Carson's Story
Android Things presents: Steve the Tree
What do a few Google engineers, a 20 foot tree and a whole lot of sensors have in common? This video will show you. Meet Steve the Tree - a 20x20 foot installment that reacts to sensor input, displays light arrays, is controlled using Firebase, and is powered by Android Things. Learn how a team of Google engineers worked to build Steve the Tree and what they learned along the way as they embarked on the project. You too can learn to build your own project using Android Things! Read more.
"Instead of trying to figure out Bluetooth or some other communication method which you usually have to do on other platforms, we could just plug in Firebase."
-- Carson Holgate
Team Lead, Internal Communications Platforms, Google
Team Lead, Internal Communications Platforms, Google
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