On Saturday June 4th we bring you the first ever Hackster.io + Amazon Alexa workshop!

Liz Myers, who is a Developer Evangelist at Amazon, will be teaching Alexa Skill Building 101 starting at noon. In this talk, intended for software and hardware developers interested in voice control, home automation, and personal assistant technology, we will walk through the development of a new Alexa skill and incorporate it into a consumer-facing device.

The talk will be followed by lunch and an afternoon of hacking. Finish off the day with dinner and incredible prizes sponsored by Amazon.

Alexa is the speech and personal assistant technology behind Amazon Echo. Today you can use Alexa to listen to music, play games, check traffic and weather, control your household devices such as Philips Hue and Belkin WeMo, and lots more. Alexa offers a full-featured set of APIs and SDKs that you can use to teach her new skills and add her into devices and applications of your own.

Worried that your just a beginner and not much of a coder? Don t be! This Hackathon will be suitable for beginners and pros alike. We have examples and tutorials that will get you up to speed with creating your own amazing voice activated Alexa “Skills” for the Echo – come learn and make new nerdy coder friends! Any experience with JavasScript or Python will be a plus but we have a repository of examples you can simply modify to make your own publishable Alexa Skill. Drop in, bring your laptops, your friends, and plenty of time to hack some uber code and hear what Echo has to say.

We invite developers and engineers to learn how to start the development of loT commercial solutions using pre-certified LoRaWAN hardware platforms and mbed.org to quickly create new “connected prototypes” This workshop guides programmers and tech professionals on how to crowd source libraries for sensors and peripherals using a cloud based IDE. Users will learn how to move data from edge sensor/processor to cloud platform as a service using a cellular and Long Range RF LoRa Modules. Product Managers and Business Development Leaders are welcome - learn how to build successful business practices and how to avoid the critical pitfalls of loT development. Industry executives from MultiTech, ARM, Semtech, Senet, and STMicroelectronics will be on hand to share valuable insight on developing and managing solutions in th marketplace. What attendees will learn: • Rapid prototyping using a cloud based compiler • Cellular communication to add macro-network • Crowd sourcing libraries to add drivers from common sensors and peripherals • How to use an application enablement platform to collect and store IoT data, obtain insights from it, and securely publish the data • Best practices for “concept-to-commercial” development and launch of loT solutions Who should attend: • Programmers that are familiar with C++ want to make their devices ‘connected’ • Business Development Managers focusing on IoT, looking to shorten time-to-market • Product Managers and Engineers looking to shorten time-to-development for products and services Space is Limited. Reserve Your Seat Today.

Instruction Provided By: MultiTech, ARM, Semtech, and STMicroelectronics Agenda: Introductions MultiTech, ARM, Semtech, STMicroelectronic 5 Minutes Multitech LoRaWAN and LPWA- Hardware platforms 10 Minutes Sensing the world—STMicroelectronics 10 Minutes ARM –mbed and device manager 10 Minutes Senet--Macro network Provider 10 Minutes Demonstration XDot Development kit 10 Minutes Lab 1 mDot Hello world 30 Minutes

        AT commands to Conduit
        Hello world

Lab 2 Add Sensors X-Nucleo-IKS01A1 30 Minutes Lab 3 Publishing Data to My Device’s Cayenne Platform 30 Minutes

Refreshments / Networking 30 Minutes

Length 3.0 Hours

Laptops are required for the workshop. We will be downloading software. Please make sure that your laptop does not encypt the data on the hard drive. Have questions about Hackster.IO presents MultiTech, ARM, Semtech, Senet, and STMicroelectronics LPWA Prototype to Production Workshop ? Contact Michael Finegan