Wednesday
Room 5
16:20 - 17:20
Session (60 min)
Flying a drone with twitter, bananas & Web APIs
The web is fast becoming the main means through which people interact with all sorts of technologies. With every new invention, users ask "but can it work with a browser?" With Web APIs, the answer is almost always yes; even to the question "can you fly a drone with a banana?"
In this talk, I show the audience the power of these APIs and discuss a few cool experimental APIs. I do this by taking them on a journey through my experience of trying to hack a drone and fly it with a banana and then hand gestures (picture iron man).
If you're interested in all things web, custom controllers, Bluetooth technology and accelerometer-based controls or if you like fruit and seeing silly applications of technology, this talk is for you.
Nhlanhla Lucky Nkosi
Lucky is an Executive and the Head of Specialised Consulting, Research and Development at BBD - a global bespoke software solutions firm. As a software engineer, he has experience in building and maintaining enterprise software in the banking, insurance, telecommunications and education sectors with varying tech-stacks; from VB6 and .Net to web and cloud technologies. Lucky is an educator, teaching Game Design and Computer Science at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and is the co-organiser of the Johannesburg-based JavaScript-focused meetup: Jozi.JS.