Collaborative LearningThe role communities play in IoT

Justin Grammens

Human Needs• Once Physiological (air,

water, etc) and Safety are covered

• Then come the Love/belonging needs:

• Sense of belonging and community

• Give and receive love

Maslow's Hierarchy

About Me• First User Group I Attended -

Ruby Users of MN - 2006

• Why Was I There?

• Learn from others

• Meet news friends / network

• Power is stronger in numbers

About Me• I wanted to give back

• Groups formed

• 2008: Mobile Twin Cities - Monthly.

• 2009: Mobile March - Full day conference!

Community• If I'm working on building something on my own…

• Are are others doing it as well?

• Then, let’s work together!

&

Wikipedia• Create a free encyclopedia for

everyone

• 80,000 volunteers update the site

• Why?

• Because it’s fun

• They are doing something that will be remembered

Software Collaboration• GitHub

• Shared revision control and source code management

• 9 million users with 21 million repositories

• Open sourced projects hosted for free!

Software Collaboration• Stack Overflow

• Platform for users to ask and answer questions

• Answers are voted up or down

• 4,000,000 registered users

• 11,000,000 questions

• Use it to build their career and show expertise.

How Does This Relate to IoT?

IoT Growth

Software and Hardware are both needed

Open Source Hardware• Arduino

• Low cost

• Low power

• Well supported

• Quickly assemble a prototype (LEAN)

Arduino.MN• Founded in 2012

• Local group of hardware/software professionals

• Open hardware, connected devices (IoT)

• Monthly meetings and hack nights to share projects

Let’s Have A HackDay!

#IoTHackday

What can you build together in 12 hours?

Let’s Have A Conference!

@IoTFuse• Conference to unite

hackers and makers with executives

• Sense of community looking toward the future if IoT

• Like Mobile March - cast the net wide

@iotmpls Growth

Local Stories

Spark (2012)

Powered by Arduino and demoed at Arduino.MN

Spark -> Particle

2 Kickstarters > $1MM Pledged

Hidrate

Conceived at Startup Weekend 6 - Sept 16, 2014

Choosatron

Jerry Demoed @ Arduino.MN in June 2012

ReCap & Mico

Two successful Kickstarters from Igor Ramos

Water Meter Solutions

Colin and Josh Demoed @ Arduino.MN in Nov 2013

Brainwave BiofeedbackA meditation and alert signal headset allowing Middle School students to visualize brain stimulus data from measured out-put metrics of meditation and attention.

Conceived and built at a recent HackTheGap

CoderDojoTC.org• Local free coding club for kids

• Helped nearly 1,000 unique children and young adults learn to code

Epitome of Collaborative Learning

Thank You

• Local meetups & communities play a positive role in collaborative learning

• Open Source and crowdsourcing creates more innovation

• We live in a unique city with collaboration helping to drive the adoption of IoT