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The Internet of Nouns: How Twitter and Foursquare Changed My Life

April 8, 2021 Hans Life, ThingSpeak

Social networks and location sharing apps took off in the late 2000’s. These megatrends made a huge impact on my life and led me to

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CheerLights for Raspberry Pi Zero W and Blinkt!

December 15, 2020 Hans CheerLights, ThingSpeak

Well, it’s that time of year… CheerLights time of year! I started CheerLights back in 2011 with one set of lights. Now there are lights

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Adafruit Matrix Portal LED Display Diffused Acrylic Stand

December 8, 2020 Hans CheerLights, Projects, ThingSpeak

I bought some parts over at Adafruit to build some ThingSpeak and CheerLights projects. If you know me, I am always attracted to multicolored lights

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‘On Air’ Light for Microsoft Teams and Zoom Meetings

March 28, 2020 Hans Featured, Hardware, Projects, Projects, ThingSpeak

Back in the 90’s, the 1990’s, I used to be a late-night radio show host on Froggy. I was known as Jeremiah Bullfrog. When I

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Real-time Colors on CheerLights

June 27, 2019 Hans CheerLights, Hardware, Projects, ThingSpeak

CheerLights now supports the MQTT protocol. This means that devices and apps can receive real-time updates to changes in the CheerLights color without polling for

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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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Nursery Robot Connected to CheerLights

July 30, 2018 Hans Projects, ThingSpeak

Introducing CheerLights… CheerLights is an “Internet of Things” project created by Hans Scharler that allows people’s lights all across the world to synchronize to one

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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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