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#Event – TechDay Conf, virtual sessions in English and French #techdayconf #techdayconf2020
Hi ! I will participate this Saturday on a full day of technical sessions around technologies like Machine Learning, Azure, Entity Framework, .Net Core and more! The agenda is amazing, take a look: Sessions in French 10h β 10h20: Denis Voituron – Evitez Entity Framework. Faites du Mappage Relationnel Objets 10h20 β 10h40: Charles-Henri Sauget β read more
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#RaspberryPi – 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now only $35
Hi ! After some windy vacations, I’m still behind on my drone posts. However, this is an amazing news: TL;DR: itβs our eighth birthday, and falling RAM prices have allowed us to cut the price of the 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 to $35. You can buy one here. Official Raspberry Pi Blog, https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-price-raspberry-pi-4-2gb/ So great β read more
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#Coding4Fun β How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (9/N)
Hi! Let’s take some Frames Per Second measurements on the UDP and OpenCV connection. It seems that working with simple movements, the values moves between 30 and 60 FPS. Just added a couple of lines in the main While, to calculate the FPS. As a final note, just need to mention that I make some β read more
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#Coding4Fun β How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (8/N)
Hi! Now that I started to understand how UDP works, I also did my research to find which are the best options to access an UDP video feed. Lucky for me, there are plenty of resources about doing this task using my old friend OpenCV. Most of the OpenCV documentation is written in C++. However β read more
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#Event β Let’s rock some #AI and #ComputerVision at @devdotnext #devdotnext2020
Hi! In a couple of weeks, Iβll be visiting one of the biggest events in Broomfield, Colorado: @devdotnext. DevDotNext DevDotNext hosts 150+ 75-minutes Presentations, 4 Keynotes/Panels, and 11 All-day Pre-Conference Workshops. The schedule is available here https://www.devdotnext.com/schedule with some of this amazing topics: Languages Design and Architecture Cloud Server-Side Frontend DevOps Microservices Machine Learning Testing β read more
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#Coding4Fun β How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (7/N)
Hi! No code today. Mostly because I spend a decent amount of time trying to understand how the DJI Trello camera feed works. In order to access the camera feed remotely we need to perform 2 steps. First we need to send the command “command” to the drone, and then the command “streamon” to enable β read more
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#Coding4Fun β How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (6/N)
Hi! Today is code time also! And a continuation from my previous sample. Yesterday I show how to read a static value: the battery. And, when you work with a device like a drone there are other important values to analyze in order to send commands to the drone. Like altitude, position, time of flight β read more
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#Personal – The amazing moment when you realize that you are helping people ! #MVPBuzz
Hi! Being part of communities is awesome, and sometimes you get some feedback that really makes your day. Last week, I saw in the LinkedIn updates, that one of my LinkedIn contacts get a new Job in the VR/AR space. Note: Do you know that VR/AR is on the most hot job around today. Read β read more
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#Coding4Fun β How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (5/N)
Hi! Today is code time! In my previous post I share some code to send commands to the drone. Today I’ll show how to read the information from the drone. Before I start, someone asked if my kids are having fun with the drone. A image will be enough to answer this. Reading drone information β read more
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#Coding4Fun β How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (4/N)
Hi! The DJI Drone is a great device, you can have a lot of fun and also learn a lot. However, because the main way to interact with the device is via WIFI and UDP, you need to connect to the device WIFI. And, connecting and disconnecting to the is some times not a very β read more
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#Coding4Fun β How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (3/N)
Hi! Today I’ll write the equivalent of a Hello World in the drone ecosystem. This is a very complex app which: take off the drone wait a couple of seconds lands the drone I’ve followed the Python code sample from the SDK and the final code is very complex (see below). And it deserves some β read more
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#RaspberryPi – New Raspbian image for 2020-Feb-05
Hi! I remember last time I download and updated my Raspberry Pi with the latest Raspbian image, because it was the week before the Caribbean Developers Conference, and I deal with a couple of unexpected issues with the new version. After the Regional Innovation Summit in Seattle, one of the draft posts that I have β read more
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#Coding4Fun β How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (2/N)
Hi! I my previous posts I shared some links about the DJI Tello drone. One of them is the SDK 1.3.0.0. In this document we can find the main commands and descriptions of the specifics commands to use to communicate with the drone. The document also links a Python sample file with the following code: β read more
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#Coding4Fun – How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (1/N)
Hi ! I’ll start to write a couple of posts about controlling a drone using Python. This all started at the end of 2019 when my friend Daniel (@danielcauser) told me that he was playing around with the DJI Tello Drone (see references). This drone is a small quadcopter that features a Vision Positioning System β read more
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#RaspberryPi – Install Virtual Environments
Hi! Virtual Environments are a great way to isolate our dev tests, and after been using this in Windows also, work with them in the Raspberry Pi makes a lot of sense. I’ll leave here the necessary steps to do this, however the full credit is based on some posts from Adrian Rosebrock and his β read more
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#RaspberryPi – Performance differences in #FaceRecognition using #OpenVino (code with @code!)
Hi ! I’ve been looking to use the amazing Intel Neural Stick 2 for a while, and one of the 1st ideas that I have was to check how fast my Raspberry Pi 4 can run using this device. The Intel team released a nice step by step process installation for Raspberry Pi. And it β read more
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#RaspberryPi – How to solve the SSH warning: WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!
Hi ! When you test and play around with your Raspberry Pi, you may need to format again your Raspbian SD Card, and then start everything from scratch. This is a trivial process, and is usual to setup the device to connect automatically to a Wifi network and also enable SSH (I wrote about this, β read more
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#RaspberryPi β How to install #docker (Updated 2020-01-24)
Hi I wrote a couple of times about this, however this is the updated version on how to install docker in a Raspberry Pi. Updated to Jan 24 2020. The information is available from the Official Docker Documentation And then, a simple check for the docker version with the command And that’s it ! Docker β read more
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#RaspberryPi β Install OpenCV
Hi! After some posts about how to setup a Raspberry Pi, today I’ll share the steps I follow to install OpenCV. Disclaimer: if you are looking for a detailed step by step on how to install or even build OpenCV in a Raspberry Pi, I strongly recommend to read the post “Install OpenCV on Raspberry β read more
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#Event β Resources used during Getting started with #MachineLearning.net with @TheDataGeeks
Hi! It was a placer to share some amazing and early time with the Data Platform Geeks in a webinar about Machine Learning.Net. Slides Source Code https://github.com/elbruno/events/tree/master/2020%2001%2021%20DPG%20MLNet Resources Get started at http://dot.net/ml Try the samples at http://aka.ms/mlnetsamples Read the docs at http://aka.ms/mlnetdocs Request features or contribute at http://aka.ms/mlnet Get help for going into production https://aka.ms/mlnetprod β read more