Tampa IoT Society - Slide Decks/November 3 2016

Tampa IoT Society - Slide Decks/November 3 2016

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.NET Hacker Room at Code Impact

If you haven’t done so yet, you should register for Code Impact up in Jacksonville on September 13th.

I’ll be hosting a new tradition in FL Code Camps a .NET Hacker Room.  A .NET Hacker Room is a unique experience that will allow you to see and play with some of the latest hardware technology.  

This room will offer things like
- Internet of Things
- 3D Printers
- Quad Copters
- Windows Galileo
- Robots
- Netduino's
- Oculas Rift (V2)
- More!

Also throughout the day, come in for 10-15 minute lightening talks on the above topics.

See you there!

-twb

Inaugural Tampa Internet of Things Society Meeting

As of August 19, 2014, the Tampa Bay .NET Microframeworks Group will start a new Chapter as the Tampa Internet of Things Society meeting.  What’s with the name?  Just seemed appropriate…

Here are the slides from the inaugural meeting.

 

-twb

DataBinding 101 – AppCamp Materials

On June 20, 2014, I will be presenting on DataBinding for your applications at 2014 AppCamp Tampa.

And here are the completed demo files

 

-twb

Announcing S.M.U.G. Dev - Class of 2014.3

Today I’m happy to announce that S.M.U.G. Dev has been picked up for it’s 3rd Season.  If you don’t know what S.M.U.G. Dev is, it’s the Southern Most User Group – Developers.  S.M.U.G. Dev is part geek retreat and part code camp that is completely free for it’s attendees.
We have our annual meeting the Thursday prior to the South Florida Code Camp http://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp/ which happens to fall on February 22, 2014 next year.  Mark your calendar and make travel arrangements to make it down to Conch Republic better known as Key West FL, for S.M.U.G. Dev on February 20th, 2014.

Tentative Schedule

Wednesday February 19th 2014

• 1PM - Annual Kick-Off Lunch at Sloppy Joes
• 3PM-6PM - Group or Individual Site-Seeing
• 6PM - ? – Kick-off Ceremony, last year was Joe’s Tap House

Thursday February 20th 2014

• 8:00 AM - Breakfast
• 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM Morning Sessions
• 12:00 PM -  Lunch
• 12:30 AM – 4:00 PM Afternoon Sessions
• 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Down Time/Site Seeing/
• 5:30 PM Annual Sun-Set Picture at Mallory Square
• 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM After Party
• 9:00 PM – ? After-After Party

Friday February 21st 2014

• 10:00 AM Breakfast (we won’t walk 5mi this year Kelvin :) )
• Caravan and Travel to Speaker Party for South Florida Code Camp.

More details to follow to include available sponsorship packages and call for speakers!
We filled up last years venue and will need to find something bigger for this year.  If you are interested in joining me for a “scouting” mission to Key West sometime this fall, please email me at kevinw@software-logistics.
Come join us and help make S.M.U.G. Dev – Class of 2014.3 the best event to date!
-twb

Windows Phone Developer Days 2013

Come join us at the Tampa Microsoft office on October 18 from 9AM to 5PM for a full day Windows Phone Event.  The format will be a hackathon with some great prizes such as the latest Nokia phones along with some 15/30 minute tutorials on how to leverage some of the powerful features available on the Microsoft stack to get the most out of your investment of time while developing Windows Phone Apps.  These tutorials will include such things:

• Getting Started Breakout
• XAML Tips and Tricks
• Game Maker
• Portable Class Libraries to target both Windows Phone and Windows 8/8.1
• Azure Mobile Services
• Background Agents
• Live Tiles

If you're a veteran Windows or Windows Phone developer or just getting started, you'll be sure to pickup something new and have a fun time doing it.

Please register at: https://tpawp8102013.eventday.com

Tampa Microsoft Office
5426 Bay Center Dr.
Suite 700
Tampa, FL 33609

-twb

Tampa Bay NETMF Meeting – Home Automation on Windows Phone and Windows 8

Starting with this meeting, we will be at the AgileThought, Inc. main office building at Rocky Point.  Doors will open at 6PM on July 16th for food/social with the main presentation starting at 6:30 PM.  Mark your calendar, moving to the AgileThought office will allow us to reserve the room on a consistent night, so right now we are planning on meeting the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6:30PM.

In the July membership meeting we will be going through Kevin Wolf's Windows Phone and Windows 8 application he's calling Lago Vista that he wrote to control his house using Netduino, Insteon, whole house audio, Electric IMP technology as well as some IP cameras.  We will be digging into the code, and discussing what he learned as he installed, configured and programmed over 30 distinct lights and controllers.

Some of the more interesting aspects that he has automated

- HVAC and Heating/Cooling Zone Controllers
- Voice control of IP cameras through a Windows Phone App
- Control of speakers/audio through out the house and back yard with Netduino
- Pool pump, spa/pool diverter and heater control
- Creating multiple scenes for different activities like taking the dogs out and watching movies
- Control temperature of a freezer to achieve a consistent and optimal temperature for fermenting beer

Hope to see you there!

December Tampa Bay NETMF Meeting and Hackathon

When: Meeting - December 20, 6PM-8PM, Hackathon December 21st, 9AM-?
Where: Tampa Microsoft Office, 5426 Bay Center Dr. Suite 700, Tampa FL, 33609

Monthly Membership Meeting

This December we are going to turn our focus to having your small embedded device such as a Netduino communicate to the the Internet.  We will also be looking at the Electric IMP.  Something on the very cutting edge, but also something very cool!

This months geek shopping list

1) Electric Imp and Dev Breakout Board
2) Netduino Plus 2 or Ethernet Shield (Ethernet Shield will attach to your standard Netduino and will require a bit of hacking to get working.  We probably won’t be covering this in our meeting)
3) WiFly and XBee Shield add WiFi to your Netduino, again we won’t be covering this in the meeting but isn’t that difficult to connect and configure.  I’d be happy to answer any questions on this via Email.
4) Pen Type Multi-Meter really helpful once you really start getting into this stuff.

To register for this event, please click here.

NETMF Hackathon

In addition, as a bonus this year, Bill Reiss and I are going to be hosting the Tampa Winter Games and NETMF Hackathon all day on Friday December 21st at the Microsoft office in Tampa.  As we have seen in our nightly meetings, two hours is just enough time to get started with this stuff.  Why not make a full day of it and hang out with some like minded folks getting your “geek" on.  The format will be a couple of talks to kick the day off, you’ll get to hear Bill (great speaker!) get you going on developing games on the Microsoft Platform.  I’ll also give a brief talk on something cool that runs on a very small processor.  Then throughout the day, we’ll have a series of lighting talks to cover small bits and pieces of both gaming and microelectronics.  The primary intent of these events are really just to hang out and work on some cool stuff, along with your peers that might be able to help you if you get stuck on certain areas.  I’ll probably be working on my NiVek QC1 along with some cool new 32 bit hardware and my Windows 8 Ground Station. 

I’ll bring my collection of Netduino Shields and other assorted electronics for folks to play with.

To register for this event click here.

Both events should be a blast, hope to see you there! 

-twb

Files for Windows 8 Direct3D Overview

On November 27, 2012 at the Windows 8 Developer meeting, I gave a very high level overview of DirectX 3D.  This demo included how to render simple triangles as well as how to create a model and render it as a mesh in a Windows Store Application.

 

Hope to spend more time on this in the near future!

-twb

Announcing SMUG Season II

I’m happy to announce that SMUG (Southern Most User Group, Developer Edition) will be happening again this year in Key West FL before the South Florida Code Camp.  SMUG is part mini-Code Camp and part Geek Retreat.  Everyone who attended last year had a great time and commented it’s an event not to miss!

Here’s is our tentative agenda, venues to be announced in December:

February 6, 2012

• 4PM Registration Starts
• 4PM – 7PM Meet and Greet/Welcome Activities
• 7PM – 9PM Dinner
• 9PM – ? Social Activities

February 7

• 9:00AM – 9:15AM – Key Note
• 9:30AM – 12PM Technical Sessions
• 12PM – 2:00PM Annual Lunch at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaretville on Duvall street
• 2:00PM – 4:30PM Technical Sessions
• 4:30PM – 4:45PM Closing Statements
• 5:00PM – 7:00 PM Open, Social, Sight Seeing, Key West Sunset Celebration
• 7:00 PM – Dinner and Social Activities

February 8

• 9:00AM Annual Breakfast at iHop in Key West
• 10:00AM Caravan travel back to Miami for South FL Code Camp

If you are interested in attending, please sign up at http://smugdev2012.eventbright.com

If you are interested in speaking please send an email to beth@bethyork.com with an overview of your topic. We will probably only have one track so depending on the number of speakers we may limit talks to 20-30 minutes.

Speakers will get a highly coveted SMUG speakers shirt, and all attendees will get T-Shirts.

Note – last year sponsorship was light so plan on covering most of your meal, lodging, Travel and entertainment expenses.  If you are interested in sponsoring, please let kevinw@software-logistics.com know.  We’ll be working on getting some discounted hotel rates, but feel free to make your own reservations.

-twb

Tampa Bay NETMF Hacking Group

Announcing Meeting Number 2 of the Tampa Bay NETMF Hacking Group.

To register for the event, please go to http://tbnetmf1211.eventbrite.com

Our second meeting will also be held at the Microsoft Office in Tampa on November 21st at 6:30 PM.  This meeting will be in two parts, the first part going from 6:30-8:00 and will  be lecture/hands on.  The second part will be Show-and-Tell as well as freestyle hacking on your hardware.  If you did something cool between the meetings, come prepared to share!

After a brief recap/intro for any new members, this meeting we will explore basic communications and digital signals with your Netduino .NET Microframeworks device.  Although we will be using a NETMF device the same basic principles will apply to other microcontrollers

• Serial Data Communications to a Host Computer
• Serial Data Communications between two NETMF devices
• Controlling a Servo

Here’s a relatively cheap shopping list of parts to help support your geek habit that will be useful for this meeting:

• Netduino – ~$35.00
• USB to Serial Adapter – ~$15
• Breadboard Jumper Wires – ~$5
• Servo – ~$15
• Breadboard – ~$5 (optional)
• +9V Power Supply ~$7 and +5V adapter ~$10 (optional but will allow your Netduino to run stand-alone)
• Misc. Electronic Components (optional, includes jumper wire and breadboard) ~$13
• Misc. Electronic Components – Mega-Pack! (optional, includes jumper wire, breadboard and a ton of other stuff) ~$23
• Saleae Logic USB Logic Analyzer (very optional, but very cool) – ~$150

Next month, we will be exploring options for getting these small devices on the internet.  Then in January, we will be looking at the Arduino.  Anyone with experience with this want to present?

Hope to see you there!

-twb

Windows Phone 7 Training/SQL Saturday #77 – Pensacola

If you are attending SQL Saturday #77 and are interested in Windows Phone 7 development, you might want to plan on coming a day early.  I will be doing a full day of WP7 training.  We are going to start out from the basics and throughout the day cover a number of topics you’ll need to know to build apps for the real world.  Also I’ve got a number of topics I’m going to cover, but we will have some flexibility in the material, so be sure to bring your real world questions and problems.

You can sign up here.

Then on Saturday, Joe Healy and I will be hosting a Windows Phone 7 Garage where we will provide our experience to help you get a leg up on building your app.

As an added bonus we will be giving away a free production Windows Phone and a copy of Visual Studio 2010.  All you need to do is show us some progress on a WP7 app during the event and you get a raffle ticket to be entered in the drawing.  As an added bonus if you attend my training on Friday, you will receive a bonus ticket to be entered into the drawing, so come to my training, start working on a phone app, have a good time and have a chance to win some awesome goodies! 

Of course there will be plenty of swag to give away.

Hope to see you there!

-twb

Presentation Materials - ONETUG

On April 21, 2010, I had (or will have since I’m writing this before the presentation) the privilege to discuss Windows Phone 7 at the Orlando .NET User Group or ONETUG.

My talk is/was broken into tree parts:

Part 1) Code/Quick Tips:

1. Create a Theme-able Image and an overview of how to use it from DevFish
2. Lock in your colors for a Windows Phone 7 App
3. Do a work-around for a Data Binding Bug
4. Walk through on concepts surrounding Tombstone-ing

Part 2) Overview of new Mango Features, power point presentation.

• Link to ALL the Windows Phone 7 sessions at Mix.

Part 3) Check out the Florida Windows Phone 7 Developer site and subscribe to the Live Group for upcoming releases and announcements.

Also be sure to check out DevFish’s Windows Phone Garage II Events

-twb

OuttaGas – Materials from SWFL Code Camp Presentation

On September 25, 2010, at South West Florida Code Camp I presented a talk on a tour of some “some-what” advanced Windows Phone 7 topics.

Enjoy!

-twb

SW Florida .NET Developers Group

Tonight (August 17, 2010) I’ll be doing a little talk about about a hot technology you might have heard of called Windows Phone 7.

The first part of the talk will be dedicated to a quick overview of development for Windows Phone 7.  We won’t dwell on C# or Silverlight but will build three little applications that should give an overview of the development environment for Windows Phone:

• W.O.P.R. – Slightly more exciting than “Hello World”
• KLIK2WIN – Very simple silverlight game
• John’s Game – Well you’ll have to attend to see what this one is about

The file for my presentation include both a step-by-step lab and the completed working applications.  You can download the files from here.

The second part of the talk should be a lot of fun, John asked that the user group members come up with Windows Phone 7 applications.  The group will then vote on the best app and we’ll talk about what it would take to implement it and start building the application frameworks.  We certainly won’t have time to finish the application but should be able to get an idea of what would be involved.

Hope to see you all there!

-twb

Speaking at Sarasota .NET VS2010 Launch Event

Tonight I’m speaking at the Sarasota .NET Launch Event.

In one hour, I’m going to attempt to cover:

• Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development
• What’s new in Silverlight 4

I’ll probably go pretty quick so if we don’t cover everything, you can download the materials from the link below:

Download Resource Files

Hope to see you all there!

-twb

XAML Is Your Friend – Tampa SLUG Presentation

On May 12, 2010 I will be presenting a rapid fire overview of the most important concepts a developer needs to know to work with XAML to develop Silverlight Applications.  The primary focus here is not so much on design but how to hand-code XAML when Expression Blend is really overkill or you just need to knock out a quick forms-over-data application and feel more comfortable working in Visual Studio 2010.

The following are the topics that make up this demo

• Layout – What are the key concepts you must understand to layout your controls in XAML, this starts with the Grid, StackPanel and Canvas containers
• Resources –How to create Resources, Styles and Control templates that can be used to create a consistent user interface
• Simple Data Binding – Overview of the syntax for doing simple data binding between controls on a form
• Value Converters – Value Converts are a very easy yet powerful way to extend the usefulness of XAML
• User Controls – Review creating a simple data form using a user control
• Somewhat more advanced Data Binding – Bind to a simple collection and then use selected items to populate a form.

Download the presentation and materials here.  These materials require Visual Studio 2010 and the Silverlight 4 SDK

enjoy

-twb