Development Candy: My list of goodies.

A while ago, I wrote a blog post about my most beloved ingredients I use in my electronics projects. Today I share an other list of daily used ingredients: my most used development environments.

Parsing your IoT

Last week, I started experimenting with Parse.com. Just like Azure, Parse is an online platform which can be used for hosting cloud applications including data storage. It offers a lot of powerful tools which will make IoT development much more fun, but has one major pitfall … until today!

Our Office OPIrator

While most of the stuff I built, has no particular use, once in a while I built something that solves a real issue. In this case, it solves the lack of a phone operator at Xonay Media Headquarters.

A Warm Christmas

This Christmas, my super sweet Santa surprised me with the perfect gift: a Nest Thermostat. Not only is the Nest a beautiful piece of fine designed engineering work, it also allows people like you and me to make it even more powerful by using its extensive API. Today was the perfect day to take a small glimpse at this piece of developers candy.

Annoying Dishwasher:

The from XBee to Mirror

So, The Annoying Dishwasher™ finally lost it’s vocal cords of hell and got connected an XBee using some optocouplers. It is time to jump into geek mode (as if we weren’t there yet …), and start the software part.

Installing Node.js on a Raspberry Pi

In a lot of my Raspberry Pi projects I’m using Node.js as the development platform. Installing Node.js on a Rasberry Pi used to be a real pain in the ass. Luckily the open source community made it a bit simpeler.