The Internet of Things with Jen Tong

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Episode | Podcast

Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 01:07:49 +0000

<p>In the eleventh episode of this podcast, your hosts <a href="http://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/neurotic">Mark</a> interview <a href="https://twitter.com/MimmingCodes">Jen Tong</a>, a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform, about the Internet of Things.</p> <h5 id="about-jen">About Jen</h5> <p>Jenny is a Developer Advocate on Cloud at Google. In this role she helps developers build cool stuff on all sorts of platforms. Previously she worked in a wide variety of software roles from robotics at NASA, to developer advocacy for Google Glass.</p> <p>She is passionate about education, especially on the subjects of technology and science. If she’s away from her laptop, she’s probably skating around a roller derby track, or hanging from aerial silk.</p> <p>You can contact Jen through <a href="https://twitter.com/MimmingCodes">Twitter</a> and her <a href="http://mimming.com/">home page</a>.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730">Deep Learning at Udacity</a> Google Research <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.fr/2016/01/teach-yourself-deep-learning-with.html"> blost post</a>.<br /></li> </ul> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoStarterKit">Arduino starter kit</a></li> <li><a href="http://nodebots.io/">NodeBots</a>: Robots powered by JavaScript</li> <li><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/">Raspberry Pi</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno">Arduino Uno</a></li> <li><a href="https://nodejs.org/en/">Node.JS</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/firmata/arduino">Firmata for Arduino</a></li> <li><a href="http://johnny-five.io/">Johnny Five</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.firebase.com/">Firebase</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13678">ESP8266</a> WiFi Module<br /></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Platform training <a href="https://cloud.google.com/training/">page</a></li> </ul>