.NET, IoT and Hedgehogs! 🦔

Presentation repo for my .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs! talks

Talk Description:

Using C# / .NET Technologies and IoT to curate and automate video footage of garden hedgehogs.

An experimental journey through device access, cloud storage, serverless functions, and a public website.

With an insight into problem-solving changes necessary to bring the code cross-platform to run on Linux on a Raspberry Pi.

Macclesfield Hedgehogs website
🦔 mikeirvingweb.github.io/macclesfield-hedgehogs

Blogs
📖 .NET, IoT and Hedgehogs!
📖 Hedgehog System Evolution!
📖 Hedgehog Hardware and Detection

Forthcoming Talks

📅 Aug 12th 2026 - Birmingham .Net & MAUI User Group - Meetup

Past Talks

📅 May 14th 2026 - Weblica, Croatia - Website - Slides

📅 Nov 4th 2025 - Chester Devs - Eventbrite - Slides

📅 Sep 29th 2025 - Dot Net Notts - Meetup - Slides

📅 Jul 31st 2025 - Staffs Web Meetup - Meetup - Slides

📅 Oct 31st 2023 - Manchester Tech Festival - Website content now offline - Slides

📅 Aug 15th 2023 - .NET South West - Meetup - Slides

📅 Aug 1st 2023 - dotnetsheff - Meetup - Slides

📅 Jun 29th 2023 - Leeds Sharp - Meetup - Slides

📅 Feb 28th 2023 - Dot NET Liverpool - Meetup - Slides

📅 Feb 2nd 2023 - Macc Tech - Website - Slides

📅 Jan 31st 2023 - Dot Net North - Meetup - Slides

Recorded Versions

🍿 From Nov 4th 2025 @ Chester Devs - YouTube

🍿 From Sep 29th 2025 @ .NET Notts (online) - YouTube

🍿 From Aug 1st 2023 @ dotnetsheff - YouTube

Code Repositories

🦔 Macclesfield Hedgehogs website

🪣 S3 Bucket Experiments

🎥 C# Camera Experiments

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Links from presentation

Microsoft PortQry
💻 PortQry CLI
🖼️ PortQryUI

NuGet Packages
📶 SimpleWifi.netstandard
🔵 InTheHand.BluetoothLE from Peter Foot
📼 Xabe.FFmpeg
🖼️ SixLabors.ImageSharp
🔍 ImageSharpCompare

FFmpeg
📼 FFmpeg project website

AWS Resources
🪣 AWS S3 Examples for .NET
📼 ffmpeg-lambda-layer
🧩 Building Lambda functions with C#
🔬 Amazon Rekognition

.NET Advent Calendar
🎄 2022 Calendar (content now offline)
❄️ Day 5 Entry (content now offline)

Raspberry Pi
🍓 Raspberry Pi Imager
📔 Microsoft Learn - Deploy .NET apps to Raspberry Pi
💻 Dot Net 7 with the Raspberry Pi from Pete Gallagher

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