Todays trip to the IoT expo 2017 was disappointing.

So I turn up – hop in a lift upto the 2nd floor – the lift has a CAN bus error, still working tho :s. Then I proceed to get my badge, the printer has a jam, and the next kiosk just refuses my barcode…. off to see a real person it is then. so far the things are letting down the team.

So I have a little wonder round, most cubicles are bland and blank, a few were empty, but had signs up for exhibitors who I guess just show up. I was looking for something new, different or simply cleaver, but I don’t really think I saw anything. I was really surprised not to see Arduino there, or the Raspberry PI Foundation, or AWS…. but Ubuntu was which is ok I guess. Anyway it really did feel fragmented and nothing really flowed.

Here’s the things I found interesting enough to snap.