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WFH DIY Meeting Light Bulb

April 21, 2020 Apr 21, 2020 04/21/20

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In this post, Dev Consultant Ben Williams shares his unique solution involving a Wi-Fi enabled Smart LED Light Bulb to avoid interruptions while working from home.

Misty Robotics and Azure

January 15, 2020 Jan 15, 2020 01/15/20

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Social bots on the way. Now that we’ve voice commanded everything in our house, the natural next step is to give it a face, a response, a smile. When I demo’d Misty to our FIRST Robotics team, they immediately fell in love – it’s so cute, you just wanna pitch the cheeks.

Install IoT Edge on the Jetson TX2 running JetPack version 4.2

June 14, 2019 Jun 14, 2019 06/14/19

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JetPack 4.2 includes an Ubuntu 18.04 environment and updates to CUDA, Tensorflow, and Open CV. One of the best changes is support for Python 3 in the version of Open CV provided. In JetPack 3.3 a build of Open CV was necessary to support Python 3, and this was not a trivial undertaking.

Designing IoT Applications for Failure: Cloud Design Patterns that leverage the Retry Pattern

April 5, 2019 Apr 5, 2019 04/5/19

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The inherent nature of the cloud is that there can be momentary loss of network connectivity, temporary loss of service, and timeouts that can occur for a variety of reasons. By designing your application to handle these types of events gracefully, you can improve availability and minimize impact from transient events.

Getting Started with Windows 10 IoT Core & Raspberry Pi 3B+

March 12, 2019 Mar 12, 2019 03/12/19

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In this post, App Dev Manager, Robert Schumann shows how to get started with Windows 10 IoT Core with Raspberry Bi 3 B+. Jumping right in, let’s get a few matters out of the way upfront. Everything you need (to complete this article) You will need the HDMI cable to...

Remote Monitoring of IoT Devices Using Azure and HoloLens

December 21, 2018 Dec 21, 2018 12/21/18

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This is going to be an IoT solution, which receives data from connected devices, stores the data and makes it available for consumption by a holographic or mobile application. So, you will first learn to set up the backend infrastructure--where you will have a device--which connects with a Cloud Gateway. Data received by the Cloud Gateway is stored within persistent storage, and finally, this data will be made available to a Holographic or Mobile app through Web APIs.

Easy as Pi IoT on Windows 10 and Azure IoT Central!

November 7, 2018 Nov 7, 2018 11/7/18

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Have you ever tried building an IoT solution on an embedded device like a Raspberry Pi with an ARM processor? What languages did you have to use? What if that device had to send data to the cloud for dashboarding and alerting? How would you build the dashboard and manage alerts for authorized users?

How Azure IoT helped me buy a new house – Part 4 – Azure IoT Hub

June 4, 2018 Jun 4, 2018 06/4/18

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In the fourth post of his series, Premier Developer Consultant Steve St Jean expands on how Azure IoT helped him buy a new home. He goes into detail about how to configure within the Azure IoT Hub. In the first part of this series, I described the problem I was having, my hypothesis as to the source of the issue, and the steps I would take ...

How Azure IoT helped me buy a new house – Part 3 – ESP8266 Code

June 1, 2018 Jun 1, 2018 06/1/18

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In the third post of his series, Premier Developer Consultant Steve St Jean expands on how Azure IoT helped him buy a new home. He goes into detail about writing the code for the sensor rig to send telemetry data to Azure IoT Hub. In the first part of this series, I described the problem I was having, my hypothesis as to the source of the ...

How Azure IoT helped me buy a new house – Part 2 – Electronics

May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018 05/29/18

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In the second post of his series, Premier Developer Consultant Steve St Jean expands on how Azure IoT helped him buy a new home. He goes into detail about developing the IoT sensor rig. In the first part of this series, I described the problem I was having, my hypothesis as to the source of the issue, and the steps I would take to test my ...

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