Internet of Things Messaging, Part 2: The Mosquitto MQTT broker
Getting the free, open source, efficient, and robust Mosquitto MQTT broker up and running
Cluster HAT, the easiest way to build a Raspberry Pi Zero cluster
One Cluster HAT, four Raspberry Pi Zeros, and one controller Raspberry Pi, and for under $100 you have a working cluster.
The Rosie Pattern Language, a better way to mine your data
Goodbye regex, hello Rosie Pattern Language, a better way to mine your data.
PIXEL, the latest Raspberry Pi OS ... for x86!
Merry Pi-mas! Santa's got your present: PIXEL, a highly modified version of x86 Debian from the RPi Foundation that will (eventually) run on everything. You must have been good.
New OS X Tools for Photographers
The OS X apps in this review make creating the perfect photo a whole lot easier
The Ring Stick Up Cam. Don't bother.
Ring's new Stick Up Cam isn't worth buying and technical and support problems with the original Ring doorbell have led me to downgrade the doorbell's original rating
Nerd Alert! You need a Christmas tree for your car!
The Christmas Car Tree is exactly what you might think: A Christmas Tree for your car,
Artificial intelligence, instrumental convergence, and photos of cats
Artificial intelligence, instrumental convergence, and photos of cats
Internet of Things Messaging, Part 1: Introducing MQTT
Internet of Things messaging with Arduinos and Raspberry Pi's requires low overhead protocols such as MQTT
Tools you need: W3 Schools color libraries and Bootstrap Studio for Web building
Color libraries and an integrated development environment for Bootstrap will make engineering your Web content a whole lot easier.
Alexa Voice Service, a singing fish, and the FABRIQ speaker
Lots of devices are getting Alexa Voice Service added; some you'd expect, such as the FABRIQ speaker, others, such as a hacked Big Mouth Billy Bass, not so much.
Putting Alexa on a Raspberry Pi
Amazon's Alexa Voice Service can be implemented on a Raspberry Pi and now, with support for "wake word" engines, you can build your own Echo-like system ... a PiCho? A PEcho?
It's time to rein in social media services
It's time to rein in social media services. For the good of our culture and our political process, social media has to be banned from interfering with what should be free speech.
Float Shelf: An elegant way for Apple users to clean up their desktops
Prism's Float Shelf is a simple, elegant add-on for your iMac or Apple Display
dweet.io: A simple, effective messaging service for the Internet of Things
dweet.io requires a minimum of fuss to setup and run which means that developing a messaging infrastructure for IoT systems is quick, cheap, and easy
Freeboard, web dashboards made easy
If you've been looking for a simple, low cost web dashboard for your Internet of Things, Web app, or network monitoring, Freeboard is a great solution
What's in a Raspberry Pi name? How to rename your RPi under Raspbian
How to rename your RPi under Raspbian
Using the Raspberry Pi to thwart the creepy clown menace
Using a Raspberry Pi, computer vision, and a neural network to thwart the creepy clown menace
Building a Raspberry Pi-powered Barkometer, Part 4
Building a Raspberry Pi-powered Barkometer, Part 4. In the last part of this series, we started recording sound and saving it in files; now we need to get those samples off the RPi so we can analyze them.
LXLE: A Linux distro to give new life to old hardware
LXLE: A fast, stripped down Linux distro designed to give new life to old hardware.
