Today's CTO Breakfast

• Trent Larson mentioned tool for P2P sharing family histories (familyhistories.info)
• Sano Inteiligence for a subdermal patch for monitoring the blood stream
• True Crypt (vs Best Crypt), with hidden volumes
• BTSync for P2P file distribution
• "Scrypt" coin using GPUs vs Bitcoin (w/ SHA256)
• Vivian at Gild & Provo Dojo last night about underappreciated Utah developers
• SaltStack, which Wade prefers over Puppet
• Intel Galileo, running Arduino but also Linux, $60 with power on Amazon, including Wifi connector
• playing music on a dodecahedron, drawn on a ping-pong ball with an egg-bot, then icosahedron, and then she talked about a theramin
• Espruino, an Arduino-like board using Javascript
• NodeRed from Google for graphical design of a node program
• Google's purchase of Nest
• Scott mentioned using NFC to configure devices, and Kelly Flanagan is doing it
• power requirements & parasitic power