A motion-activated spider for Halloween with an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi

Every year my family hangs a large decorative spider over our doorway for Halloween. This year I decided to make it flash red LED eyes and play a random assortment of spooky sounds (including, but not limited to, bats, chains and the Vincent Price laugh from "Thriller") when »

Dynamics CRM and the Internet of Things - part 5

This is the fifth and final post in a five-part series on how I integrated a Raspberry Pi with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to recognize contacts using automobile license plates. Although the code samples are focused on license plate recognition, the solution architecture I used is applicable to any Dynamics CRM »

Dynamics CRM and the Internet of Things - part 4

This is the fourth post in a five-part series on how I integrated a Raspberry Pi with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to recognize contacts using automobile license plates. Although the code samples are focused on license plate recognition, the solution architecture I used is applicable to any Dynamics CRM + Internet of »

Dynamics CRM and the Internet of Things - part 3

This is the third post in a five-part series on how I integrated a Raspberry Pi with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to recognize contacts using automobile license plates. Although the code samples are focused on license plate recognition, the solution architecture I used is applicable to any Dynamics CRM + Internet of »

Dynamics CRM and the Internet of Things - part 2

This is the second post in a five-part series on how I integrated a Raspberry Pi with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to recognize contacts using automobile license plates. As I mentioned in the first post of the series, the solution architecture I used is applicable to any Dynamics CRM + Internet of »