I wanted to do timelapse video of some plants growing in a pot on my window sill so I wrote Windows 10 IoT Core Universal Windows Platform (UWP) background task to capture images and store them to the local file system of a Raspberry Pi or DragonBoard 410C devices. The first version was pretty rough so for the next one I moved all the…
Let’s learn all the aspects of the most renowned web hosting service, and familiarise with it, thanks to a sample application. In the previous post, we let you know Git and in particular, we focused on explaining how to use it in order to archive a firmware project on your PC and to…
Let’s learn about the firmware management and versioning tool that is at the root of GitHub, and to be able to use it. In order to become a good programmer, it is not enough to know the most popular programming languages, to know how to write the corresponding code, to create more or less…
A Microsoft researchers team have built and open sourced a simulation tool to help people train autonomous cars, drones and robots learn how to avoid obstacles just like they would in the real world. It’s called the Aerial Informatics and Robotics Platform, or AirSim for short. Available for Linux and Windows, it lets you generate a random environment…
The team behind ReactOS, an open-source reimplementation of Windows, released a new version that brings improved hardware support and better filesystem support, among a variety of other changes. ReactOS is a free and open source implementation of the Windows NT architecture, which intends to provide support for existing applications and drivers, outside of the control…
Thanks to documentation for Audio Engine Core Test found on Microsoft’s MSDN portal, the company clearly lists Windows 10 for desktop, ARM. Also notable is the support for Windows 10 Mobile ARM64 and Windows 10 Mobile x86, the latter could be used to create an Intel powered smartphone that runs the company’s mobile operating system….
3DPrinterOS is an operating system available for 3D printing. The service allows users to manage, edit, fix, slice, share, and print objects from any web-enabled device, and since it was launched earlier this year, the OS has been used to take on more than 4,500 hours of printing through 1,300 printers in a total of…
Let’s experiment with the embedded version of Microsoft operating system, by installing it on Raspberry Pi, and by building our first applications. In our previous installment we could see some of the movements that are putting Microsoft in contact with the open source world, and we anticipated the release, by Microsoft, of a…
After the partnership between Microsoft and Arduino announced on Build 2015 conference, here are the latest updates on what the Windows 10 giant is releasing to support Arduino: You can now get the Windows Insider Preview of Windows 10 IoT core with the next four technology investments as part of our Arduino partnership: Windows 10…
Microsoft released recently the new version of its famous IDE, Visual Studio 2015. It is offered as a free online tool, based on a very active community, or you can purchase the standalone versions as usual. Here are the main features: Visual Studio 2015 is a rich, integrated development environment for creating stunning applications for…
We are excited to announce the public release of Windows 10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi 2 and the MinnowBoard Max. Visit the Windows IoT Dev Center to choose your target board, then walk through the steps to provision your board, acquire the tools, and get started Making. This release of Windows 10 IoT…
At its Build developer conference earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would soon release tools that would make it easier for iOS and Android developers to take their existing code and port their apps to Windows. The Android version of this, officially named Windows Bridge for Android, is now in private beta. The iOS version, however…
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