Andrew Chalkley is a full-time teacher at online education provider Treehouse. He’s a polyglot programmer with a passion for hardware. Andrew’s posts on the hardware platform Arduino have been featured in Hacker Monthly and used in higher educational institutions around the world. He’s also lectured at University on JavaScript and the Internet of Things.
The ESP8266 is a very popular Internet of Things device, because of it’s price and availability. You can program it with Arduino, Python and even JavaScript. Using JavaScript on a small device doesn’t have to be difficult. Andrew will show you the easiest way to install JavaScript on am Internet of Things device and how to run your JavaScript applications on it.
- Blog: http://forefront.io
- Company: http://teamtreehouse.com
- Github: http://github.com/chalkers
- Flasher.js: http://github.com/thingssdk/flasher.js
