--- title: "Beyond REST: .NET Apps That Talk to Hardware | DEM365" url: https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-rest-net-apps-that-talk-to-hardware-dem365-pub9xuafb source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wvM8H_MUQU type: video:youtube source: "Microsoft Developer" published: 2026-06-04T14:08:43.085Z updated: 2026-06-04T14:09:10.821Z tags: [".net", "iot", "bluetooth", ".net-maui"] reading_time: 25 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Beyond REST: .NET Apps That Talk to Hardware | DEM365 **[Microsoft Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/microsoftdeveloper)** · 25 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A conference talk covering how .NET developers can build apps that interact with physical hardware using Bluetooth Low Energy, NFC, USB, and Wi-Fi protocols. The speaker explains BLE concepts by mapping them to familiar REST/HTTP analogies (services as API roots, characteristics as endpoints, read/write/notify as HTTP verbs). He also presents a hardware test harness he built to enable AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot to reliably develop and debug hardware integrations — bridging the gap between unit tests and manual QA by running scripted tests against real connected devices. .NET MAUI and Uno Platform are highlighted as cross-platform frameworks that expose native hardware sensors. The talk also touches on on-device AI inference, the competitive moat of hardware products, and the challenges of iOS USB certification (MFI). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Integrating Native Device Features in .NET MAUI with Built‑In APIs](https://daily.dev/posts/integrating-native-device-features-in-net-maui-with-built-in-apis-afigz5kxo) · Syncfusion · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net), [#iot](https://daily.dev/tags/iot), [#bluetooth](https://daily.dev/tags/bluetooth), [#.net-maui](https://daily.dev/tags/.net-maui) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-rest-net-apps-that-talk-to-hardware-dem365-pub9xuafb)