Leveraging AndroidThings and Arduino to build Smart Homes and Self-driving Cars.

With all the excitement surrounding programming, more often than not, it seems like all of its solutions are software and not tangible.

Introducing, AndroidThings and Arduino micro-controllers!👏

With AndroidThings and Arduino Micro-Controllers, developers(or non-developers) can easily write code for hardware and see the code in physical action! Exciting, right?! The excitement of being able to achieve this led us to organize a meetup on these two amazing hardware. The aim of the meetup was to show the possibilities of building with IoT devices and considering their applications in day-to-day life activities. We focused on two separate devices; the AndroidThings Starter kit, which can be used to build Temperature and Pressure sensors for smart homes and an Arduino board that we used to build a 4-wheel robotic car.

The meetup was kick-started by Mercy talking about smart homes. She began by giving her background in Architecture and how her flare for robotics lead her to design a Smart Children’s Centre building as her final undergraduate project. Highlighting current issues happening in Nigeria regarding building collapse, Mercy admonished that having smart homes has not only become a luxury but a necessity.

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