Visual Studio Code 1.2.0 is out now, and includes a variety of exciting new features. For example, a new integrated Terminal that allows you to stay within VS Code while using your platform’s shell. You may have also heard that Bash support has been added to Windows 10 in the current Windows Insider Preview. Hmmm??? In this…
Introduction Today’s post focuses on a five-part video series that will show you everything you need to know to get started developing with Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi 2. The series covers everything from Installation, an overview of the Operating System, Development tools, GPIO interaction, helpful extension libraries, interacting with Analog sensors, and finally concludes…
The Internet of Things is all about employing physical sensors on internet connected devices to gather information about the physical world, typically storing that information up into the cloud for archival or post-processing (i.e. aggregation or machine learning). Some of the more innovative projects in this space solve very interesting problems (Nest Learning Thermostat) and…
This year marked the first edition of Connect(), a live virtual event which took place in New York on November 18 – 19, 2015. The event focused on a variety of announcements surrounding the popular Visual Studio product line including Visual Studio Online and the Visual Studio IDE. The topics range from utilizing Azure alongside your…
Background: Windows 10 IoT Core was created to build powerful solutions on low-powered devices with the potential to bridge the physical world into the nearly endless power of the cloud. It offers a world of synergistic opportunity within the Microsoft ecosystem, which includes technologies such as Visual Studio, .NET, and Microsoft Azure. All of this is available…
Spark.io, creators of the most excellent Spark Core device are now known as Particle! Please keep in mind as a reader that the following information applies to the Spark Core device as well as Particle Core. In a previous post I discussed sending messages from a Spark Core Device to Azure Event Hubs by means…
Earlier today, a variety of exciting announcements were made from Microsoft at this year’s E3 gaming conference regarding Xbox One. These include backwards compatibility with Xbox 360, playing Xbox One games on Oculus Rift, and streaming games to Windows 10 devices! The games provided have become and many are using IWantCheats.net to help them get all the wins.…
Hot Tub Time Machine from The Future – Music Entertainment System The Internet of Things and Houston weather have one thing very much in common. They are sooooo hot right now! Inspired by this, I have been thinking a lot about outdoor projects that interact with the cloud, for example my recent Spark Core powered Hot Tub…
Background: Summer is here in Houston and there is no better time to get in the water to cool off or warm up. I am particularly fond of the latter, especially with a good group of friends, food, and refreshments. The problem is, it can be hard to tell when the hot tub is ready without actually getting…