New and Events
Microsoft IoT DevCamps Announced!
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
Azure, IoT, Software Development, Uncategorized
Sending messages to Azure Event Hub with Spark over AMS API Proxy
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
In this article, I will describe how to publish data from a Spark Core to an Azure Event Hub for real-time processing using Azure Mobile Services as a message proxy. Spark OS is a distributed operating system for the Internet of Things that brings the power of the cloud to low-cost connected hardware. Spark provides…
Kinect
Training Kinect4NES to Control Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!
by Paul DeCarlo • • 4 Comments
Kinect4NES @ HackRice – First Time Player Knocks out Glass Joe In a previous post, I talked about how to create an interface to send controller commands to an NES based on interaction with the Kinect v2. The idea was successful, but I received a bit of feedback on the control being less than optimal and…
IoT, Software Development
Porting Open Source Libraries to Windows for IoT (mincore)
by Paul DeCarlo • • 2 Comments
Microsoft is bringing Windows to a new class of small devices. Riding the crest of the “Internet of Things” movement, Microsoft is looking to capitalize on devices and sensor capabilities of popular development boards. Recently, members of the Windows Developer Program for IoT have been able to gain access to a build of Windows which supports…
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Mo’ Code Movember – A Month of Code happening in Houston!
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
It looks like November is shaping up to be an event-packed month with various hackathons / coding challenges taking place at UH, Rice, and near UHD in the EaDo area. To participate in Mo’ Code Movember you will want to join the official Facebook Event and view the contest rules! Seeing these events laid out, I…
Kinect, Software Development
Kinect4NES – Control your classic NES with the Power of Kinect v2
by Paul DeCarlo • • 19 Comments
Kinect4NES Recently, I have found myself becoming involved in the exciting world of “IoT” or internet of things. All of this started while attending a presentation on the subject that was put on by my fellow colleague Bret Stateham. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of “IoT”, I like to think of it as a programmable system…
Azure, Software Development
Introducing Azure Media Services – Uploading File Content to Azure Media Service
by Paul DeCarlo • • 1 Comment
Azure Media Services allows you to leverage the highly scalable Azure infrastructure to deliver media content on demand. It boasts the ability to deliver content at a scale equivalent of that used to distribute the Olympics to viewers worldwide! It addition, it supports the ability to live stream muli-bitrate broadcasts, encode content on the fly, and…
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Using Web App Template in App Studio to Publish Top-Music-Videos.com WP8 in 25 Steps
by Paul DeCarlo • • 1 Comment
Microsoft’s App Studio portal allows developers to build rapid prototypes as well as full blown applications quickly and easily on any machine with a capable web browser. This has resulted in thousands of published apps from developers around the world! In today’s post, I am going to focus on one of the many provided templates, the Web…
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Adblock for Buffalo WHR-G54 running DD-WRT
by Paul DeCarlo • • 3 Comments
You can install and run adblock on your devices at home and create an ad-free experience for users of those devices, or you can block ads at the router level and block ads for every device on your network. Using a WHR-G54 router flashed with DD-WRT I was able to implement such a solution in…
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2nd Annual Houston Hackathon nets Honorable Mention for Team Awesome
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
This year marked the 2nd annual Houston Hackathon held at the Houston Technology Center in Downtown Houston. This year’s event pitted 18 teams against each other to brainstorm up and prototype a technological innovation which benefits the city for the chance to pitch the idea to mayor Annise Parker. Patrick Wolf, Jesus Hernandez, Thomas Garza,…