Let's Fix Things

This week, Guus and Joe talk about building connected tables, and why connected furniture as we’re seeing it might not be the best idea. Also an involved discussion about why building prototypes is so important to find out how products connect to user behavior. Joe starts at the top ranting further about Siri and WWDC. The discussion looks at Apples drive to incorporate Siri into current devices, which offers limitations while at home. Guus and Joe briefly look at Amazon and Google offering their solutions to connected home automation and better natural language processing – and why those may be stronger in-home devices. Guus talks about building a connected table with particle.io photon micro-controller and an accelerometer. These components allow the table to record tapping or knocking and control devices around it – including playing mysic and turning on the lights. Guus talks about signal filtering, why it’s useful, hooking up the table to our resident bot (aio) to handle natural language commands, and wh