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Workshop Intermediate First Talk

Building a Mars Rover with Mecha

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Session Description

Join us for an exciting, hands-on workshop where you'll learn to deploy and communicate with a Mars Rover from the base station! This workshop is perfect for students and engineers eager to dive into basics of hardware development and some robotics. You'll get practical experience working with IO. Send navigational commands to your rover and receive real-time metrics. We'll also guide you in deploying an API to the Cloud for seamless communication with your rover. As a bonus, you'll create a Telegram bot to interact with your rover.


Topics covered -

  1. Basics of communicating to hardware via IO
  2. Cloud connectivity and provisioning
  3. IoT Networking and communication
  4. Collecting Metrics and publishing via OpenTelemetry


The workshop will involve using the Mecha (https://mecha.so) hardware and cloud platform.

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Speakers

Shoaib Merchant
Founder Mecha Systems
Shoaib Merchant

Software engineer with experience spanning over a decade in software, hardware and cloud. His diverse expertise in building software pans industries such as Retail, E-Commerce, Business Intelligence, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing. Shoaib has successfully designed, built, and deployed systems that are now in use by major enterprises around the world. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science & engineering from VIT (2014).

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