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Smart Speakers are becoming popular these days. I see Alexa or Google home everywhere, Voice is an interesting technology and I think it’s going to become very popular amongst younger and elderly community. Here in this tutorial we will create a simple Alexa Skill using OpenWhisk as our serverless platform and CouchDB as our database.
Table of Contents1 Install and setup2 Setup your flow3 API Access4 End Note Node-Red is IBM open source project for wiring things on internet. It was started by IBM’s Emerging Technology Services team and now is part of JS Foundation, For anyone who has been a fan of Yahoo Pipes the interface and...
Brunel defines a highly succinct and novel language that defines interactive data visualizations based on tabular data. Brunel is Visualization language. It’s a domain specific language. It has its own grammar. It feels familiar to anyone who thinks in data and want to visualize it. Brunel is also open source and works well...
Table of Contents1 Minetest2 Installation and Running3 Mod structure4 Your first mode5 Include and use your mod I am a big fan of Minecraft. I remember buying it in 2011 from Mojang for 15 euros. It’s one of the few games I bought. It’s also one of those games I visit once in...
Table of Contents1 Standards2 Unicode CLDR and ICU projects3 Transliteration4 How to type Accents and Symbols5 Footnotes Wikipedia says Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways. For Kannada we usually use Latin letters to represent1...
As you know I have been experimenting around Bluetooth. Until now it’s mostly on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) which I think is much easier to understand and implement[1 At the application level]. Last few weeks I have been exploring the Classic Bluetooth, specially Serial Port Profile (SPP). This is when I found out...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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