Devices and Networking Summit – Research in Focus 1, Rapid Device Prototyping

​Presenters: Peli de Halleux, Microsoft Research and Dean Mohamedally, University College London

Hardware 2.0 is upon us: cheap micro-controller boards like Arduino have gained massive adoption in recent years. Paired with 3D printers, cheap sensors and actuators, these allow anyone to prototype the next hot gadget. And yet, the maker will have to learn a soup of software language and framework to build a connected input/output controller solution: C++ for the micro-controller code, HTML + javascript for the client, some backend language and a communication layer to interact with the devices.