Using the internet as the communication medium for computing devices is nothing new. The internet itself was invented for this purpose. Nowadays the number and variety of devices using the internet for communication are increasing dramatically every day. With that, the technology became more and more accessible up to the point where the hardware required to build quite an advanced `internet thing` costs no more than an ice cream. The interesting part comes with the software required to make this hardware work and that is what this session topic is about. We’ll see how we can actually use low-cost hardware to build our own `internet things`.