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In this episode, Fedja Adam joins us to talk about Duality. Duality is an open-source modular 2D game engine that provides its own visual editor. It’s plugin based and written entirely in C#, making it highly extensible. To start, we will loo… Continue reading Getting Started with Duality – Part 1 | .GAME
The official start of summer is just days away, but no one is slacking around here. This week, we saw how Microsoft researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to master what was thought to be the un-masterable “Ms. Pac-Man,” an addictive 1980s video game. We met the new Xbox One X, a console system designed to play the best games of the past, present and future. And we hung out at … Read more »
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Think you need a physical device to get started with Azure IoT development?
Nope!
Here is a cool tutorial on how you can use a web based Raspberry Pi online simulator to connect to the Azure IoT Hub…
In this tutorial, you begin by learning the basics of working with Raspberry Pi online simulator. You then learn how to seamlessly connect the Pi simulator to the cloud by using Azure IoT Hub.
What you do
- Learn the basics of Raspberry Pi online simulator.
- Create an IoT hub.
- Register a device for Pi in your IoT hub.
- Run a sample application on Pi to send simulated sensor data to your IoT hub.+
Connect simulated Raspberry Pi to an IoT hub that you create. Then you run a sample application with the simulator to generate sensor data. Finally, you send the sensor data to your IoT hub.+
What you learn
- How to create an Azure IoT hub and get your new device connection string.
- How to work with Raspberry Pi online simulator.
- How to send sensor data to your IoT hub.+
Overview of Raspberry Pi web simulator
Create an IoT hub
In the Azure portal, click New > Internet of Things > IoT Hub.
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Register a device in the IoT hub for the your device
- In the Azure portal, open your IoT hub.
- Click Device Explorer.
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Run a sample application on Pi web simulator
In coding area, make sure you are working on the default sample application. Replace the placeholder in Line 15 with the Azure IoT hub device connection string.
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Next steps
You’ve run a sample application to collect sensor data and send it to your IoT hub.+
To continue getting started with IoT Hub and to explore other IoT scenarios, see:
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Jason Anderson joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the newest offering of the Azure Database family – Azure Database for MySQL. With built-in high availability, scalability, and flexible pricing options, there’s no excuse to be running MySQL in a VM anymore.
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Far Cry fans are accustomed to having their virtual passports stamped in exotic locales, from the original game’s gorgeous South Pacific setting to the fourth installment’s breathtaking Himalayan mountains. Far Cry 5, however, is bringing the beauty stateside, unleashing players in a massive sandbox beneath the stunning big sky of fictional Hope County, Montana. We recently got some hands-on time in this modern frontier, where we were tasked with liberating a part of the map dubbed Falls End. The tiny, quaint town—complete with general store, gas station, auto shop, and local watering hole—boasted a population of 38, the majority of… Continue reading E3 2017: Taking Back an Occupied Town with Three of Far Cry 5’s Cult-Crushing Companions
After 15 years working in startups across a variety of product roles, Cindy Alvarez is now a principal design researcher in the Cloud & Enterprise division at Microsoft. She’s the author of Lean Customer Development: Build Products Your Customers W… Continue reading Interview with Cindy Alvarez, Author and Design Researcher at Microsoft | GALs
Tobias and Slava are back in the studio to showcase the work they have been doing on the TPC-H benchmarking. As normal, no slides, all demo, and Slava and Tobias spend nearly 30 minutes show us how they achieved respectable TPC-H benchmark performance … Continue reading TPC-H Benchmarking with SQL Server on Linux | Data Exposed
