# 21 March 2016 - Internet of Things Workshop at the Digital Catapult Centre

> Went to a superb workshop at the Digital Catapult Centre, near St Pancras Station in London. The organisers were OpenTRV , represented by Mark Hill and Damon Ha

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Broxted](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Broxted/)
- Author: Clive Rixson
- Published: 2016-04-11
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Broxted/post/21-march-2016-internet-of-things-workshop-at-the-digital-catapult-centre

Went to a superb [workshop](https://www.digitalcatapultcentre.org.uk/event/internet-of-things-workshop/) at the Digital Catapult Centre, near St Pancras Station in London. The organisers were [OpenTRV](http://opentrv.org.uk/), represented by Mark Hill and [Damon Hart-Davis](http://d.hd.org/), and [Digital Catapult](https://www.digitalcatapultcentre.org.uk/), represented by Peter Karney. Damon Hart-Davis showed my group how to configure a mote, containing temperature and light sensors, to connect to TTN, using the Arduino IDE. We also configured the [Mosquitto](http://mosquitto.org/) client to listen for events. I had interesting discussions with Laura Trevail of [Iotic Labs](https://iotic-labs.com/) about their projects. I also met [Mike Beardmore](http://greatwebsites.co.uk/mikethebee.com/) of [TTN Reading](http://thethingsnetwork.org/c/Reading) and [TTN Wokingham](http://thethingsnetwork.org/c/Wokingham/), who gave me useful information on gateways and antennae. Andrew Lindsay of [TTN Thatcham](http://thethingsnetwork.org/c/thatcham) and [Thing Innovations](http://thinginnovations.uk/) was also there, leading a workshop. He showed me the flood sensor that he has designed for the [Flood Network](http://flood.network/).