New Year, New Home, New Beginnings.. Life’s good !!
Excited to speak at the Indian Technology Congress (ITC 2018), alongside some notable speakers including Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan awardees and Distinguished Scientists from NASA and ISRO.
Venue: NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore
Date: Sep 5, 2018 at 2:30pm
Excited to speak at the Image & Video Analytics Summit, Bangalore
Event Link: https://1point21gws.com/analytics/bangalore/
Venue: Courtyard by Marriott, ORR, Bellandur, Bangalore
Date: Aug 1, 2018
A storyteller bot for Alexa to read bedtime stories from children’s classics.
Tools Used: Alexa Echo, Alexa Skill Kit, AWS – Lambda, S3, Python SDK Boto3
Check details on hackster – https://www.hackster.io/pamruta/fairy-tell-bot-8b4298
Objective: Create Fashionably Smart Jewellery using Near Field Communication (NFC) Technology.
What you need:
[1] NXP NTag Stickers (preferable NTAG-21x series). I purchased mine on Amazon.com for under Rs 500 (pack of 6). Waterproof tags are also available.
[2] NFC compatible smart phone.
[3] Jewellery items you would like to smarten up (e.g. brooch, pendant, cufflinks, bracelet, watch etc) with a surface of at least 3cm in diameter to stick the NTag sticker.
Step 1: Stick the NFC sticker on the backside of your jewellery.
Step 2: Enable the NFC option in your mobile phone’s settings to read / write the tag.
Step 3: Program the NFC Tag using the NFC TagWriter App by NXP.
With this mobile app, you can program your tag to perform number of actions such as to share your business card / contact details, open your company’s or product’s webpage, send an email message or SMS, place a phone call, navigate users to a specific location / address on the map etc.
Below are some of the popular use-cases:
I’ve programmed mine so that it takes users to my LinkedIn profile or website.
Step 4: Test your newly programmed jewellery by simply tapping it on the back of any NFC enabled phone to make sure it’s working as expected. Done!