Hackster Hardware Weekend Boston - Alex, Monica, Adam - ARM and Intel.

Hackster Hardware Weekend May 9/10, 2015 - Boston Black Falcon Pier and Drydock area at MassChallenge venue.

Great presentations by Arrow Freescale, UDOO, Softlayer, Intel Edison and AutoDesk Fusion 360. Leap Motion and 1Sheeld were also highlighted. Microsoft Azure was anticipated, but did not make it. Learned about ARM mbed cloud IDE (Thank you Arrow) and natural full co-processing on the UDOO (Atmel or ARM). AutoDesk presentation sparked 3D ideas. Many thanks to Alex Glow, Monica Houston, and Adam Benzion from Hackster.

ThingWorx LiveWorx PTC - IoT Hackathon, Conference and Bootcamp.

Has been a busy IoT week. Participated in the ThingWorx LiveWorx Hackathon last weekend. Our team (Drip IR) went with the Smart Agriculture track - Freight Farm Modbus interface and FLIR camera via Intel Edison to ThingWorx Mashup. Many thanks to the Thingworx hackathon logistics team - Kevin, Sara and everyone.

Liveworx was great. Appreciated the focus on analytics and end business value. Ideas about digital avatars were great for PLM/SLM. The overall vibe of innovation was irresistible.

Great talks by Heppelmann, Fadel and others.

Great reminiscence talk by Steve Wozniak, and then judging of hackathon. Congratulations to winners: Third - Awesome, Second - Rocket Farms, and First for Accessibility - Smart Signs.

LiveWorx Expo hall had many great companies joining the IoT movement.

Only regrets were things I did not have time for - like the IoT Bootcamp. Trying to absorb the Thingworx IoT ethos and technicals as much as possible.