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Teaching Watson to See My Garage

After a long day of work, I like to head out to my garage and tinker, binge the latest series, listen to a podcast, or settle in with a book. If the weather

  • Kevin Hoyt
7 min read
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LightBlue Bean to IBM Cloud

The LightBlue Bean, by Punch Through, is one of my favorite IoT development platforms. The Bean has many parts, including an iOS application called the LightBlue Explorer, that lets you view and control

  • Kevin Hoyt
6 min read
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Slap Robin with the ZX Gesture Sensor

Every now and again, I run across a sensor that just sounds like fun. Such is the case when I read about the ZX Gesture Sensor from Sparkfun and XYZ Interactive. Put it

  • Kevin Hoyt
4 min read
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Particle and Google Maps Integration

At Google IO 2017 just a few weeks ago, Particle announced an integration with Google Maps. This integration allowed you to get the location of a Photon without the need for a GPS.

  • Kevin Hoyt
3 min read
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Web Bluetooth Bean

Bluetooth has been around for a while now, but it has always been a feature for native applications. The Web Bluetooth specification has been brewing for a while, lived under a flag for

  • Kevin Hoyt
5 min read
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Tessel Barcode Scanner: Software

In my previous post, I show how you can connect a barcode scanner to a USB port on the Tessel, and read the scanned values. While that is interesting, what is more interesting

  • Kevin Hoyt
6 min read
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Tessel Barcode Scanner: Hardware

In addition to the two module ports on the Tessel, there are also two USB ports. USB, while big and bulky in many IoT projects, can provide a useful access point to hardware.

  • Kevin Hoyt
4 min read
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Custom Tessel Module

Not too long ago now, I presented at Windy City Things 2016 in Chicago. Among the IoT boards I showed there was the Tessel. I have written about the Tessel before, and how

  • Kevin Hoyt
3 min read
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Tessel on Watson IoT

Do you know JavaScript? Do you like IoT? Lean towards open standards? Then the Tessel should be right up your alley! Tessel is a hardware development platform. It has both Ethernet and 802.

  • Kevin Hoyt
5 min read
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Electric Imp on Watson IoT

I recently posted about connecting a Particle Photon and your browser to the Watson IoT Platform. Both of these systems easily supports publish/subscribe using MQTT. What happens when you have a device

  • Kevin Hoyt
5 min read
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Your Browser on Watson IoT

In my previous blog post, I connected a Particle Photon to Watson IoT. At several points during that post I mentioned the subtleties of device connectivity versus application connectivity, but I did not

  • Kevin Hoyt
4 min read
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Particle Photon on Watson IoT

IBM has had an IoT platform offering for a while now in various forms. The most recent evolution falls under the Watson brand, and includes device management, and authentication. Marketed as the Watson

  • Kevin Hoyt
8 min read
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Decoupling IoT Rendering

I recently received a comment from a visitor using one of my Arduino-to-WebSocket examples. They had a requirement for a specific charting library. The problem is that the library could not handle the

  • Kevin Hoyt
5 min read
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IoT Weather on Android

In a previous post I talked about moving from request-response to using the publish-subscribe pattern. This pattern allows our application parts to listen for changes in a decoupled fashion. This works great with

  • Kevin Hoyt
4 min read
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Cloudant Continuous Feed

Over the past several examples, new documents in IBM Cloudant have been discovered by continuously polling the database. This is not only inefficient at scale, but creates a tight coupling between our clients

  • Kevin Hoyt
4 min read
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IoT Weather on Cloudant

Getting weather data from a service is all fine and dandy, but in this day and age of IoT (Internet of Things), it almost seems more likely that you will be getting data

  • Kevin Hoyt
6 min read
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Particle Photon

The company Spark, which became popular with their Core product, has recently changed the name of their company to Particle. The successor to the Spark Core then is the Particle Photon. I have

  • Kevin Hoyt
4 min read
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Real-Time Smart Buildings

What is your favorite building? The office? The coffee shop down the street? Your home? Maybe a shed out back? Whatever the case, there is no shortage of ways to augment your home

  • Kevin Hoyt
5 min read
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First Steps with Intel Edison

There are a lot of SoC (System on a Chip) devices out there these days. I have written about the Arduino Yun in the past. Today I would like to introduce you to

  • Kevin Hoyt
9 min read
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Messaging and the New Web

The Widget Company now has two successful devices on the market. WidgetX (LED) has a web server built into it, and is expecting REST operations for control. WidgetY (photocell) has a WebSocket server

  • Kevin Hoyt
7 min read
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IoT and the New Web

All too often, we as developers, focus on technology for what it can do for us - and usually in a particularly one-sided conversation. Every now and again however, there comes a time

  • Kevin Hoyt
4 min read
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Real-Time Quadcopter Telemetry

Modern commercial aircraft have what is commonly referred to as a "black box". The black box is a flight data recorder. It captures numerous sensor data points across the aircraft, and

  • Kevin Hoyt
4 min read
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