How the IoT will change the way we play

Created by Jenny Tong / mimming.com / @BaconatedGeek

Hi! I'm Jenny.

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I like to help people cause trouble with code.

Agenda Haiku

Bears play

People play

People play

Focus

• A story about a sport: fencing
• Games we can play (safely) with

Why sports?

Sports are serious play

• Athletes are always looking for that edge
• Stay ahead of competitors
• Adopt early

Épée

Electric épée

Épée flick

Olympic electric épée

The Internet of Things

An overloaded marketing buzzword

IoT's playful potential

IoT's playful potential

Robots. Fight!

Red

Blue

?

?

Robots Fight Code

Hardware

var five = require("raspi-io");
var Firebase = require("firebase");

var board = new five.Board();
var firebase = new Firebase("https://robots.firebaseio.com/robots");

board.on("ready", function() {
  var red = new five.Button(24);
  var blue = new five.Button(26);

  red.on("up", function () {
    firebase.child("red").once("value", function(snap) {
      firebase.child("red").set(snap.val() + 1);
  });
  ...
});

Robots Fight Code

Slide

var firebase = new Firebase("https://robots.firebaseio.com/");

firebase.child("robots/red").on("value", function(snap) {
  $("#robot-score-red").text(snap.val());
});
firebase.child("robots/blue").on("value", function(snap) {
  $("#robot-score-blue").text(snap.val());
});
$("#robot-score-reset").click(function() {
  firebase.child("robots/blue").set(0);
  firebase.child("robots/red").set(0);
});

Jenny Speculates

Internet of Rock'em Sock'em Robots, so what?

Successful game concepts, in real life

MMOLARPGS

Children again playing outside

Lego Mindstorms: the gateway robots

THE END

These slides

https://mimming.com/presos/how-iot-will-change-the-way-we-play

These slides' code

https://github.com/mimming/how-iot-will-change-the-way-we-play

Created by Jenny Tong / mimming.com / @BaconatedGeek