Hacking drones with Go

Ron Evans joined the show and talked with us about GoCV, Gobot, using Go to control drones, and other interesting projects and news.

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Featuring:

• Ron Evans – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
• Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• Gobot
• Periph
• GoCV
• emgo
• Go Time #37 - Gobot, Hardware, and Gatekeeping with Ron Evans
• The Changelog #177 - Cylon.js, Gobot, Artoo, and IoT
• emgo

Interesting Go Projects and News

• The NEW Improved Go Branding 😍😍
• qor
• run - Really nice alternative to the new errgroup package - small api, easy to use and understand
• Anko - Scriptable interpreter that is embeddable by Yasuhiro Matsumoto (mattn)
• Francesc Campoy - The Robustness of Go (Slides)

GopherCon speaker selections have started, first round of announcements coming SOON!

• GopherconBR opened their CFP this week

Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

• Erik - Jeff Hodges
• Brian - Yasuhiro Matsumoto
• Ron - Steve Francia between Hugo and Cobra… I mean wow.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!