{"id":377,"date":"2026-02-19T11:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevingordon.org.uk\/tech\/?post_type=portfolio&p=377"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:02:56","slug":"lego-smart-things-payments","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.kevingordon.org.uk\/tech\/portfolio\/lego-smart-things-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Smart Things & Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Things made of Lego, making autonomous payments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Lego
Lego smart house sketch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hackathon
Hackathon mentors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Challenge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How can payments work in the world of the autonomous things and IoT devices? I took an early Smart Parking demo and turned it into a reusable ecosystem that supported Hackathons, innovation events, and developer outreach – all focussed on machine-to-machine payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Payments
Payments and IoT devices hackathon in Romania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My role<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I led the design of the Worldpay Within SD, an embeddable payments agent for IoT that lets smart devices talk to each other, negotiate services, and make or receive payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I led and collaborated with a team of Innovation Analysts and developers, and then I created a programme of global hackathons which I organised, and presented at and mentored teams to build demo-able solutions utilising Worldpay Within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Smart
Smart bridge using Worldpay Within<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Solution and impact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Developers learned how to eCommerce style payments into smart devices using various programming languages and hardware, whilst building playful prototypes using Lego, Raspberry Pi, and other components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These events combined education and competition, participants experimented with connected cars, automated delivery concepts, Alexa integration, smart vending, all powered by device-to-device payments and a Discover-Select-Pay-Release autonomous flow, with a secure Trust Trigger to release services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hackathon
Hackathon attendees group shot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Depth of technology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Worldpay Within was implemented in Go with a Thrift based RPC layer that exposed SDKs for C#, Go, Java, Python and Node.js – this enabled a range of integration opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deployed to Raspberry Pi, interacting with 3D printers, Lego robotics, breadboards, sensors, actuators, RFID\/NFC scanners to showcase an architecture that allows autonomous devices to discover services, agree pricing, pay, and trigger a service or action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Worldpay
Worldpay Within documentation website.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Embedding
Embedding payments in IoT devices<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Lego
Lego kanban board at hackathon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lego Smart Things made of Lego, making autonomous payments. How can payments work in the world of the autonomous things and IoT devices? I took an early Smart Parking demo and turned it into a reusable ecosystem that supported Hackathons, innovation events, and developer outreach – all focussed on machine-to-machine payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[7],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-377","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-worldpay"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t