Hacking the Internet of Things

with iOS, Ruby, Arduino and Bluetooth LE

Knoxville CocoaHeads

whoami

Mike Hagedorn

• @mwhagedorn

• github.com/mwhagedorn

Internet of Things

• Physical Computing

Things That Talk

@MarsCuriosity

IOT Deviceshttps://www.raspberrypi.org/

http://supermechanical.com/twine/

http://we-io.net

Arduino

• Physical Computer Platform on a chip

microcontroller vs microprocessor

Arduino IDE

Processing

C

Ruby Motion

LightBlue Bean

• https://punchthrough.com/bean/

• The LightBlue Bean is a low energy Bluetooth Arduino microcontroller

• iOS, OSX, Win8, Android

LightBlue Bean Features• Accelerometer

• Temperature Sensor

• RGB LED

• I/O

• Proto Board

• Wireless Programming

LightBlue Bean Workflow• Arduino Workflow

• Processing -> USB Serial -> Arduino

• LBB Workflow

• Processing -> “sandbox” -> Wireless Serial -> LBB

LightBlue Bean Workflow

Bean Loader For iOS

Use Case

++

= CHAOS

Teleworking

BusyBee

“Daddy is On The Phone”

https://github.com/mwhagedorn/busybee

Architecture

Demo

Resources

• iOS Sensor Apps With Arduino

• Light Blue Bean

• iPhone & iPad Electronic Projects

• Building Wireless Sensor Networks With Arduino