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Playing with Raspberry Pi and Python: Traffic lights, Part 2
In a previous post in this series, we looked at writing Python code to control a set of Low Voltage Labs Traffic Light LEDs for the Raspberry Pi. If you haven’t read that article yet,...
In Raspberry Pi, Technology, IoT, Python, Coding,
Playing with Raspberry Pi and Python: Traffic lights
I’ve recently been doing some simple Python programming with the Raspberry Pi and a set of traffic light LEDs that connect to it. In this post I’ll look at setting up a Pi to drive th...
In Raspberry Pi, Technology, IoT, Python, Coding,
Promoting New Blog Entries with AWS Lambda and Slack
At my former employer Modus Create, we were avid users of Slack as a team collaboration tool and had been working on ways to use it more as we go about our daily business. We also mai...
In AWS, Serverless, Slack, JavaScript, DevOps, Coding,
Writing a Cordova Plugin in Swift 3 for iOS
Since the App Store first opened in 2008, developers wishing to build iOS apps have been required to learn Objective-C. This includes those choosing the hybrid model with Apache Cordo...
In JavaScript, Cordova, iOS, Swift, Coding,
Placing Markers Inside Google Maps
While working with Google Maps recently, our team needed to be able to drop map markers inside various different types of shapes drawn on the map. This is simple for circles and recta...
In Google Maps, JavaScript, Front End, Coding,
Creating an Interactive Voice Experience with Amazon Alexa
Introduced in 2015, Amazon Echo is a wireless speaker and microphone device that allows users to interact with online services by voice. Alexa is the name of the speech service that p...
In AWS, Serverless, IoT, Alexa, Python, Coding,
Biting into TACO, Microsoft's Enhanced Cordova CLI
Tools to streamline developer workflow when building Apache Cordova hybrid apps have been improving steadily since the introduction of the Cordova Command Line Interface (CLI) a few y...
In JavaScript, Microsoft, Cordova,
Cross Platform Cordova App Development with Merges
A major benefit of using Apache Cordova to build apps is that it provides a “write once, run many” solution to reusing application logic and design across the mobile platforms that it...
In JavaScript, Cordova, DevOps, Android, iOS, Coding,
Writing a Cordova Plugin in Swift for iOS
Since the App Store first opened in 2008, developers wishing to build iOS apps have been required to learn Objective-C. This includes those choosing the hybrid model with Apache Cordo...
In JavaScript, Cordova, iOS, Swift, Coding,
Supporting the Browser Platform in a Cordova Plugin
When building a Cordova hybrid app, the most common use case for adding or developing plugins is to access native device functionality not normally available to the JavaScript runtime...
In JavaScript, Cordova, Coding,
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