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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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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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How to Reset the Arduino MKR1000

July 12, 2017 Hans ThingSpeak

I am working on a project that uses the Arduino MKR1000 with ThingSpeak. While working on my code, I uploaded a bad sketch to the

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CheerLights Robot for Your Nursery

February 28, 2017 Hans CheerLights, Nursery Hacks, ThingSpeak

I shared my latest project over on my Nursery Hacks website. It combines some of my favorite things… IoT, CheerLights, ThingSpeak, Particle, and building things

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Measure Wi-Fi Signal Levels with the ESP8266 and ThingSpeak

February 1, 2017 Hans Featured, Projects, ThingSpeak

Oh, my. I am sure you have been hearing about the Internet of Things… The IoT! You might be wondering how to get started with

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Learn How to Use MQTT.fx with ThingSpeak

January 23, 2017 Hans ThingSpeak

ThingSpeak just announced that they added MQTT as a way to send data to a ThingSpeak channel. This is great news since a lot of

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Are Open Source IoT Platforms Ready for Primetime?

October 3, 2016 Hans ThingSpeak

Bruce Sinclair of IoT-Inc. recently asked me to be a guest on his Internet of Things podcast, the IoT Business Show. I have been a faithful

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Twilio Rickrolls You Using Their API

September 22, 2016 Hans ThingSpeak

I have been working with the Twilio API for a few of my projects. I have used Twilio to call me when disk space is

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MQTT is So Hot Right Now

August 11, 2016 Hans ThingSpeak

I am preparing for my IoT talk today and researching the popularity of common IoT protocols. I discovered that MQTT as a Google search term

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