2017 DevFestMN Tim Salo

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Hands-on Bluetooth Low Energy beacon workshop that demos concrete results not theory: shows a Del Mar tide-alert built with Eddystone URL beacons, uses Chrome (iOS widget) and NRF Connect to inspect raw frames, explains the POST to Google’s Physical Web service and JSON response, exposes 950 ms vs Apple low‑power scanning quirks, shows telemetry (battery volts, temp, uptime) and notes demos are flaky but mostly runnable.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:07Bluetooth beacon use case
3. 3:14Hands-on with beacons
4. 14:28Viewing beacons on devices
5. 22:30How BLE beacons work
6. 26:07BLE hardware basics
7. 34:22BLE packet structure
8. 45:18Hands-on with raw beacon data
9. 1:01:09Physical Web model
10. 1:15:52Nearby model
11. 1:23:48Beacon technology maturity
12. 1:27:44Q&A

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