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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...
For a long time the Indian OpenStreetMap community and DataMeet Community was looking for an official external boundaries. Even-though the commercial counter parts had it, the community didn’t have access to it. That status has changed now. Now we have the official external boundaries of India by Survey of India out in public...
Table of Contents1 What is SDR?2 What is RTL SDR?3 Software3.1 GNU Radio3.2 PLSDR3.3 ShinySDR4 Footnotes I am an electronics and communication engineer by education 1. The most fascinating subjects during my engineering were Antenna theory and Fields & Waves. They were also very difficult and confusing. Mostly because it was just theory...
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...
For a while I have been using KDE Marble as my desktop map client. The project describes itself as “a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps”. It can do a lot but I use it for my day today work like bookmarking areas, creating KML files etc....
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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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