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#PowerPoint – Integrate your live camera π¦ feed in your slides
Hi ! Wow, I opened PowerPoint today to check my slides for a presentation later today and I find a new super cool feature that allow me to add a live camera feed into my slides. This is part of a set of new features for Office Insiders and it’s called: CAMEO. You can read β read more
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#OpenCV – Detect and blur faces π using haar cascades in Python π
Hi ! Quick post today: detect a face using haar cascades and blur the face area. Easy to implement, and also easy to read: Code below Important: Haar cascades are easy to implement and learn, however, not recommented as a good solution to detect faces. β read more
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#Windows11 – Microsoft Power Toys, π±οΈ Mouse Utilities rocks π€π€π€
Hi ! If you are working with Windows, the Microsoft Power Toys are kind of a #MustHave. And, the set of new mouse features, in the latest release improves a lot the experience while doing presentations, sharing screen, and more. We already know the press CTRL twice to locate your mouse, which is super useful β read more
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How #GitHubCoPilot π€ is helping in my daily work at Microsoft on March @MSFTReactor
Hi ! March is our Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning month. I decided to share a little about my experiences working with Visual Studio Code and CoPilot. That’s why on March I’ll share 5 different 30 minutes sessions, with my experiences working with Python C++ C# Markdown Using CoPilot to control a Roomba π€ ! β read more
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#AzureML – Sample π Python app using a WebCam to perform Image Analysis from an image classification AzureML HTTP REST Endpoint
Hi ! In my previous post I wrote How to create a custom dataset with images to be used on a Azure Machine Learning Designer project. How to use the custom data set and how to train an image classification model. How to publish the model to be used as a WebService / HTTP REST β read more
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#AzureML – Sample π Python app to consume a image classification AzureML HTTP REST Endpoint
Hi ! In my previous post I wrote How to create a custom dataset with images to be used on a Azure Machine Learning Designer project. How to use the custom data set and how to train an image classification model. How to publish the model to be used as a WebService / HTTP REST β read more
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#AzureML – Creating a HTTP Rest Endpoint to consume an AzureML Designer based on the DenseNet template π¨
Hi ! In my previous post I wrote about how to create a custom dataset with images to be used on a Azure Machine Learning Designer project. The second post was about how to use the custom data set and how to train the model. Today let’s publish the model to be used as a β read more
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#AzureML – Using a custom images πΌοΈ dataset on the AzureML Designer with the DenseNet template π¨
Hi ! In my previous post I wrote about how to create a custom dataset with images to be used on a Azure Machine Learning Designer project. Today I’ll share the steps to use it. Let’s start by creating a project based on the “Image Classification using DenseNet” template. Next step is to select the β read more
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#AzureML – How to create a dataset with images to be used on the AzureML Designer DenseNet samples
Hi ! I didn’t found this online, so I decided to write it down. How to create a dataset with images to be used on the Azure Machine Learning designer, when training a model using the DenseNet prefab and samples. Let’s start defining which Azure Storage Account we will use. I’ll use the default one. β read more
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#Python π- Working with Environment Variables and python-dotnenv
Hi ! The Microsoft Cloud Advocates team is great and, hey everyday I learn something new. A couple of days ago we were talking about working with Environment Variables and Virtual Environments. I wrote several times about working with Virtual Envs, like WindowsTerminal and Anaconda, start an Anaconda Virtual Environment How to List and Remove β read more
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#AzureFunctions β‘- Pip and TLS/SSL error on Debugging with #Python π
Hi! There is something wrong with my current development environment. I have an Azure Function with these dependencies: And I got this error when I press F5 / Run the project in local mode. By default, Azure Functions works with a Python virtual environment. This helps to isolate our current dev environment, and also to β read more
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#Event – January is #Serverless in Toronto @MSFTReactor
Hi ! January is a Serverless month in the Microsoft Reactor Toronto. During the full month we wil host these session, presented by amazing friends: Jan 11, Azure Custom Vision running on Azure functions. Recording English, Spanish (coming soon!) GitHub Materials Jan 18, Computer Vision using LOBE running on Azure functions Recording English, Spanish (coming β read more
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#reTerminal – Installing TensorFlow, @Code and recognizing πΏοΈπΊ using a Camera π€³
Hi ! Let’s start with some posts using reTerminal with a very simple scenario: Install TensorFlow and Code on reTerminal to run an object recognition app. The desired output is something similar to this one. Live demo in a tweet ! And letΒ΄s start with the base commands to install Visual Studio Code. Oficial VSCode β read more
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#Python π – Export Video Frames as Images from a video file π₯
Hi ! I can’t believe I didn’t write about this before. I usually do this, at least 2 times per month, and hey, now it’s on the blog for my future reference. Simple Scenario: Open a video file and export each frame as an image. Some notes: The sample uses OpenCV. I wrote a lot β read more
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#reTerminal – Installing OpenCV, and using a USB WebCam π€³
Hi ! Let’s start with some posts using reTerminal with a very simple scenario: Connect a Camera to the device and show the camera feed in reTerminal display The output is something similar to this one. And letΒ΄s start with the base code to run this, based on my previous posts on OpenCV (see references) β read more
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#Personal – Manything, turn your old phones π€³ into Security Cameras π¦
Hi ! Happy new year everyone. As usual, IΒ΄ll write this down so I can remember about this in the future. Context A couple of days ago, minutes before we were leaving our house for a family trip, I found the need to setup a security camera in a weird location of my house. I β read more
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#RaspberryPi β 1st setup no monitor πΊ: Wifi πΆ auto connect, SSH, rename, update, docker π³ and more! Update 2021-Dec-26
Content Create SD card using Raspberry Pi Imager Configure Wireless connection (if needed) Enable SSH (if needed) Find the IP address in your network Access via SSH Change Password (if needed) Rename the device (if needed) Expand FileSystem Update the device Install Docker Setup SSH password-less access to the Raspberry Pi Setup password-less access to β read more
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#VisualStudioCode – Create and use Code Snippets ποΈ in @code, create custom snippets just for a workspace, and for multi folder solutions
Hi ! Update: I wrote this post last year for my Python series. This is an update focused on scenarios also working with C++ and Platform IO. Code Snippets are super useful, and create your custom Code Snippets is super easy in Visual Studio Code. The official Documentation (see references) explains how to create snippets, β read more
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#Event – Resources used during “Using #AzureIoT to feed my squirrels πΏοΈ” #WioTerminal @MSFTReactor
Hi ! Yesterday I hosted the session where I shared how I created a Squirrel Feedr πΏοΈπΏοΈπΏοΈ using a Wio Terminal, and how I connected the device to Azure IoT. As usual, now it’s time to share resources used for the session Resources Arduino library for Azure IoT Full Tutorial – IoT for Begginers Wio β read more
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#Arduino – Arduino library for Azure IoT βοΈ, and how I used to feed my πΏοΈπΏοΈπΏοΈ
Hi ! Here are some good news for Azure IoT and Arduino developers: we have a new library to work with Azure IoT in a simple way! The Azure IoT SDK for C library When you add this library to your Arduino IDE, youβre getting a fully tested set of APIs, documentation, and sample implementations β read more