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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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WebSocket on Android

In a previous post, I talked about hosting a WebSocket server on IBM Bluemix. With the help of a little Node.js on the server, and a browser in hand, we were able to create a functional chat program. Since WebSocket is an open standard however, we can talk to

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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 data rates coming from the Arduino. In this post I break down why that is, and give

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WebSocket on IBM Bluemix

As IBM Bluemix can host a variety of language runtimes (PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, ASP.NET, to name a few), and most languages have a WebSocket server implementation, you can then in turn run a WebSocket server on IBM Bluemix. In this post I will take a look at

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WidgetY and the New Web

My how time flies! The Widget Company has gone on to make many new friends with the revolutionary WidgetX device. Connected to the Internet, you have the power to control an LED through a simple web page. Magnificent! Sales are at an all-time high, and customers love it. With that

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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 records them for playback in the case of a catastrophe. As we have seen lately however, the