Part 5: Programming Challenge

Goal

Once you have completed Part 4, sky is the limit. Explore a couple of possibilities where to go from there.

If you have finished the rest of the unplugfest early, build something with the building blocks you just learnt about. Here are some ideas:

Build a dashboard to visualize the motes' data (hint: use the Node-RED node-red-dashboard extension)
Create a control loop: switch the buzzer on when the door closes
Implement your own idea!

Navigation

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Part 0a: Things to prepare before the session — Things to install on your computer and on your IBM Cloud instance before coming to the session.
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Part 0b: Getting Started! — Overview of the hardware you will be using, and of the general organization of the unplugfest.
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Part 1: Your First Standalone Network — Build your very first network, understand how the LEDs indicate the state of the motes, issue simple CLI commands on the manager, understand the use of the netid.
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Part 2: Understanding Trade-Offs in SmartMesh IP — Understand how latency, data rate and energy trade off for one another.
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Part 3: A Canopy Network Coordinated through IBM Watson IoT — How the canopy network, which is already deployed in your building works.
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Part 4: Interact with Sensors and Actuators — Connect sensors and actuators to your mote, and interact with them from your Node-RED instance in the IBM Cloud!
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Part 5: Programming Challenge — Once you have completed Part 4, sky is the limit. Explore a couple of possibilities where to go from there.