Are you working with the MozOpenHardware group

[Martyn Eggleton]

Hi,

I was at MozFest working in the Youth Zone and somehow totally missed your launch. I shall be downloading and contributing as much as I can.

I basic question is did you meet the Mozilla Japan guys from the MozOpenHardware project ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/305208196333685/?fref=ts ). They are working of an FxOS powered hardware device for IoT / Wot applications. They are currently hacking on the RPi as a reasonable place to start.

I hope you are in touch, as the session they ran turned into a pretty good brainstorm around different use-cases / models and technologies for the space your are working in (the talk was less hardware focused than their project) and their notes could be helpful. If not I will hook you up once they distribute the notes.

We had members of the public UI designers educators and hardware hackers in the group so it was a good mix.

I suspect that the RPi effort is likely to be the one of THE projects that defines the WebAPI that the "Web of Things" is built on and that will massively effect the MozOpenHardware hardware devices that emerge next year. Whilst I appreciate that hobbyist hardware hackers and makers will be your first market, can I assure you that educators and hardware manufactures will be follwoing on behind if you get this right.

Just to introduce myself, I'm Martyn from EduMake ( http://edumake.org/ ) we do Digital Making education ( I also work in a school full time) and do work around visual programming languages for physical computing. We are currently rebuilding our technology and workshops on top Blockly after being leading Waterbear users / devs for a while.

So we will be working quite quickly on trying to get kids to code this thing :) but first to install it :), And is there any documentation for the Javascript API for GPIO yet?

[Chris Jones]

Hi Martyn,

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Martyn Eggleton <martyn....@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just to introduce myself, I'm Martyn from EduMake ( http://edumake.org/ )
> we do Digital Making education ( I also work in a school full time) and do
> work around visual programming languages for physical computing. We are
> currently rebuilding our technology and workshops on top Blockly after
> being leading Waterbear users / devs for a while.
>
>

​Nice to meet you :).​

> So we will be working quite quickly on trying to get kids to code this
> thing :) but first to install it :), And is there any documentation for the
> Javascript API for GPIO yet?
>

​​Currently there isn't an "official" API for GPIO from JS. However, we're
carrying on that discussion here

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.webapi/gpio/mozilla.dev.webapi/4BC0pBzEC7E/LRAj6i6r_2kJ

please join in! :) Also, if you're comfortable with using a somewhat
out-of-date demo build, there's a JS GPIO API available in

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Foxberry_Pi_Demo

Cheers,
Chris

[Martyn Eggleton]

Cool I'm looking at that discussion next.
I've attached the notes from our session with MozOpenHardware (as they
arrived today) it's just a pdf of scribblings but they are the thoughts of
the 10 individuals in the group. I think there are a few useful things in
there. which I will try to distill in to the api discussion.

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Regards,
Martyn
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[Martyn Eggleton]

Oops, document too large.
Here's a link to it on FB

https://www.facebook.com/download/1560203070882886/OHW_MozillaFestival.pdf
you may need to visit / join the group to get it https://www.facebook.com/groups/305208196333685/