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Tutorials, demos, and code walkthroughs for a wide variety of real-time web, mobile, and IoT projects.

BuildJun 25, 2015

Triggering Raspberry Pi Hue LEDs from Android UI

How to trigger Raspberry Pi hue LEDs from an Android UI in real time. Change colors, turn on and off, and monitor state in real time.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJun 24, 2015

Sending and Receiving Android Push Notifications w/ GCM

How to send and receive real-time Android push notifications using the GCM Google Cloud Messaging API and PubNub.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJun 23, 2015

Getting Started with GCM Android Push Notifications

Getting started with GCM for Android and PubNub to send real-time mobile push notifications to mobile users.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJun 16, 2015

Building a Raspberry Pi Motion Sensor with Real-time Alerts

How to build a Raspberry Pi motion sensor that when triggered sends real-time alerts to a web interface.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildJun 11, 2015

Remote Control Raspberry Pi LEDs from a Web Browser UI

How to control Raspberry Pi LEDs from a web browser in real time. This is a basic Raspberry Pi LEDs remote configuratio tutorial using Python.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
Real-time weather station intel edison
BuildJun 10, 2015

DIY Real-time Weather Station with Intel Edison and Cylon.js

We absolutely love when developers harness the real-time capabilities of the PubNub API and extend it to the Internet of Things. With the affordability, capabilities, and flexibility of new embedded boards, the sky’s the limit for IoT hobbyists and developers for any skill level. So when a great...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
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BuildJun 3, 2015

Building Real-time Sync Apps with Backbone.js

How Backbone.js’s Model and View architecture can be integrated with to create one such web app which is always alert to real-time changes.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildMay 28, 2015

Calculating Geolocation Proximity w/ JavaScript Geohashing

How to calculate geolocation proximity to other locations, and compare that first location to surrounding locations using the GoogleMaps API.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildMay 21, 2015

Remote Control and Monitoring for Tessel Servo

This tutorial shows you how to remote control your Tessel Servo remotely and track the Tessel Servo movement and current position in real time.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll