{"id":541,"date":"2015-08-29T20:52:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T04:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacksontech.net\/?p=541"},"modified":"2015-08-29T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T04:54:33","slug":"idf2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/idf2015\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I went to the Intel Developer Forum this year. It was just as fun as <a href=\"http:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/2014\/10\/intel-developer-forum-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>, although this time I went with a few friends and we ducked out to explore San Francisco a little.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I got <a href=\"http:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/2015\/06\/galileo-board-temperature-sensor\/\" target=\"_blank\">another<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/2015\/07\/galileo-temperature-sensor-code-now-on-github\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intel Galileo board<\/a>. (Yes, I&#8217;m aware the sensor page may be down. My server probably went offline at the campus.)<\/li>\n<li>We learned a little bit about I2C and got to play with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/do-it-yourself\/edison.html\" target=\"_blank\">Intel Edison platform<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I won an Asus ZenPad C 7 Android tablet. (Naturally, it uses Intel tech.) This is particularly cool to me; it&#8217;s my second modern Android tablet. (The first one I still need to blog about. Coming soon!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a major focus on the Intel RealSense technology this year. One notable example was an &#8220;infinite run&#8221; style video game on a cell phone connected to a large television. The cameras on the cell phone detected the player&#8217;s position in front of the television and used that data to control the player&#8217;s character. Dodging left\/right made your character dodge left\/right on screen. It was impressive, especially considering that it was running on a cell phone, although the lag was noticeable. (The Intel employee had to change out cell phones because the first one was getting too hot!)<\/p>\n<p>There were also robots. Terrifying robots. Terrifying six-legged four-foot-tall arachnid robots, plus a small army of its brethren doing a synchronized dance. It was creepy, but in an awesome way. Then there was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savioke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Savioke Relay<\/a>. If this is what the robot uprising looks like, I have bad news: we&#8217;re all doomed, because its cuteness is disarming. They gave it eyes. They gave it happy little digital <em>eyes <\/em>that somehow manage to convey more expression than certain people I know.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry though, it has one weakness: carpet. Whoever did the interior decoration this year at Moscone put in some absurdly thick carpeting in places, and it was giving <em>humans<\/em> trouble. Now imagine a little top-heavy robot scooting around on wheels. Poor Savioke tried crossing from linoleum to carpet at full speed. Fortunately, he didn&#8217;t tip, and his sensors made him stop and proceed at a slower clip.<\/p>\n<p>If Savioke is the next Skynet, I for one welcome our future robot overlords.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I went to the Intel Developer Forum this year. It was just as fun as last year, although this time I went with a few friends and we ducked out to explore San Francisco a little. Highlights: I got another Intel Galileo board. (Yes, I&#8217;m aware the sensor page may be down. My server &#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/idf2015\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[67,68,69,57,70],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-intel","tag-intel-developer-forum","tag-intel-edison","tag-intel-galileo","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksontech.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}