After seven years of working as a java developer, Bodo fall in love with ruby and moved to cologne to work as a full time ruby developer. He started tinkering with hardware as a teenager with his C-64, his dad created the robots and he wrote the software that made them move. Besides coding Bodo loves diving, traveling and biking.

In his talk he will show how to connect an arduino with ruby using eventmachine. He will also show potential use cases and projects that can be created using this technique. Most of the projects can be finished on one weekend.