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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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‘On Air’ Light for Microsoft Teams and Zoom Meetings

March 28, 2020 Hans Featured, Hardware, 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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(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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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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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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