What do the Apple Watch, Nest thermostat, Amazon Echo, and the Pebble smartwatch have in common? They’re all “things” in the Internet of Things, a worldwide network of soon-to-be- 40 Billion devices communicating with each other, the cloud and our phones.
This course will lead you through the design, development and prototyping of a representative “Thing” and show you how to prepare to launch a crowd funding campaign to finance production.
Starting with an exploration of what is the Internet of Things and what exactly a “Thing” is, students will learn the steps from idea to prototype including: