Adventures in reinventing interfaces

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Demo shows that Web USB, Web Bluetooth and Web Serial are just vehicles for bytes not magic: ESC/P printer commands are used to print Game Boy–style selfies from a browser and the USB demo prints reliably while Bluetooth stalls on chunked transfers. A precompiled Arduino hex uploads over Web Serial in Chrome Canary and starts a blinking LED. Chrome’s Bluetooth Internals and USB-internals are used to inspect services, endpoints and raw bytes. The talk warns about 900 MHz IoT consolidation (Amazon Sidewalk) and advocates reclaiming device ownership.

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1. 0:00Introduction to web hardware
2. 2:24Designing a custom protocol
3. 6:21Implementing ESC/P commands
4. 11:21The history of thermal printing
5. 13:55Web APIs for hardware control
6. 20:15Demo: Progressive Web Boy
7. 23:31Debugging hardware in Chrome
8. 27:22Flashing Arduino via web serial
9. 30:35Advantages of web hardware
10. 33:51Ownership and future of IoT
11. 41:08Conclusion and resources

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