Ever wanted to track things happening in your garden, neighborhood or school using smart garden ornaments? Now you can using BBC micro:bits and a cloud-based IoT service.…
Read MoreThis project builds a wearable, cloud connected camera. This is useful in situations where you want a record of what the camera sees stored in the cloud as quickly as possible. Make sure you use this in compliance will all applicable laws and privacy considerations.…
Read MoreLearn how to train a TinyML word recognizer to run on a microcontroller using Azure ML Studio and the Adafruit EdgeBadge.…
Read MoreLike a lot of folks at the moment, I'm working for home and my child is off school. For those reading this in the future and wondering why, I am currently living in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and worldwide toilet paper shortages. One of the upsides of working from home, especially when my 7 year old is off school is that I am available mos…
Read MoreLearn how to set the Azure IoT Hub connection string on an MXChip board in code.…
Read MoreLearn how to use Stream Analytics to stream data from an IoT hub to a database such as Cosmos DB…
Read MoreYou're at an MLH Hackathon and you decide you want to win the Domain.com prize for the best domain name registered at the event. You've decided on the ultimate name, and now you want to use it for your hack... Here's how to connect it to Azure app service.…
Read MoreCome as you are, do what you loveI've been asked a few times for thoughts and tips around getting an internship at Microsoft. So in the spirit of "I didn't have time to reply to you so I wrote this blog post", I thought I'd provide a stack of resources useful to folks wanting to know more about the process. ApplicationInterested in an internship he…
Read MoreLearn how to show an Azure Maps control on a web page, and add pins and paths to the map…
Read MoreA Geofence is a virtual boundary defined using an area on a map. Azure Maps has tools for checking if a coordinate is inside that Geofence. This post looks at how to do these checks.…
Read MoreThe MXChip board has 2 serial ports - one using the USB which is great for debugging, and one you can use to stream data from third party modules. This article shows you how! TL;DR - connect the TXD on the module to 1 on the MXChip, RXD to 2, then create a new Serial using UARTClass Serial1(UART_1); You can then call this in the same way as the Ard…
Read MoreI've been playing a lot with the Azure Custom Vision Service - a great service to build image classification and object detection models with just a few images. To make it easier to test my models, I wanted to build a mobile app that connects to a custom vision project and uses that to classify or detect objects in images captured using the camera.…
Read MoreLearn how to build a live captioner using Python and the Azure Cognitive Services…
Read MoreLearn how to launch Try .NET from VS Code using the debug menu instead of the terminal.…
Read MoreTry .NET is a new thing to come from the .NET teams that allows you to, well, try .NET. In a browser. You can think of it as a way to create interactive .NET documentation using .NET Core. What is Try .NETThe experience or writing code in a browser itself isn't new, developers have been able to try out C# coding snippets in the browser for a while…
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