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RoboPet: Building a connected Robot for interacting with Pets remotely
Watch this video on YouTube. Recently there has been an Arduino Robot competition organised by RobotChallenge. The best 10 ideas were rewarded with an Arduino Robot for building and presenting their...
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Makerland 2014
Makerland 2014, the first event of this Makerland series, took place in Warsaw, Poland between 17-19 March. I have to say it was definitely a big success and a positive experience for anyone that has...
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Update on Philips Hue Node-RED Node
Based on recent communication with guys from Node-RED, the Hue node has been modified to include the following features: You can now set also the brightness level (0->100) of a lamp By setting the...
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The popularity of the ‘Internet of Things’
From Wikipedia page on Internet of Things We are all aware of the hype and the great media attraction on the ‘Internet of Things’: predictions about zillions of connected objects, white papers,...
View ArticleBridging REST to MQTT – Web apps talking to constrained devices
If you are into connecting your embedded devices to the Internet, you have most likely heard (and probably used) of the Message Queueing Telemetry Transport protocol, mostly known as MQTT, which...
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A connected Christmas Tree using an Arduino, a RapsberryPi and WebSockets
It’s not too late to make your Christmas Tree connected to the Internet and let your friends control the lights over the web! There are many similar implementations online (even in public spaces) and...
View ArticleMQTT Client – Will topic and message retain
I was recently looking into implementing a MQTT client application where the server (and other clients) are notified when a client is disconnected. By definition the MQTT protocol supports such a...
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VIPER: A cross-platform IoT design framework
Some folks from the University of Pisa have come with an interesting idea of creating a cross-platform framework for IoT. The main concept is to use a scripting language (Python in this case) and...
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Using Amazon Echo (Alexa) as an Interface for the IoT
The Amazon Echo device has just been made available for pre-orders in the US. For those not familiar with it, Echo is a device that interacts with users verbally and can “provide information, answer...
View ArticleA social-dancing Robot with Arduino and MQTT
Last month I was invited to give a talk at the WSO2 EU Conference on Open Source software for the IoT vs WSO2 modules. During the event a nice hackathon took also place. We were asked to build in 6...
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