Go on hardware: TinyGo in the wild

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

In this episode, we will be exploring the tiny world of Go and Hardware. We are joined by three gophers, Vladimir Vivien, Tobias Theel, and Ron Evans, who will be discussing the use of Linux API (V4L2) to control video hardware and capture image data in realtime, programming Bluetooth devices, working on WiFi communication using an Arduino Nano 33 IoT NINA chip, and much more.

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Featuring:

• Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Vladimir Vivien – GitHub, X
• Tobias Theel – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• TinyGo’s website
• Video for Linux API
• cgo Go Package
• GDN Event: Tiny Go Technology and Hardware
• Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol RFC
• Astro Playground
• Suborbital Website
• WebAssembly for Proxies (ABI specification)
• WebAssembly for Proxies (Go SDK)
• Vecty (Front-end of Go Gitbhub)
• WASM-4 Website
• xship (A shoot’em up built with tinygo for the pygamer)
• Learning Go by Example: Create a Game Boy Advance (GBA) game in Go
• Learning Go Programming by Vladimir Vivien
• Creative DIY Microcontroller Projects with TinyGo and WebAssembly: A practical guide to building embedded applications for low-powered devices, IoT, and home automation by Tobias Theel
• The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y” by Erik Bernhardsson

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