Background After recently receiving my Amazon Echo I’ve been itching to build something for it, so this competition came at just the right time! I did manage to get a skill published which assists in getting your AWS DevOps Professional Certification by asking you sample questions (available at http://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html#skills/dp/B01HCJSXKK/?ref=skill_dsk_skb_sr_0 if you have an echo), but […]
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Hardware components: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Ă— 1 TI LaunchPad MSP-EXP430G2 MSP430 LaunchPad Ă— 1 HC-SR04 ultrasonic range finder Ă— 1 28BYJ48 Stepper Motor (optional) Ă— 1 JY-MCU Bluetooth uart Ă— 1 X113647 Ă— 1 Jumper wires (generic) Ă— 1 Breadboard (generic) Ă— 1 resistor 10K Ă— 2 Software apps and online services: Microsoft
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In the era of Internet of Things, we wanted most of our home appliances to become smart. But currently, smart devices may cost much more than their offline counterparts and they often do not communicate with each other. Trying to overcome these limitations, A Ph.D student invented a way to turn entire rooms into smart
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Story The Intelligent Conference Room project uses Wi-Fi to broadcast whether a room is occupied or not as well as it’s temperature, pressure, altitude and light ambiance data every 10 seconds to cloud data channels. The data can be seen on Windows10 UWP app, iOS and Android app. You can view some prettier graphs of the data
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The maintenance of city streets is one of the most visible indicators of a city government’s performance. Every year, US cities spend Billions of $$$ on the maintenance and upkeep of roads. The methods used to survey streets range from: Citizens calling in potholes, or reporting via Apps. “windshield surveying” where a trained inspector assigns a
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An interface conveys information and allows the user to control things. Most home automation platforms rely on a “virtual interface ”. You pull out a smart phone and open the app to see what’s going on with your house and turn lights on and off. That works OK when you’re away. But looking at a
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STORY Update 08-15-2015: Project converted to Visual Studio 2015 RTM Windows 10 IoT Core Realtime communication using PubNub Windows 10 IoT Core and PubNub are great tools for makers, we can easily send and receive message to and from devices. The device can be controlled from outside world, the device ca communicate with other devices
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Story Update 08-15-2015: Project converted to Visual Studio 2015 RTM Luminosity Sensor Sample using Windows IoT Core As you all know Microsoft released Insider Preview of Windows 10 IoT Core recently. I too download and installed it on my RPi2. While playing with Windows 10 IoT Core, I decided to work on TSL2561 Luminosity Sensor
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Story This project uses the Adafruit Starter Pack for Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi kit components to create a project that uses a sensor to read the temperature, barometric pressure, humidity and altitude. This works just fine with either the older Raspberry Pi 2 kit or the newer version with the Raspberry Pi
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Story The goal of this project was to create a set of robotic tanks to do battle where the operators got a more realistic feel for controlling the vehicles using the Leap Motion controller. I wanted to create the robot tanks inexpensively, so people could replicate the project as easily as possible. The tank body
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