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Lessons Learnt from Building Bubblino (a Thing on the Internet)

by Adrian McEwen on Feb 08, 2011

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The talk I prepared for the recent TSB Kickstarting the Internet of Things event, although in the end I didn't get to present it....

The talk I prepared for the recent TSB Kickstarting the Internet of Things event, although in the end I didn't get to present it.

Looking at some of the challenges and things I've learnt in building an Internet of Things product.

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Lessons Learnt From Building Bubblino (a Thing on the Internet) Adrian McEwen - www.mcqn.com

Who Am I? Putting the Internet into things since 1995 1995: Cash registers 1996: Joins STNC, embedded Internet startup 1997: PDAs – Psion Series 5 1998: Built first web browser on a mobile phone 1999: STNC acquired by Microsoft Adrian McEwen - www.mcqn.com

Who Am I? 2002: Left Microsoft, founded own company 2006: Set-top boxes 2008: Arduino MCQN Ltd. builds Internet of Things products for ourselves and for others. Adrian McEwen - www.mcqn.com Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/heungsub/4876380962/

Bubblino Adrian McEwen - www.mcqn.com Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuttyxander/3206466676/

Challenges

Prototyping

Design to be unobtrusive

Making it consumer-friendly

Scaling up production

Explaining the Internet of Things

Adrian McEwen - www.mcqn.com

Prototyping

Not as tricky or expensive as it sounds

Hardware is pretty cheap these days

Build it yourself, or

Get someone to build it for you

Digital fabrication tools getting cheaper and more widespread

Adrian McEwen - www.mcqn.com Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucamascaro/2936920531/

Design for the Background

The tyranny of the power LED

Design for humans, not factories

Degrade gracefully

Magic as metaphor

Adrian McEwen - www.mcqn.com Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattymatt/3104387906/

Making it Consumer-friendly

Needs to work seamlessly

How do you configure a device that doesn't have a screen or a keyboard?

Getting connectivity: wired vs. wireless

Adrian McEwen - www.mcqn.com Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/heungsub/4876380962/

Scaling Up?

Lots of lovely prototypes/one-offs, but lots of people stall at this step.

A gulf between artwork and product

Outsource whole problem

Do it yourself

Adrian McEwen - www.mcqn.com Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ste3ve/521083310/

Explaining the Internet of Things

Lots of competing terms

Don't worry about the tech, focus on uses/benefits

Promotion from IBM, Cisco, et al a double-edged sword