During a cleanup over the weekend I found a Raspberry Pi that wasn’t doing anything. I figured now that PowerShell Core had got to version 6.2.1 I should power it up and have a play around with maybe some sensors and outputs using PowerShell IoT.… keep reading
CIRCUITPY Volume not visible for an Adafruit Circuit Playground Express on Windows 10 1803
I’ve just returned from the US and whilst there I picked myself up an Adafruit Circuit Playground Express. I plugged it into my computer and by all reports it should just appear as a removable drive on Windows 10. Alas that didn’t happen for me.… keep reading
Update your Azure Sphere OS to 18.11 before Jan 15 2019
Update your Azure Sphere OS from 4.2.1 to 18.11 before January 15, 2019
Azure Sphere development kits became available in September of 2018. I had pre-ordered one and received it very quickly from Seeed Studio. I even wrote up my first impressions of it here.… keep reading
Azure Sphere – Initial Setup, Configuration and First Impressions
In April this year, Microsoft announced Azure Sphere. This was the same week as I’d be preparing for a presentation I was giving on Azure IoT at the Sydney location for the Global Azure Bootcamp. When pre-orders became available from Seeed Studio I naturally signed up as I’ve previously bought many IoT related pieces of hardware from Seeed Studio.… keep reading
Using Azure Cognitive Services to Empower the IT Service Desk
Tonight (29 August 2018) I presented the following presentation on using Azure Cognitive Services to Empower the IT Service/build Business Applications to the Sydney Azure User Group.
I walked through how to leverage the following Azure Cognitive API Services;
- Speech to Text
- Text to Speech
- Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
- Text Language Translation
For each I show a working example and demo.… keep reading
A Voice Assistant for Microsoft Identity Manager
This is the third and final post in my series around using your voice to query/search Microsoft Identity Manager or as I’m now calling it, the Voice Assistant for Microsoft Identity Manager.
The two previous posts in this series detail some of my steps and processes in developing and fleshing out this Voice Assistant for Microsoft Identity Manager concept.… keep reading
Using your Voice to Search Microsoft Identity Manager – Part 2
Introduction
Last month I wrote this post that detailed using your voice to search/query Microsoft Identity Manager. That post demonstrated a working solution (GitHub repository coming next month) but was still incomplete if it was to be used in production within an Enterprise.… keep reading
Sending Events from IoT Devices to Azure IoT Hub using HTTPS and REST
Overview
Different IoT Devices have different capabilities. Whether it is a Micro-controller or Single Board Computer your options will vary. In this post I detailed using MQTT to send messages from an IoT Device to an Azure IoT Hub as well as using the AzureIoT PowerShell Module.… keep reading
Exporting IoT Device Information from Azure IoT Hub(s) using PowerShell
Introduction
I have a number of Azure IoT Hubs each with a number of devices configured on them. I wanted to export the details for each IoT Device. This can’t be done via the Azure Portal (May 2018) so I looked to leverage the Azure.IoTHub… keep reading
Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 – Creating the Internet of YOUR Things
Today is the 6th Global Azure Bootcamp and I presented at the Sydney Microsoft Office on the Creating the Internet of YOUR Things.
In my session I gave an overview on where IoT is going and some of the amazing things we can look forward to (maybe).… keep reading