Maker Faire 2016 – IoT Expert https://iotexpert.com Engineering for the Internet of Things Wed, 28 Dec 2016 18:36:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://iotexpert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-Avatar-32x32.jpg Maker Faire 2016 – IoT Expert https://iotexpert.com 32 32 A Day off in Rome https://iotexpert.com/a-day-off-in-rome/ https://iotexpert.com/a-day-off-in-rome/#respond Tue, 18 Oct 2016 07:19:44 +0000 https://iotexpert.com/?p=2128 Well this post doesn’t really have anything to do with IOT–actually anything to do with IOT.  But when in Rome…

It was a really beautiful day walking around in Rome after Maker Faire.  It was blue sky’s and about 70… but I am not sure what temperature that is in goofy units 🙂

Here are a few pictures that I took while wandering around here.

I had the taxi drop me at the Colossseum

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Then I walked down the street along the Roman Forum.

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In this video you can hear the amazing street band playing Jazz

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Next I went around the corner where the church of Santa Luca e Martina

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Then into the Capitoline Museum.  Here is a bad-ass bust of Medusa by Bernini who did a bunch of amazing statues including the Four Rivers Fountain that I posted about earlier.

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And the Emperor Commodus as Hercules (apparently the guy was a real asshole)

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And unfortunately I don’t remember the name of this sculpture but it is amazing… look at the thighs on that dude. (Edit: I figured it out.  It is a composite of an old fragment of a discus thrower and a 17xx addition by Pierre Etienne Monnot who also sculpted another amazing statue called Andromeda and the Sea Monster.

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Another bad-ass who’s name I have forgotten from the Palaza Nuovo.  This is looking down the stairs on him… and those giant calves that look like they are carved out of marble. (Edit:  It is “The Colossal Status of Mars – sometimes misidentified as Pyrrhus” which for some reason they list as 360cm which is about 12 feet)

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Then onto Trevi Fountain

Trevi Fountain ]]> https://iotexpert.com/a-day-off-in-rome/feed/ 0 Maker Faire Insanity https://iotexpert.com/maker-faire-insanity/ https://iotexpert.com/maker-faire-insanity/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2016 08:16:20 +0000 https://iotexpert.com/?p=2113 I have spent the last weeks traveling like crazy and working to much…  The cool thing is that my travels have taken me to Maker Faire NYC and Maker Faire Rome.  I will be back onto the Pinball machine shortly… and I will have a new series going soon with WICED WiFi.

Here are some pictures:

With Massimo Banzi in Rome:

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And Grant Imahara in the Mouser + Cypress booth in Rome:

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In New York, Nicholas and I taught people how to use PSoC.

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Here is one of the classes in NYC.

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People playing the Fruita Piano in Rome.

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At the Piazza Novona in front of Fontana di Quattro Fiumi… this place is truly remarkable.

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Jim and I at the booth in Rome.

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I am at the Maker Faire this weekend teaching people how to  program the PSoC.  We have a bunch of computer runnings PSoC Creator and I am giving out development kits.

Come to the Cypress booth and signup and I will teach you!

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