Etienne Caron

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Tech Founder, Kanastruk Inc.

Talk Title

DiY Android Kiosks: Turning a Raspberry Pi into a Modular Workhorse

Room

Salle Blin

Date

11.04.2025

Time

10:15 > 45 min

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What happens when you take a Raspberry Pi with a touchscreen, slap Android on it, and bolt it onto an 80/20 aluminum cube? You get a kiosk that does way more than your average locked-down tablet.

I'll show you how to build your own modular Android-based system that plays nice with USB peripherals you wouldn’t normally expect: Think webcams, and servos for automated 3D scanning and photography. We'll see how to stream or record video and audio, process it with ML models, and generate time-stamped work logs.

Add a barcode scanner, a payment terminal, and a scale to verify weights, and suddenly, you’ve got a DIY point-of-sale for pop-up stores, warehouses, or even recycling centers.

Join us for a fun exploration into how Android can be pushed beyond its usual limits, in kiosk mode!

Speaker Bio

Etienne Caron is the technical founder of Kanastruk, an innovation lab specializing in software development, IoT, machine learning, and embedded systems. For the past few years, he has led the company, partnering with notable clients such as Bell Canada and Instacart.

Etienne began his career as a back-end developer in the late nineties, pivoting to mobile development in the early 2010s. He has worked across all tiers of large-scale software platforms, including server, web, mobile, and embedded systems.

• Staff developer for the e-commerce store management application at Shopify.
• Senior Android developer on the Hatchful™ Logo Maker at Shopify.
• Android team lead on the TrueKey™ password management app for Intel / McAfee.
• Senior developer on the Nina™ Mobile speech recognition SDK at Nuance Communications.

With over 25 years of experience, Etienne remains a dedicated community member, actively mentoring startups, developers, and students. He lives in Montreal, Canada, with his wife and daughter and is fluent in both French and English.