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Jukebox on Raspberry Pi with DotNet Core – Part 1
Estimated time for lesson: 2-3 Hours Have you ever wondered what all uses can a Raspberry pi be put into? Well let’s explore one such use case. In this series we are going to build a Music Jukebox using a Raspberry Pi, Simple Speakers, DotNet Core and Angular 6. The final product requirements can be…
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Software Engineers – Do they still exist?
In the past there had been a lot of ranting about the quality of code that Indian software engineers write and there were some claims that 95% of them are unfit for engineering roles. After that I have read a lot on the subject and seen a lot of videos about it, people expressing their…
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Building Lizzie – IV
Another post about Lizzie. I started off with a Raspberry Pi 3 to build a personal assistant for my car and I have come a long way both in terms of the concept and the functionality. Most importantly I have formalized the application flow and also extended the scope from one device to almost all…
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Is C# Getting More Functional?
Looking at the set of features introduced in C# 7, I am thinking – Is C# trying to follow the footsteps of Scala (a functional language that compiles into JVM bytecode)? To answer the question let’s look at the features that have been introduced. I got a chance to work with Scala while working at agoda (It was…
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OBD-II with Raspberry Pi3
I am writing this article in response to a question posted on my YouTube channel. Here I would be talking about communicating to an OBD-II device (ELM327 chip with Bluetooth) hooked into your car’s OBD-II port. The OS I am using is Windows 10 IoT core. This information is important because it makes a difference…
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Building Lizzie – III
As mentioned in previous article today I would be talking about OBD-II integration in Lizzie using a Bluetooth serial communication with an ELM327 adapter that fits on a OBD-II port in your car. OBD stands for On Board Diagnostics which is connected to the ECU (Engine Control Unit) and provides a ton of information (both…
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Building Lizzie – II
In the previous post I described my experiments around building an intelligent artificial personal assistant – Lizzie. The pseudo intelligent agents available today around us (Siri, Cortana or Google Next) are all great feats of engineering given the fact that they reside on small devices like mobile phones and are able to do powerful things…
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Building Lizzie – I
Recently I have been busy building a personal assistant that I would be fitting in my car. Currently I am in experimentation mode and I am experimenting with speech capabilities. I would start with a description of my journey so far. First let me show off a little bit with these videos that I created…
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Asp.Net Core – Open Source
In the recent times we have seen some steps taken by Microsoft which are really encouraging for the .Net community and Microsoft customers as a whole. They have taken some bold actions to change the restrictive image that we used to have for Microsoft, its platform and tools. Some of the brave actions which indicate…
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The Hanuman Within
श्री गुरु चरण सरोज रज़, निज मन मुकुरू सुधार… बरनौ रघुवर बिमल जसू जो दायक फल चार… बुद्धिहीन तनु ज़निके सुमीरों पवन कुमार… बल बुद्धि विद्या देउ मोहि हरहू कलेश विकार… There are moments when you feel trapped in your own fears and thoughts making you feel desperate to get out but without any clue…
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Mathematical Properties of people in your team!
Disclaimer: The ideas portrayed here are my personal opinions and if you don’t agree with anything please leave me a comment and I will take a note and try to revisit my thoughts. This week I am going to talk about a different subject, its about human behavior – my observations and a desire to see everything…