Major tech companies like Sonos, Apple, and John Deere create electronic waste by locking down devices and limiting repairability.
Engineers must take responsibility for product lifecycles, while consumer and legal actions can force companies to adopt right-to-repair policies.
Open source hardware, championed by companies like Adafruit and SparkFun, provides accessible circuit designs and PCBs to enable repair and modification.
The W3C Web of Things (WoT) standard aims to solve device fragmentation by enabling different IoT devices to communicate with each other.
The core of WoT is the Thing Description, a JSON file that describes a device's capabilities, metadata, and API endpoints for interaction.
A live demo shows how to interact with an ESP32 OLED display using its Thing Description and a simple Node.js application.
The speaker shares his career path from early hardware tinkering to web development with PHP and JavaScript, and back to embedded systems with Riot OS.
To promote sustainability, frame it as a marketing advantage, a cost-saving measure, and a necessary mindset shift to attract future talent.
Anecdotes from past projects reveal the risks of outdated practices in large companies, such as using local Excel files for financial trades.
The speaker details his hardware experience, from building PCs and using Arduino to contributing to open source IoT projects like Riot OS.
The next five years in tech will be shaped by the convergence of AI for efficiency, IoT for interoperability, and DeFi for accessible financing.
Blockchain's future depends on moving away from energy-intensive proof-of-work models toward more sustainable alternatives like proof-of-stake.
The speaker's current project involves creating a playful hardware development kit to make learning and building with Web of Things more accessible.
Sensory-Minds GmbH
Offenbach am Main, Germany
ROSEN Technology and Research Center GmbH
Lingen (Ems), Germany
33:01Julien Lengrand-Lambert
1:05:49Lorenzo Pieri
1:02:22Marjolein Pordon
1:01:43Samuel Shaw
55:18Ricardo Sueiras Sueiras
59:17Richard Bieck
25:29Pawel Skiba
1:11:23DeveloperSteve
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Instaffo GmbH
Menden (Sauerland), Germany
Siemens AG
München, Germany
Lipsia Digital Gmbh
Leipzig, Germany
