TEQnation 2021 – Todd Sharp – My Journey to Create Hot Sauce Using IoT, Messaging & Micronaut

It all started with a small project to pass the time during The Great Quarantine of 2020. I bought some chiles from the local farmer’s market (with proper face coverings and social distancing, of course), fermented my first batch of hot sauce, and shared it with a few friends around the globe. I had no idea the sauce would be such a massive success, so I resolved to build on that triumph in 2021. But this time, I knew that I would have to start from the very beginning and grow the chiles myself. Of course, this presented the wonderful opportunity to combine two of my life’s greatest passions – the culinary arts and technology – to ensure that my growth operation was the ultimate success. Join me in this session where I show you how I used a microcontroller, some sensors and the cloud to monitor and automate the germination and maturation of this year’s crop.