This post covers the steps to set-up a raspberry Pi for remote connections using remot3.it. I was looking for a way to connect to the Pi headlessly (no keyboard, mouse, and monitor attached) so that I could update WiFi settings depending on where the device is. This proved to be a simple and effective solution.… Continue reading Setting Up a Raspberry Pi for Remote Connections
So my latest IoT (Internet-of-Things) project has me doing some woodworking, and much to my surprise, the woodworking piece is much harder than setting up the Pi, programming Python scripts, and wiring up I/O. It just does not come naturally to me. Here’s what I’ve learned so far:
I have my first node.js/express app hosted on Heroku and found it quite easy to work with. One thing that initially tripped me up was how to run JavaScript on the client side. As you may know, node.js runs JavaScript on the server, with many advantages. But some scripts you need to run on the… Continue reading Getting the Client’s Local Time in Node.js
Today’s post concern’s itself with Derek Siver’s book “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur.” I recently finished this short read via an audiobook on Audible, which is pleasantly read by Derek himself. Overall one gets the feeling that the building of his business was a casual, almost accidental affair that… Continue reading Casual Company Building: Review of Derek Sivers’ “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”
Introduced in JavaScript standard ES8, async/await offers a new way to handle asynchronous function calls and depreciates callbacks, leading to more readable code. The below example demonstrates how async/await may be used with the ES6 Promise and Promise.all. Let’s say you have three actions you want to perform Of course you won’t actually know when… Continue reading JavaScript’s Async/Await
What you’ll need: SD Card Wireless keyboard and mouse Raspberry Pi 3B+ Power supply HDMI cable What to do: Format the SD Card using SD Memory Card Formatter available here Download NOOBS from here (the file is >1.5 GB so this will take some time) Extract NOOBS files from the .zip and copy them to… Continue reading First IoT Project with Raspberry Pi
‘Collective wisdom’ is put to good use to tackle three kinds of problems, and complexity is no bar: Cognition problems: such problems arise when we can only guess the answer – as e.g. about the contents of the jelly bean jar, or about the future. How do we get the guess right? Coordination problems: how… Continue reading Prediction Markets – Using Groups to Guess Right
