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.

Intel IoT Roadshow Boston. Greentown Labs, Somerville.

Very much enjoyed the Boston Intel Iot Roadshow weekend of March 15 at Greentown Labs in Somerville.

That is me in the center. Always enjoy it when my picture features prominently like at MIT OHS2013 *silly-grin*.

Many thanks to Stewart Christie, Daniel Holmlund, Ajay Mungara and the whole Intel ioT Roadshow team.

Intel Edison kits and Seeed Studio Grove accessories were great. Wished could have more effectively used Mashery and could do something with the advanced release Grove Agricultural Sensor kit.

And here are the hackathon results. Great stuff overall. The winning entries truly were fun.

Our team was the "Drips" was supposed to be "Know Drips" and was actually more about larger flows then drips... but hey.

Best Internet of Things IoT Blogs.

Went looking for a list (even if just opinion) of the best blogs for Internet of Things, IoT. Had criteria that it be reasonably outward looking, agnostic and current. Did not exactly find what sought. But some related things...

Best IoT Twitter accounts from Link Labs. Postscapes seems to come up often. Some general trend watchers have some good IoT materials like PSFK. There are some personal opinions, which sometimes lead back to trend watchers and consultants like McKinsey. Big companies, of course, come up on search for best IoT blogs - Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Cisco, Bosch, PTC, and so on. Some smaller entities come out too like Stephenson (local in Massachusetts), Adafruit (prototyping supplier).

IoT Infographics.

Intel Platform Transforming data into insight is the essence of analytics.
Libelium Smart world and the connectedness of all things.
IoT World Landscape and Players in IoT. Matt Turck, First Mark Capital.
Microsoft Azure IoT Platform Slides page 11 most notably - but see also lead-in material.

Trends. Industry and World Watchers.

Was recently directed to PSFK regarding Internet of Things industry trends. Interesting group overall. Great content. Like the PSFK business model. Fortune has nice things to say about PSFK. PSFK labs.

Adding PSFK to group of other "watchers" followed:
IdTechEx, the Gartner, Forrester crowd, the Big Three MBB, as well as various viewpoints from direct industry leaders like Intel, GE, IBM, and so on.