I've taken a look at using node.js and Python to create a chat bot in the past but never really progressed the idea, mainly because my website doesn't currently need a chat bot. However after completing my recent project around text sentiment using Azure cognitive services I thought I would take another look at a … Continue reading Creating An Azure Q&A / FAQ Chat Bot
For this part of the Raspberry Pi IoT project I am going to be using Microsoft Azure, if you want to follow along please sign up for a Microsoft Azure account. Log in to https://portal.azure.com/ with your Microsoft Azure account. For me it took a few minutes and a few log offs/ons for my free … Continue reading Azure IoT Hub – Raspberry Pi IoT Project
This evening (Sunday 28th October 2018) I have the pleasure of getting to see "You and AI" as part of the Manchester Science Festival 2018. From the website: " You can call me AI. Join the Royal Society as they put Artificial Intelligence under the microscope. Physicist, author and broadcaster Jim Al Khalili will be hosting … Continue reading You and AI (Artificial Intelligence)
In the past I have wrote articles on installing Citrix Receiver on Mac OS and on the Raspberry Pi , however anyone looking for Citrix Receiver may now be a little confused as Citrix Receiver has now become Citrix Workspace app. The transition took place over Summer 2018 and according to Citrix it is the beginning … Continue reading Citrix Receiver Becomes Citrix Workspace app (October 2018)
Monday 17th September 2018 sees the start of National Coding Week. National Coding Week is all about encouraging people to give coding a go and with that in mind, and to help encourage anyone that reads my site and has not yet tried coding I thought a pre-National Coding Week blog post was needed. For … Continue reading National Coding Week (17th September 2018)
Over here in the UK it is the school Summer Holidays. For parents this means finding activities to keep young minds active, interested and from saying the dreaded words of "I'm bored". This can be hard when trying to keep educational / facts flowing over the summer break. For parents with young coders here are … Continue reading Summer Holiday Activities
Power UP is a video games event running at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry (Twitter: @msimanchester) between the 3rd and 19th August 2018. The official website for the event is https://www.msimanchester.org.uk/whats-on/power-up Power UP celebrates video games by allowing visitors to play video games from over the past 40 years. I visited this week with … Continue reading Power UP @ Manchester Museum of Science and Industry
I had a bit of spare time this evening and so headed over to CodeUp Salford (Twitter: @codeupsalford) to listen to Drew Morgan talk about Python. As my regular readers know, I enjoy Python. Heck it is currently my go to language to bounce ideas around in, and it was great to be in an environment … Continue reading CodeUp Salford / Humble Bundle Linux
To give a new author a chance to reach an audience and share their view/knowledge of programming I am proud to announce that http://www.geektechstuff.com is the home of geektechv2 - hopefully some articles on Scratch will be coming soon!
The last time I designed and physically built something out of materials (other than IKEA furniture) was way back in CDT (Craft Design Technology) lessons in high school. That all changed today as I became a volunteer maker for the day! Manchester Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) runs an event called "MakeFest", for details … Continue reading My Day As A Volunteer Maker
