021: with Francis Gulotta

In this episode we had Francis Gulotta as our guest, who was on stage of jQuery 2014 talking about nodebots and demoing a nodecopter controlled by a hoodie. We talked about nodebots, how to get started and teaching coding.

Download: .mp3, .ogg, .opus

Show notes:

On nodebots

• nodebots
• Chris Williams
• Chris Williams's blog (runs on Ghost :) )
• SaferAging
• johnny-five
• nodecopter

On hardware

• https://pinocc.io/
• http://www.arduino.cc/
• parrot drone
• mesh network
• spark core
• Arduino UNO R3
• Adafruit
• Raspberry Pi Starter Kit

On education

• Work Force 1
• Thoughtbots
• Rdio's code quality tool: jsfmt
• gnode: enable ES6 features in node
• Long discussion on Ghost about front end tech (issue 2144)

On Francis

• http://neighborgoods.net/ - project he's working on
• Twitter: @reconbot
• Wizard Blog
• Wizard Development
• Nodebots day