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Manage a Parking Lot with Azure Sphere

This article was originally written in 2018 and there have been many updates to Azure Sphere between then and now so some changes may be required. I thought it would be useful to share this as-is (and the code) in case it was of use to others who wanted to take advantage of an ultrasonic […]

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Azure IoT DevKit – External Connectivity

Beyond the sensors built into the board the possibilities are endless when you consider attaching external devices. As I mentioned in my previous post, the DevKit has an edge connector with a number of input/output pins as well as power. You’ll need an “edge connector breakout” like this to make use of them. I found […]

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First Steps with Azure IoT DevKit

The Azure IoT DevKit is an Arduino compatible board which is ready to use in conjunction with Azure IoT Hub to build an end-to-end IoT system. Code running on the board is native C and you deploy to the board using Visual Studio Code over the included USB cable. Then your device uses WiFi to […]

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Self Installation of Hive

Installing the Hive hardware was straight-forward because my existing controller had a standard backplate and so I didn’t have to change any wiring. The trouble came when trying to setup an account because when you ring the number on the included voucher no-one seems to understand the process for self-installed units. After I eventually got […]