serverless Functions, Storage, Watson ... Oh, My! I have a love-hate relationship with serverless. My style of development definitely trends towards dropping a function in the cloud and calling it done. But the tooling, integration, and best practices are still maturing. It is however, fun to watch the technology evolve. Recently Apache OpenWhisk [https://openwhisk.apache.org/
watson Teaching Watson to See My Garage After a long day of work, I like to head out to my garage and tinker, binge the latest series, listen to a podcast, or settle in with a book. If the weather is right, I will open the garage door. Eventually I will head to bed. Then it hits
watson LightBlue Bean to IBM Cloud The LightBlue Bean [https://punchthrough.com/bean], by Punch Through, is one of my favorite IoT development platforms. The Bean has many parts, including an iOS application called the LightBlue Explorer [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lightblue-explorer-bluetooth-low-energy/id557428110?mt=8] , that lets you view and control nearby Beans. The
watson Slap Robin with the ZX Gesture Sensor Every now and again, I run across a sensor that just sounds like fun. Such is the case when I read about the ZX Gesture Sensor from Sparkfun and XYZ Interactive. Put it together with the Internet, and I just may have gotten a little slap-happy. The Sensor The ZX
watson Watson Conversation System Entities If you are building a chatbot, then Watson offers a product called Conversation. If you are wanting to get keywords from a body of text, Watson offers Natural Language Understanding. Sometimes however you are looking for something in-between. This is a post about that in-between. Natural Language Understanding The Watson
watson Content Keywords with Watson and Python I am always impressed by Python when I have to use it. The community always has great content, and the surface coverage of the language is immense. This allows you to do a whole lot in a very few lines of code. While I generally have to use Python on
tessel Tessel Barcode Scanner: Software In my previous post, I show how you can connect a barcode scanner to a USB port on the Tessel, and read the scanned values. While that is interesting, what is more interesting is in doing something with that value. In this post we will take a look at finding
tessel Custom Tessel Module Not too long ago now, I presented at Windy City Things 2016 in Chicago. Among the IoT boards I showed there was the Tessel. I have written about the Tessel [https://krhoyt.ghost.io/2014/11/19/tessel-to-parse-com/] before [https://krhoyt.ghost.io/2016/09/01/tessel-on-watson-iot/], and how approachable
tessel Tessel on Watson IoT Do you know JavaScript? Do you like IoT? Lean towards open standards? Then the Tessel should be right up your alley! Tessel is a hardware development platform. It has both Ethernet and 802.11 b/g/n support (and more), and you develop for it using Node.js (or Rust,
watson Electric Imp on Watson IoT I recently posted about connecting a Particle Photon [https://krhoyt.ghost.io/2016/04/27/particle-photon-on-watson-iot/] and your browser [https://krhoyt.ghost.io/2016/04/28/your-browser-on-watson-iot/] to the Watson IoT Platform [http://www.ibm.com/internet-of-things/]. Both of these systems easily supports publish/subscribe using MQTT. What happens when
watson Your Browser on Watson IoT In my previous [https://krhoyt.ghost.io/2016/04/27/particle-photon-on-watson-iot/] blog post, I connected a Particle Photon [https://www.particle.io/] to Watson IoT [https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/services/internet-of-things-platform/]. At several points during that post I mentioned the subtleties of device connectivity versus application connectivity, but
iot Particle Photon on Watson IoT IBM has had an IoT platform offering for a while now in various forms. The most recent evolution falls under the Watson brand, and includes device management, and authentication. Marketed as the Watson IoT Platform [https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/services/internet-of-things-platform/], the messaging layer is MQTT supported by
