🤖 I do things with IoT and academic advocacy in the DevRel team at Microsoft.
Want to host IoT labs remotely? This solution shows you how to do it using Raspberry Pis and Azure IoT Hub to provide a secure SSH connection.…
Read MoreI recently had a student reach out to me with some great questions around Edge computing and how it matches to IoT, and indeed why even use the cloud with IoT. They have to write a paper on the difference between edge computing and just using the cloud, and were researching these terms and trying to understand the whys and hows. There is currently…
Read MoreLearn how to build Raspberry Pi and Python powered holiday lights controlled by Azure IoT Central and Microsoft Power Apps.…
Read MoreEver 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 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 connect a PyCom board to Azure IoT Hub…
Read MoreLearn how to build an internet connected fan using the MXChip Azure IoT dev kit and Azure IoT Hub…
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…
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