We’ve discussed how this project is going to progress and I’m confident in the outcome. I’ll be creating a hardware emulator using react and nodejs. The interaction layer will interact with it through the same interface that I had planned for the original hardware. I don’t have that interface planned, but I’d like to start experimenting with different ideas, of which I don’t have right now.
This is a diagram of the original vs new hardware layer. It summarizes the changes to the hardware layer better than I can explain it.
We’re still discussing what will happen with the interaction layer, and how we’ll virtualize that. I think we should use Qemu to emulate the RPi hardware and run that in AWS, but that might be overcomplicated, since we are likely doing all of this using a higher level language. I would be okay with using a few aws instances and treating each instance as a device, but I like the idea of Qemu and I think Niko can do it.
Richard’s part doesn’t really change at all, which is good because he’s got a pretty good web app going already.
By next week I want to think a little bit more about how this interface is going to work.
