Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click.
Running Node-RED is easiest in a Docker container. This is really easy to set up.
Eclipse Mosquitto is an open source (EPL/EDL licensed) message broker that implements the MQTT protocol versions 5.0, 3.1.1 and 3.1. Mosquitto is lightweight and is suitable for use on all devices from low power single board computers to full servers.
The MQTT protocol provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers.
Running Mosquitto is easiest in a Docker container. This is really easy to set up.
ScaleConf was an awesome 2 day conference. https://scaleconf.org/ In is held annually at Kirstenbosch, which is an amazing venue. There were some really interesting talks too!
I was lucky enough to this year be helping out at the Microsoft booth. I’m always in my element to be able to chat to the community about anything developer related.
It didn’t quite end up like that, and we ended up talking about what was requested, which was great. In my case, not only did I get to chat about Bots and ML .NET, but also got to speak about Xamarin and IoT too, which for me is always just plain awesome!!!
I had an incredible, but exhausting time at Microsoft Ignite the Tour Johannesburg. It was an amazing experience. I got to speak about Xamarin, AI and IoT, it doesn’t get much better than that. 🙂
There is demo code for taking Cross Platform reach to the extreme. For one code base you can target, iOS, Android, Android Things, Tizen, Blazor (Web Assembly), GTK (Linux, Windows, MacOS).
What was really cool. The @JHBMSDUG user group was showcased at the event. Lou van der Bijl, Matthew Leibowitz and Dustyn Lightfoot did amazing jobs!
On the big stage 🙂The Demo booths were amazing. 2 Sessions each of speaking 4 hours about Xamarin, AI and IoT. Happiness. 🙂
It was a real privilege being a small part of this event. The “AI Hack For Good” event was all about using AI to do something positive for social good.
It was also great fun being a mentor and helping to enable teams to complete their solutions using whichever technology they chose. (.NET, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin)
Microsoft the Home of AIRed Bull was handy IoT Edge with Cognitive Services All hard at work The awesome organization team
I did my part to improve laptops 🙂
Twitter Verse
It was truly inspiring being a small part of the "AI for Good Hack" last week in Johannesburg. Working with all these amazing teams, out to do good in the world with #ai was an incredible experience. Hope to see you at the next hack! #azure#python#dotnet#java#swift#kotlinpic.twitter.com/KCu7bSE4xT
The winners trophy of the #MSAIHACK at @MicrosoftSA went to Azure Gremlins. Innovative use of multiple features of @Azure to identify Fake News. Streaming services, sentiment analysis, @AzureML, @AzureCosmosDB, Bing Search API. Very impressive delivery in a short space of time!! pic.twitter.com/YibHDt0jzj
It was truly inspiring being a small part of the "AI for Good Hack" last week in Johannesburg. Working with all these amazing teams, out to do good in the world with #ai was an incredible experience. Hope to see you at the next hack! #azure#python#dotnet#java#swift#kotlinpic.twitter.com/KCu7bSE4xT
Team #SIGNificant take home R20 000 for their second place position. They worked on a solutions that uses AI to help translate and understand sign language #MSAIHackpic.twitter.com/659u1jxQZP
I started programming when I was 5. The ZX Spectrum started it all, back in the 80s. I recently started collecting ZX Spectrums. I’m also busy with IoT projects on Azure. Anything can really use Azure IoT Hubs, so how better to illustrate this than combine my two passions. 🙂
Last night was the Cross Platform Iot Session at CTXUG in Cape Town. The turnout was absolutely amazing! Thank you to all for coming it was a really fun evening!
Roger Weiss from Aliens kicked off with an overview of Windows 10 Iot Core and a few demos. These demos featured some awesome use of Microsoft Cognitive services and also some nifty voice controlled home automation.
It was then my turn. Unfortunately Chris van Wyk couldn’t make it this evening. 🙁
The session featured
Visual Micro for Visual Studio
Visual Studio Code with Arduino Extension which is now Open Source.
Xamarin Forms and Xamarin.Android with Android Things 0.41 Preview
The new Xamarin Iot preview for Linux based devices
Azure Iot Hubs
Devices wise
Raspberry Pi 3
Intel Edison
Raspberry Pi Zero W
Latte Panda and Arduino Leonardo
MXChip Azure Kit
Devices everywhere! Latte Panda, Pi With Android Things. NexDock
Last night was the Cross Iot Session at GXUGSA in Johannesburg. It’s always fun presenting all the Iot toys, but also what can actually be done with Xamarin and the rest of the Microsoft tooling.
It’s also not always clear that you can basically do anything you want with Xamarin, so always nice and exciting to showcase it outside the usual phone type scenarios.
Gert Talking Windows 10 Iot Core
The session featured
Visual Micro for Visual Studio
Visual Studio Code with Arduino Extension which is now Open Source.
Xamarin Forms and Xamarin.Android with Android Things 0.4 Preview
The new Xamarin Iot preview for Linux based devices
