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Lovebox: Internet of Things for Valentine’s Day

February 12, 2019 Hans ThingSpeak

It’s that time of year again… It’s time to show the person who you love how much you love them with an internet-connected gift. I got

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(My) History of the Internet of Things

December 5, 2018 Hans ThingSpeak

Back in 2007, Jason Winters and I started working on what would become ioBridge, RealTime.io, and ThingSpeak. The phrase “Internet of Things” got added to the

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Control IFTTT Webhooks with MATLAB

October 19, 2018 Hans CheerLights, ThingSpeak

Yesterday, I was building an integration with IFTTT and my Philips Hue lights in my office. I wanted the Philips Hue lights to change to

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Meeting Richard Launius, Designer of Arkham Horror Board Game

September 12, 2018 Hans Arkham Horror, Games

As the story goes, Richard Launius designed a board game based on the Call of Chutulu RPG. Richard was not able to get time to play

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ThingSpeak at the Boston TechJam

June 27, 2018 Hans ThingSpeak

I recently got the change to give a ThingSpeak IoT demo at Boston TechJam. MathWorks is one of the sponsors so we got to participate with other

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Getting Ready for the Bay Area Maker Faire!

May 9, 2018 Hans ThingSpeak

I have a lot of favorite times of the year. I get excited about the holidays, weekends, evenings, and days. I am usually filling each day with

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I Have Gone Too Far With My Label Maker

May 5, 2018 Hans Workshop

I love bins. I love sorted electronics parts and tools. I love matching bins. After I sorted everything in my workshop, I wondered what I

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Gaming with Edo Interview About Building Game Design Communities

January 17, 2018 Hans Games

I really love building communities. And, I really, really love tabletop games. After moving to a new area for my technology career, I wondered how

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Use the New MQTT Service from ThingSpeak for Real-time CheerLights Updates

December 10, 2017 Hans CheerLights, ThingSpeak

It’s that time again. That time when people all across the world synchronize their lights together with CheerLights! People have built amazing CheerLights displays. I

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Use AWS DeepLens to Determine If Hotdog or Not Hotdog

December 5, 2017 Hans ThingSpeak

While at re:Invent, I got to take a deep learning workshop to learn about the new capabilities of AWS such as SageMaker and Greengrass. We

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