Regional Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focusing on communities in the Pacific North West and the Redmond Reactor.
Learn how to build Raspberry Pi and Python powered holiday lights controlled by Azure IoT Central and Microsoft Power Apps.…
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 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 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 MoreLearn how to build a live captioner using Python and the Azure Cognitive Services…
Read MoreLearn how to connect a PyCom board to Azure IoT Hub…
Read MoreLearn how Jim used Azure Media Services to fix his dumb mistakes when recording video!…
Read MoreI've just finished watching the latest episode of Five Things, where Suz Hinton talks with Burke about Goo Goo Clusters and IoT devices. One of the devices Suz showed was the Azure IoT DevKit - an arduino compatible board made by MXChip that works beautifully with Azure, even down to having an Azure LED on board to show when it is connected. Thi…
Read MoreI recently recorded a quick video to talk about an app I was building using the Azure free account. You can check it out here: If you want to see the code, it's in my GitHub repo here - https://github.com/jimbobbennett/AzurePhotoSharer…
Read MoreDentists don't want you to know these 5 tips that show how easy it is to run multiple Azure Functions apps locally and debug them all at the same time! Number 3 will shock you! Enough ClickBait nonsense, on to the post. I recently built a demo app that has two Azure Functions projects in it - one using the new V2 Functions runtime and written…
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