Few weeks ago I wrote about upcoming Webinar related to IBM Cloud, Watson and IoT stuff in my area presented by Brian Innes and I had the luck to attend 2nd part face to face. Since my daily job is mostly front end development I was looking for an opportunity to step outside my comfort zone and this workshop sounded like best possible way to do that.
During 6-hour session we were able to play around with IBM Cloud, IoT platform and couple of Watson APIs, like text-to-speech. Even though entire thing was pretty interesting three things really stuck with me:
- Hands on experience with Node-RED - a flow-based programming tool for the Internet of Things, which really simplified the process of creating IoT services. (I wonder why we don't do everything like that)
- Live demo of IBM's TJ bot enhanced by Brian to do couple extra tricks
- Watson IoT platform, that makes managing IoT devices quite easy (including creation of emulated devices)
If you got curious at least a bit, make sure you'll check out recordings of webinars just like the one I attended by John Walicki and Brian Innes. IBM CEE youtube channel published both videos.
Part 1
Part 2
Repository for this workshop can be found at: https://github.com/binnes/iotWebinar
Bonus: A bit more about TJ Bot
Order yours @ https://ibmtjbot.github.io/