DIY Mars Probe: AWS Greengrass IoT v2 with a Raspberry Pi (Part 1)

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In this two-part series, you’ll learn how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a flexible and powerful Internet-of-Things device with AWS Greengrass v2, ultimately creating an off-grid remote-tasked data and image collection device.

Great News! Your scrappy little space start-up just won a very competitive contract to populate Mars with hundreds of sensors to collect environmental and visual data! Bad News! It will take almost all the project budget to get the collection devices to the surface of Mars in the first place. You’re the lucky engineer tasked with building the sensors on the cheap! Harnesses the Portable Power of the Pi with AWS to create a remote sensor and camera.

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Scott Pletcher

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Scott Pletcher has over 29 years experience in the IT field, most of which has been in technology leadership positions within large global organizations. Working across a variety of industries, he has served as Enterprise Architect, SAP Technical Director, Software Development Manager, Agile Coach and Innovation Program Manager.

Scott maintains several cloud certifications in Architecture and Machine Learning as well as a PMP and PMI-ACP from the Project Management Institute. Scott earned his undergraduate degree in MIS from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and holds an MBA from The Citadel.
In addition to being a full time training architect for A Cloud Guru, Scott is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Technology from Purdue University.

If Scott ever makes it on Jeopardy, his dream categories are "Craft Beers of the US", "80's Heavy Metal Bands", "Kevin Smith Movies", "Linux Hackery" and "The Simpsons".

DIY Mars Probe: AWS Greengrass IoT v2 with a Raspberry Pi (Part 1)

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