Speaker - Darryl Bond

Darryl is a retired IT manager for a large industrial site with a background in electrical engineering and control systems. Darryl is a long time linux enthusiast whose first linux installation was Yggdrasil, then SLS, Slackware then Red Hat and attendee of many Linux.conf.au. Darryl developed usbrelay to automate his watering system. The project is now packaged in Debian ,Fedora and others. Retirement meant being able to do the things he wanted to do which inevitably was fiddling with home automation. Hacking on microcontrollers is cheap and fun and with the advent of the ESP8266 and ESP32 platforms, Internet of things became mainstream.