Saturday, January 26, was held in Naples the first Microsoft
Embedded Conference. The event was organized by the cultural
association DotNetCampania
and by TinyCLR developer
community. Although it was Saturday, the number of visitors was
more than 50 people came not only from Campania, but also from
other regions.
The organization
was perfect both from the environmental point of view: space, time
and facilities, both from the technical: tools for audio / video
recording, support the speaker, etc. ...
The agenda included:
9:30 - 9:40 Keynote: Michele
Aponte - Paolo
Patierno
9:40 - 10:20 Intelligent Systems: Beppe
Platania
10:20 - 11:00 Windows Embedded Compact 7: Beppe
Platania
10:30 - 12:10 Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and 7: Beppe Platania
12:10 - 13:00 What does it means "Embedded"? :
Valter Minute
14:00 - 14:30 Put .Net Framework in the micro
board: Paolo
Patierno
14:30 - 15:30 Are you a Gadgerteer? : Mirco Vanini
15:30 - 16:30 Internet-of-Things : a world of connected devices:
Lorenzo Maiorfi
17:00 - 18:00 Natural User Interface with Kinect for Windows:
Clemente Giorio e Paolo
Patierno
In the keynote Michele
Aponte (MVP- Microsoft and DotNetCampania President)
presented the community, and Paolo
Patierno (main organizer and member of the community TinyCLR) presented the
agenda of the day.
In the Intelligent Systems session I presented the full range of
Microsoft Windows Embedded offer starting from Windows Embedded
Compact 7 up to Windows Embedded Server with a hint of. NET
MicroFramework.
Then, in the second session, I presented a discussion of Windows
Embedded Compact 7 from the history of Microsoft product, the
internal structure adding to it all with a demonstration of the
tool to build and deploy the system.
In the third session I presented platforms Windows Embedded
Standard 2009 and 7 dwelling on the characteristics of the two
embedded solutions and the development tools concluding with a
practical demonstration of image building.
In the following session
Valter Minutegave an overview on the concept of embedded
system, by touching with hand some products "made in Italy"
After lunch, Paolo
Patierno made a general overview on .Net Micro Framework, which
paved the way for theoretical future sessions on the same
topic.
The Mirco Vanini
session on .NET Gadgeteer has generated considerable interest in
the attendees, thanks to the strong theoretical as well as
practical contents. At the end of the sessions, the founder of the
TinyCLR.it community: Lorenzo
Maiorfi and Gianluca Ruta, spoke of the "Internet of Things" by
involving the people in the room in the drive, with their
smart-phones, lights going on and buzzer who played under the
control (via web) of a actuators and sensors rich platform set up
for the demo.
Finally
Clemente Giorio and Paolo
Patierno presented, first in theory and then in practice, a
solution based on Kinect, for final demo, with a robot as
protagonist, set in motion thanks to the gesture and voice
commands.
It was a busy day, but it has been managed to get the active
involvement and interest of the participants. We received the best
reward at the end of the day, by the many compliments obtained by
participants: the true heart of a community!
Thanks again to the commitment of the organizers: DotNetCampania and TinyCLR.it that allowed the
success of this event that I hope to repeat soon or be able to
organize a similar one in Turin with the TTG
community to which I belong.
