Internet of Things - A Retro-gaming Perspective (video)

[Michael_Tarallo]

Hey guys - I recently was inspired at Qonnections 2018 by our Big Data Qlik IoT Race game, so much so that I had to understand how it all worked and wanted to play with the underlying technology. Aside from gathering the statistics and providing an analysis on the results, I was really interested in learning about those little devices or "things" that were connected to the track. However, how would I use something like that? Not really knowing anything about Arduino, WEMOS and IoT in general, I set out on a mission to learn about this fascinating technology while incorporating somethings I enjoy such as Qlik and retro-gaming. Take a look how I made IoT interesting and fun to learn, by incorporating a Retrogaming spin and of course added some Qlik Sense data analysis.

Atari Action Analysis Dashboard

Thanks guys, hope you enjoyed it. Let me know what you think by leaving your questions and comments. I'll do my best to respond.

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Regards,

Michael Tarallo (@mtarallo) | Twitter

read_write_SD_controller_SD_FAT_new.zip

[Todd_Margolis]

Well played Mike. Well played...

[Michael_Tarallo]

Thanks Todd, with all sincerity that means a lot, thank you.

Ha, "played" - literally in this sense, right?!

[Todd_Margolis]

Literally and figuratively!

[prasad_dumbre]

That's really cool mike 🙂

[eliran]

Super cool and interesting, thanks for sharing Mike.

[advait_thakur]

Mike tmg‌ Internet of Things - A Retro-gaming Perspective (video)‌ this is interesting, could you please get in touch with me.

Thanks

Advait

[advait_thakur]

Could you show the script part ? can we connect raspberry instead of adriuno ? and what protocols are those MQTT ? and how often the data transfer ?

Thanks

Advait

[Michael_Tarallo]

Hi Advait - sorry for the delay:

• I will attach the Arduino sketch script in this post above.
• Using Raspberry Pi as a microcontroller - you may find this post interesting:
  https://opensource.com/life/16/3/how-configure-raspberry-pi-microcontroller
• Not sure what you mean about protocols - Arduino is reading the voltage from the Analog inputs
• In this case - I am transferring (writing data to SD) in milliseconds.

Note that I am using a few different libraries that I have setup in Arduino.

HTH

[samibaceri]

That's quite interesting! I used to be a huge fan of retro-gaming as well, but then I decided to switch to other games like cs go because they turned out to be more entertaining for me. Also, recently I discovered that it was possible to make money by selling cs go skins like mp5 skins, and now it's a great source of additional income for me, so I don't regret switching to cs go.