <3

Javscript, Hardware and ❤

Embedded Hardware

Design and build as an integral part of a system or device

def("to embed“)

Necessary to make complete; essential or fundamental.

def(“integral”)

Key factor: Capabilities

Plug sensors, motors or LEDs into pins on the board
Great for building hardware prototypes

or

Plug ethernet, monitors and peripherals into designated ports
Great for building software-centric products

Key factor: Complexity

Low complexity: Few layers of abstraction
Programming is quite close to the hardware.

or

High complexity: Many layers of abstraction
You move farther away from the hardware

Key factor: Costs

Cheaper embedded hardware enables developers!

Poll

How many of you have programmed an Arduino?

How many of you have programmed a normal computer?

Turning point?

Raspberry Pi Specs

700MHz ARM11 CPU
GPU w/ OpenGL ES 2.0
128M RAM
HDMI video output
USB 2.0 port
SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot

How much?

$25 or about €19

WTF?!

node-serialport

https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport

node-espresso

https://github.com/tobeytailor/espresso