El Bruno

#RaspberryPi – New OS allows #MicrosoftTeams in the device ! And a simple but amazing config for the onboard LED

Hi ! We have a new Raspberry Pi OS release – December 2020 (see references) and it adds tons of new features. The latest version upgrades Chromium, to a version that allow us to to: join teams calls ! I’m starting to think on have a custom Teams Kiosk just to join meetings, without using — read more

Dec 7, 2020
#Podcast – NTN 73 – #LicorcaConf, eventos Gallegos de tecnología para todo el mundo !

Buenas! Todo empezó cuando al terminar de correr veo que #LicorcaConf era trending topic en España. Doy un par de likes en Twitter y 10 minutos después estoy en una sala virtual pasando un rato genial con los asistentes del evento. Obviamente, esto dio pie para que un par de días después nos juntáramos nuevamente — read more

Dec 6, 2020
Use Power Automate to get a MS Teams SharePoint URL

Originally posted on Norm Young: This post is inspired by a question I received on LinkedIn on how to copy files to a project based Teams team using Power Automate at the time of provisioning. This Flow can provide one of the building blocks for that larger solution. This Flow requires a Graph API connection.… — read more

Dec 5, 2020
#PowerPlatform – HowTo: Test Power Automate Flow HTTP using Postman

Hi ! It’s been a while since I wrote about Power Flow Automate, and this is a good memory reminder for myself, I always spend +30 minutes figuring out how to Test a Power Automate Flow, triggered when a HTTP request is received using Postman. So, simple scenario with a Flow triggered when a HTTP — read more

Dec 2, 2020
#Event – Global AI Bootcamp Toronto on Dec 12 🤖🤖🤖 @GlobAICommunity

Hi ! This started to be my annual tradition: Global AI Bootcamp is the last event of the year! And this year, we had a set of amazing session planned with the following topics: Introduction to AI and Cognitive Services for Developers and Information Workers Understanding Autonomous systems, Machine Teaching and Bonsai Platform Knowledge Mining — read more

Dec 1, 2020
#Event – Resources used during the session “Hack a drone, hack the camera and use AI” at the Global AI Tour, Lahore Pakistan, 2020

Hi ! I had a great time early in the day with my Microsoft Student Partners from Lahore Pakistan, for the Global AI Tour. As usual, time for slides and code: Slides Code https://github.com/elbruno/events/tree/main/2020%2011%2030%20Global%20AI%20Tour%20Pakistan Resources DJI Tello Drone, https://www.amazon.com/Tello-CP-PT-00000252-01-Quadcopter-Drone/dp/B07BDHJJTH Ryze Tello SDK, https://www.ryzerobotics.com/tello Viola Jones, Object Detection Framework, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola%E2%80%93Jones_object_detection_framework Cognitive Services Custom Vision, https://customvision.ai — read more

Nov 30, 2020
#Podcast – NTN 72 – Sobre escenarios #MultiCloud, Centros de Excelencia en #Cloud y mucho más.

Buenas! Hoy nos acompaña Richard, en uno de los episodios en los que más notas he tomado. La cantidad de información y experiencias que ha compartido han sido geniales. Pido perdón por adelantado, ya que los primeros 6 o 7 minutos tenemos algunos problemas de sonido. Lo bueno es que ya sabemos cómo balancear la — read more

Nov 29, 2020
Use MS Lists and Power Automate to provision Private Channels in Teams

Originally posted on Norm Young: In my previous blog post I showed how easy it is to Use Microsoft Lists and Power Automate to provision Microsoft?Teams. In this blog post I will show how to extend the previous solution to include the creation of a Microsoft Teams Private Channel. At the time of writing there… — read more

Nov 28, 2020
#dotnet – Packaging my WinForm #OpenCV and #net5 app in a one-self contained file (Thanks @shanselman!)

Hi ! A couple of days ago, Scott Hanselman posted about a super cool feature (see references): … you can make a single EXE that will run on any Windows Machine in two commands How to make a WinForms app with .NET 5 entirely from the command line and publish as one self-contained file and — read more

Nov 27, 2020
#dotnet – Pose detection from the 🎦 camera feed using #OpenCV and #net5. Home-made #kinect!

Hi ! LearnOpenCV is an amazing resource to learn about OpenCV. And, it has lot of scenarios of real life problem solved with OpenCV. Most of the samples are in C++ or Python, so I decided to pick one related to pose estimation, and using .Net 5 in a Winforms App, build something like this: — read more

Nov 26, 2020
#dotnet – GoogleNet detection from the 🎦 camera feed using #OpenCV and #net5. Bonus: C++ to C# time!

Hi ! So I was browsing in the OpenCV documentation and I find a nice sample that uses opencv_dnn module for image classification by using GoogLeNet trained network from Caffe model zoo. So I give it a try, and get a decent .Net 5 Winforms App running at ~30 FPS. The model was trained with — read more

Nov 25, 2020
#dotnet – Age and Gender estimation from the 🎦 camera feed using #OpenCV and #net5

Hi ! Face detected, so next step is to use some prebuild models to perform additional actions: like estimate the Age of a face, and also the Gender. In order to do this, I downloaded a couple of models from here. Disclaimer: these models are just sample models, do not use them in production. These — read more

Nov 24, 2020
Understanding Autonomous systems, Machine Teaching and Bonsai Platform

Originally posted on Ivana Tilca: Throughout history, managing the factory environment during a pandemic has been a difficult task. Today, COVID-19 has forced industries worldwide into an era of adoption. In what seems like an instant, entire business lines have adopted remote operating tools, digital collaboration resources, and virtual working environments. This normalization of next-generation… — read more

Nov 22, 2020
#Podcast – NTN 71 – Una historia de ERPs, Dynamics 365, Dynamics AX, Finance and Operations y un podcast amigo.

Buenas! Siempre es un placer pasar un rato con otros podcasters, y en este caso, tengo que agradecer que como bonus he aprendido mucho sobre otras áreas de Dynamics 365: Dynamics AX y el clásico X++. Y el tema es interesante, porque por lo general las personas que trabajar en el antes conocido como Axapta, — read more

Nov 21, 2020
QnA Maker managed: now in public preview

Originally posted on Ivana Tilca: If you try to create a QnA Maker today, you will notice the following option. “Managed (preview)”. But what is this about? What’s new or which new features are introduced: Deep learnt ranker with enhanced relevance of results across all supported languages, based on Turing multilingual language model (T-ULRv2). Computation… — read more

Nov 20, 2020
#dotnet – Detecting Faces, DNN vs Haar Cascades from the 🎦 camera feed using #OpenCV and #net5

Hi ! In one session around computer vision, someone ask the question about which approach is better Haar Cascades or DNN? And the answer can be show using the video below As you can see Haar Cascades works great for faces looking directly to the camera, with good lights and in optimal conditions. However, once — read more

Nov 19, 2020
#Event – Resources used during the session “Getting started with Machine Learning.Net and AutoML” at the MVP Days Israel 2020

Hi ! I had a great time early in the day (04:00AM!) with the MVP Days Israel team talking about how to start with Machine Learning .Net. As usual, time for slides and code: Slides Code https://github.com/elbruno/events/tree/main/20201119%20MVP%20Day%20Israel%20MLNet Resources DotNet Machine Learning.Net GitHub DotNet Machine Learning GitHub DotNet Machine Learning Samples Recording Coming soon ! — read more

Nov 19, 2020
#dotnet – Detecting Faces using DNN from the 🎦 camera feed in a WinForm using #OpenCV and #net5

Hi ! Let’s do some face detection using a DNN model (See references). As yesterday, I won’t write about details, there are almost 20 years of online documentation available. And, IMHO opinion code is much more useful that long writing, so let’s go there. 1st load the Caffe model and the config file. And, once — read more

Nov 18, 2020
#dotnet – Detecting Faces using Cascades from the 🎦 camera feed in a WinForm using #OpenCV and #net5

Hi ! Let’s do some face detection using one of the most popular methods: Haar Casacades (See references). I won’t write about Cascades, there are almost 20 years of online documentation available. And, IMHO opinion code is much more useful that long writing, so let’s go there. 1st load the cascade definition file. And, once — read more

Nov 17, 2020
#dotnet – Display the 🎦 camera feed in a WinForm using #OpenCV and #net5

Hi ! Back on the Windows Forms days, cameras were tricky. We didn’t have a lot of libraries to work, and they usually require some extra work to handle unexpected errors. With Net 5 and OpenCVSharp, we can create a simple WebCam viewer like this one. Let’s start with a [Take a Photo] Windows Form — read more

Nov 16, 2020