A Digit Expo In My Home City

I am so lucky to live and work in a great city. I made Edinburgh my home many years ago, and I have never regretted living and working here for one microsecond. And so I can pop onto a bus, and within 10 minutes I’m at a venue with thousands of tech people, and who have great ideas and who want to build new things. I adore my city, because it has education and knowledge exchange at its heart; it is achingly beautiful and cultured; and it welcomes the world.

And so this week, I think I attended one of the most inspiring and best organised conference events I have ever attended: Digit Expo. So rather than getting on planes and staying in generic hotel rooms, it was the 44 bus from my home, and a 10 minute bus trip into my home city. And on the bus, I took my Raspberry PI (RPI), my Ubertooths (Bluetooth scanners), my Polar H10 heart rate monitor, and so many other things:

For many other events, I just could take all these things with me, but I was presenting in my home city so it gave me a chance to actually show real risks.

For some events, you tell the organisor that you are using Keynote and HDMI, and going to give a live demo, and the reply is: “Oh dear, I will have to see…