The Iona Group’s Chad Udell will be presenting at New York City’s “Flash and The City” conference in May 2010. This marks the first time we’ve presented in the Big Apple and it is shaping up to be a great event. Some of the best and brightest in the RIA and Flash commmunity are presenting there and we’re honored to be part of the show! For more information on the event, please visit the site at http://flashandthecity.com.

From the site:

Hacking Robots for Fun and Profit

This is a fun one! Learn how to hack up robots you can buy at a local toy store. You’ll see the methods used to take the video stream out of the robot and turn it into a format Flash likes. You’ll get the lowdown on how to send API commands to control the bot. We’ll show you how to connect it to alternative controllers and use ActionScript for some simple color detection on the video stream. There are a lot of other robotics coming to market now and most have some public facing APIs just ripe for hacking, come get some insight in how to get started and have fun!

You really do not want to miss this!