Found 71 results for “iot”
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Making a Clap-Sensing Web Thing
The Project Things Gateway exists as a platform to bring all of your IoT devices together under a unified umbrella, using a standardized HTTP-based API. We recently announced the Things Gateway and we’ve started a series of hands-on project posts for people who want to set up a Gateway and explore. In this post we’ll take what we’ve learned so far and build a real add-on for the Gateway. This add-on will provide a clap-sensing Web Thing that we can use to control our lights and other devices.
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Creating an Add-on for the Project Things Gateway
The Project Things Gateway exists as a platform to bring all of your IoT devices together under a unified umbrella, using a standardized HTTP-based API. Currently, the platform only has support for a limited number of devices, and we need your help expanding our reach! Looking for a weekend project? It is fairly straightforward to add support for new devices, and we will walk you through how to do so.
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How to build your own private smart home with a Raspberry Pi and Mozilla’s Things Gateway
Last year we announced Project Things by Mozilla. Project Things is a framework of software and services that can bridge the communication gap between connected devices by giving “things” URLs on the web. Today I’m excited to tell you about the latest version of the Things Gateway and how you can use it to directly […]
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Inside a super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (aka Stylo)
Project Quantum is a major rewrite of Firefox’s internals to make Firefox fast. We’re swapping in parts from our experimental browser, Servo, and making massive improvements to other parts of the engine. The first major component from Servo—a new CSS engine called Quantum CSS (previously known as Stylo)—is now available for testing in our Nightly version. It brings together state-of-the-art innovations from four different browsers to create a new super CSS engine.
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Building the Web of Things
Mozilla is working to create a Web of Things framework of software and services that can bridge the communication gap between connected devices. Today we’re announcing the availability of a prototype of the first component of this system, the Things Gateway. We’ve made available a software image you can use to build your own Web of Things gateway using a Raspberry Pi.
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An Interview With Giovanny Beltran, js13kgames Winner
js13kgames, a JavaScript coding competition for HTML5 game developers, announced this year’s winners a few weeks ago. Today we have an interview with Giovanny Beltran, winner of many categories at js13kgames, and one of the best entries in this year’s contest. Giovanny has been programming for 13 years, and began working with JavasScript five years […]
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View Source Conference Berlin 2016
An overview View Source is an intimate, single-track conference for web developers, now in its second year. View Source 2016 takes place in Berlin, Germany, September 12-14, beginning with Ignite lightning talks on Monday evening, followed by two full days of great presenters, curated conversations, and sociable evenings. Tickets are still on sale. Here’s a […]
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Record almost everything in the browser with MediaRecorder
The MediaRecorder API lets you record media streams, i.e. moving images and audio. The result of these recordings can be, for example, an OGG file, like the ones you use to listen to music. Browser-wise, we can obtain streams in many ways. Let’s start with something you might be familiar with: we’ll get a stream […]
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WebRTC: Sending DTMF in Firefox
One of the features defined in WebRTC is the ability to send DTMF tones (popularly known in some markets as “touch tones”). While this has basically no purpose in the browser-to-browser case, it is somewhat important when using WebRTC to initiate calls to the legacy telephone network: many companies still use voice menu systems that […]
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View Source Conference: 16 great reasons to join us in Portland
What, when, where View Source is a brand new conference for web developers, presented by Mozilla and friends, produced by the folks who also bring you the Mozilla Developer Network, to share knowledge of the Open Web. It’s a single track event with plenty of time and space for discussion, demos, and hallway conversations. Talks […]