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.

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