Hacking the quarantine with Grafana & Electronics
Talk (60 min)
But then I had a "Eureka!"-moment. I decided to transform the Wix-branded Mini Arcade machine that was collecting dust on my desk into a Grafana monitor. Only one problem though, I knew nothing about electronics, soldering, or tinkering with hardware in general. But I didn't let that stop me!
In this talk I'll showcase this wacky project and explain how lowly software engineers can become mighty hardware hackers. I cover how to reverse-engineer how existing devices work, how to give them "Raspberry-pi brains", how to create low-level display-drivers to higher-level languages, and how to learn to solder to put everything together.
Yonatan Mevorach
Yonatan is a Team Lead at the Frontend Infrastructure group at Wix.com, where he is able to make his love for creating developer tools a part of his daily work. He also enjoys working on open-source developer tools, and blogs about them at blog.yonatan.dev.