Javascript workout at Reasons to be Creative 2014

After last year’s elevator pitch I was invited back to gave a full talk this year. I wanted to elaborate on javascript and hardware interaction, while linking everything to a general theme. I went for “physical workouts”, and built some demos that had to do with that.

During my talk, I covered different libraries & hardware platforms:

• Bluetooth LE & the noble library
• Pulse Sensor
• Spark Core
• Johnny-five
• Cylon.JS
• Tessel
• Spacebrew

I wanted to keep things fun and interactive for the audience as well. So I invited people on stage to play heartrate controlled games and dance mat challenges. All built using javascript!

The people from AnalogFolk captured a nice video of one of the demos:

You can find my presentation and demos on Github. Enjoy!