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Functions, Storage, Watson ... Oh, My!

I have a love-hate relationship with serverless. My style of development definitely trends towards dropping a function in the cloud and calling it done. But the tooling, integration, and best practices are still maturing. It is however, fun to watch the technology evolve. Recently Apache OpenWhisk (IBM Cloud Functions) released

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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 is right, I will open the garage door. Eventually I will head to bed. Then it hits

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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 nearby Beans. The gang over at Punch Through recently added the ability for the Explorer application to

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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 together with the Internet, and I just may have gotten a little slap-happy. The Sensor The ZX

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Watson Conversation System Entities

If you are building a chatbot, then Watson offers a product called Conversation. If you are wanting to get keywords from a body of text, Watson offers Natural Language Understanding. Sometimes however you are looking for something in-between. This is a post about that in-between. Natural Language Understanding The Watson

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Content Keywords with Watson and Python

I am always impressed by Python when I have to use it. The community always has great content, and the surface coverage of the language is immense. This allows you to do a whole lot in a very few lines of code. While I generally have to use Python on

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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 is in doing something with that value. In this post we will take a look at finding

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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 approachable it is for a JavaScript developer. Do not let the approachability fool you though, there are

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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 802.11 b/g/n support (and more), and you develop for it using Node.js (or Rust,

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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 that does not support MQTT, yet still needs to communicate with Watson IoT? In this post we

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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 really show the application side. In this post, I will pick up the messages from the Photon

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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 IoT Platform, the messaging layer is MQTT supported by IBM MessageSight. MQTT is an ISO standard largely