JavaScript on Hardware with Kelsey Breseman
“Part of the point of Tessel is that it just works – you don’t have to worry about it. Much in the way that you would throw your app up on Heroku.”
Tessel is an open-source microcontroller that is programmable in JavaScript and compatible with Node.js.
Kelsey Breseman is a hardware engineer and Steering Committee Member on the Tessel Project.
Questions
- What is the origin story of Tessel?
- Tessel runs JavaScript – why is this an advantage?
- Is there anything about hardware development that makes it inherently more complex than web development?
- Why is the event-driven paradigm useful on hardware?
- How has the Node community and npm been influential in the development and design of Tessel?
- What are some Tessel modules built by users that have surprised you?
- What would the world look like if hardware were as easy to prototype as software?
