El Bruno

#Coding4Fun – RaspberryPi LED Christmas Tree 🎄 sync with Microsoft Teams (2/N) Azure AD, 🦒 and Apps

Hi ! Back in the Microsoft Lync days, we had access to an SDK that allowed us to interact with the Messaging client in a local mode. As of today, there is not similar SDK to interact with Microsoft Teams. So, if I want to know the status of an user in Microsoft Teams, we — read more

Dec 18, 2020
#Coding4Fun – #RaspberryPi LED Christmas Tree 🎄 sync with #MicrosoftTeams (1/N) Why? Why not !

Hi ! So I was preparing boxes with gadgets I have for our next house move, and I realized that I had a super cool Led based Christmas Tree, that can be used with a Raspberry Pi. The device can be programmed with Python, so I decided to go in my notes and I found — read more

Dec 17, 2020
#Windows10 – Deckboard deck, a super useful tool to run macros, OBS 🎦 integration and more. Bonus: build your own deck!

Hi ! I’m keeping myself away from buying new stuff during these days. Stream Deck (see references) is one of those devices that have been in my shopping list for a long time, as far as I understand is super useful and also adds tons of options to our work-from-home new life. Right now, the — read more

Dec 16, 2020
Building Autonomous Systems with Microsoft AI

Originally posted on Ivana Tilca: Nowadays Artificial intelligence and machine learning offer unique opportunities and challenges for automating complex industrial systems. And a new paradigm is arriving to help us accomplish that, I am talking about “Machine teaching”. MT helps us to build ML systems, by moving the focus away from algorithms and onto successful… — read more

Dec 15, 2020
¿Cómo colaborar con el Xamarin Community Toolkit?

Originally posted on Javier Suárez | Blog: Contribuir en el Xamarin Community Toolkit Una de los puntos a favor de Xamarin es su increíble?comunidad. Una comunidad activa haciendo constantemente actividades (eventos online, eventos presenciales, etc.) y creando nuevo contenido (artículos, ejemplos, plugins, etc.). Con el paso del tiempo es fantástico ver más y más plugins… — read more

Dec 14, 2020
#OpenCV – Open a video file 🎥 and save each frame as a PNG 🖼 file to a folder 📂#Net5

Hi ! A couple of days ago I wrote this post, and made the sample with Python. So today, same scenario, however with C# 9 and Net5. This is a non-usual scenario, however I’m on a point where I need to extract all the frames from a video file. The reason: some of these frames — read more

Dec 14, 2020
#Podcast – NTN 74 – #Xamarin, #Apple M1, Lidar en iPhone 12, Cloud y mucho más !

Buenas! Contar con Javier y Yeray siempre es un placer, y también una caja de sorpresas. El tema principal era Xamarin, y en el camino empezamos con: El Lidar del nuevo Iphone 12 Entornos de desarrollo para MacOS El nuevo Apple M1, redimiento y benchmarks; desde el punto de vista de un programador Y la — read more

Dec 13, 2020
#OpenCV – Open a video file 🎥 and save each frame as a PNG 🖼 file to a folder 📂#Python

Hi ! This is a non-usual scenario, however I’m on a point where I need to extract all the frames from a video file. The reason: some of these frames will be used to train a Machine Learning model. There are tools that can do this, however it’s a nice moment to do some OpenCV — read more

Dec 11, 2020
How to Reset Ubuntu Password in Windows WSL

Originally posted on Roy Kim on Azure and AI: Background You have a Windows 10 environment with WSL installed and are using a Ubuntu distribution. You forgot the password that was setup when you first setup Ubuntu. You need the password when you install software such as when doing apt install <software>. So here’s how:… — read more

Dec 9, 2020
#dotnet – Display a video file🎥 in Winform using #OpenCV and #net5

Hi ! Super short post today, however is the base of the next series of posts around OpenCV and .Net 5. I already wrote on how to work with a webcam, and now it’s time to share a simple piece of code to show How to open and process a video frame by frame I’ve — read more

Dec 8, 2020
#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