After experimenting with and reading a lot about IoT technologies, I decided to create something. So here my first IoT project: The wifi enabled portable display. This tiny little display connects to a internet over Wifi and waits for messages. It is possible to send text messages or images to the d ...

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Someone rightly said , “A picture is worth a thousand words” ! In the electronics world we can say this translates to, “ A display is worth a thousand LEDs”. I have always wanted to add some sort of display to my microcontroller projects. The main issues I faced with this were: The most com ...

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In this article I will show you, how we can create a very basic wifi network detector using a ESP8266 module, a LED and some code. If you are new to ESP8266 I strongly recommend you read my introductory article on it. We will use a ordinary LED connected to one of the GPIO pins of ESP8266 to indicat ...

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IoT (Internet of things) is a hot topic these days. Simply put, IoT refers to a network of small interconnected devices that can communicate with each other.In last few years, we have seen steady flow of inexpensive and powerful programable embedded devices/boards. Arduino is an excellent example. T ...

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It has been a long time I posted something on my website. I was busy learning about NoSQL , mainly CouchDB. So, in this article I show you how to create a basic portfolio management web application using CouchDB and AngularJS. Our application will allow the user to add entries to a stock portfolio. ...

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I am sure many of you might have wished to have a portable C# compiler + editor combo which you can carry with you anywhere. Sometime ago, I had the same need. Unfortunately there exists no version of ‘Visual Studio’ which can be termed ‘light weight/portable’. Hence, I started researching for ways ...

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If you are new to ‘Raspberry pi‘ (a.k.a Raspi) like me, you might be wondering which operating system should you use with your Raspi. in this post, I will summarize what you can do with Raspbmc operating system . The Raspbmc OS is actually port of the famous XBMC project for Raspi. so here are some ...

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Recently javascript libraries like knockout.js have received lot of attention. Beyond any doubt, knockout.js is a really wonderful little library which allows you do MVVM inside browser using javascript. Now let us come to the question, Do I really need to us knockout.js in my ASP.NET (MVC/ WebAP ...

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The ‘ADO.NET Entity Framework’ introduces many new features which were not available with ‘LINQ to SQL’. One of the most important feature is it allows for ‘Code First’ approach. This approach has following characteristics: Entities matching the domain model are created first and not the database. ...

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After playing with my Freeduino kit for some time, I was surprised with number of things my Freeduino board could handle. So I decided to put all my components which I received with the kit permenantely on a single PCB and say good bye to my bread board. My goals were to: Create a low cost board w ...

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