Blogs

The MXChip board has 2 serial ports - one using the USB which is great for debugging, and one you can use to stream data from third party modules. This article shows you how! TL;DR - connect the TXD on the module to 1 on the MXChip, RXD to 2, then create a new Serial using UARTClass Serial1(UART_1); …

I’ve been playing a lot with the Azure Custom Vision Service - a great service to build image classification and object detection models with just a few images. To make it easier to test my models, I wanted to build a mobile app that connects to a custom vision project and uses that to …

Learn how to build a live captioner using Python and the Azure Cognitive Services

Learn how to launch Try .NET from VS Code using the debug menu instead of the terminal.

Try .NET is a new thing to come from the .NET teams that allows you to, well, try .NET. In a browser. You can think of it as a way to create interactive .NET documentation using .NET Core. What is Try .NET The experience or writing code in a browser itself isn’t new, developers have been able …

Learn how to connect a PyCom board to Azure IoT Hub

Want to use VS Code on a Raspberry Pi to code in Python?

Here’s how to do it.

Learn how Jim used Azure Media Services to fix his dumb mistakes when recording video!

I’ve been playing with a Raspberry Pi for a while, and I’m getting fed up with changing the input to my monitor and using a second keyboard/mouse (yeah, yeah, 1st World Problem I know). I decided to set up a remote screen share so I can share the screen. This means I can use the same …

Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms need no introduction. I’m sure by now you are well aware of these technologies and have seen many examples of building cross-platform mobile apps using C#. If not, I can highly recommend my book Xamarin in Action which if you follow this link and use code …

Learn how to build an internet connected fan using the MXChip Azure IoT dev kit and Azure IoT Hub

A discussion came up at work the other day on flying long-haul with very young children (toddler age), so I though it would be good to share the tips that I shared with the discussion. My daughter is 6 and has been on over 40 flights, including a lot of long haul as a toddler so I’ve managed …