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Re: Using Amazon Echo to Control Lights and Temperature < Constant::TINKERER - Zach Feldman's Blog

noelportugal — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 20:37:46 -0000

Cool. Not sure if you were inspired by Owen's and I discoveries in the past week. http://hackaday.com/2014/12.... I have bee using an RPI to monitor my TODO list and trigger stuff https://github.com/noelport... and Owen even started a forum to discuss all things related to Echo APIs
http://www.piettes.com/echo/.

Undoubtedly what we need from Amazon, is a console that we can add custom http callbacks to certain "verbs" after they have analyze the command with their NLP. That should be pretty much all I ask from them. In the mean time I have integrated with Hue, SmartThings, Twilio, and just for fun added wit.ai for NLP.

Great Job!

Re: Tampering with Siri

noelportugal — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:49:12 -0000

Nice! I used SiriProxy on my Raspberry PI this past halloween. The idea was that kids had to ask Siri for candy then my automatic candy dispenser was going to deliver it. But at the end I decided not to use it since Siri had issues understanding my 4&6 year old girls (usually they said more than my SiriProxy keyword was expecting :).

Re: Kris' blog: SQL Developer and Cloud.oracle.com

noelportugal — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:48:48 -0000

It might be worth to mention to make sure you have the latest SQL Developer installed :) I was scratching my head for a while since I was not able to make a connection with version 3.2.0X (don't remember now the actual v) I updated to 3.2.10.09 and now things are working!

Re: Raspberry Pi and Java

noelportugal — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:43:17 -0000

And now a picture of Simon from my angle!

Re: Oracle Social Network Business Cards

noelportugal — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:41:40 -0000

Thanks Ben. Jake added a note. I actually really like the idea of Mechanical Turk!

Re: Buy the Most Useless Box

noelportugal — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:34:46 -0000

Oh this is embarrassing. I just noticed you did blog about it before!

Re: Buy the Most Useless Box

noelportugal — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:27:08 -0000

I love it. I remember seeing the original model (before it was converted to a Think Geek product).

Re: Photography Protip #1

noelportugal — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:04:31 -0000

Yeah, sometimes when I want to travel light all I bring is the 50mm. There are times when I want to kick myself for not bringing my zoom lens, but it forces me to be creative :)

Re: Photography Protip #1

noelportugal — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:52:54 -0000

The Ecuadorian version :)

Re: Getting friends timeline from Twitter to Oracle APEX (PL/SQL)

noelportugal — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:05:34 -0000

Not at the time. I am not aware of a plsql package that deals with Oauth but maybe there is one out there.

Re: Socially Aware Christmas Lights

noelportugal — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:36:36 -0000

You can replace the stock controller of the GE lights and use and arduino to make your own program to control each light individually.

Re: Socially Aware Christmas Lights

noelportugal — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:43:20 -0000

Surprisingly this project didn't take long to build (2 days tops). The key is the open source community! Lots of resources out there!

Re: Twine Advances the Internet of Things

noelportugal — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:30:11 -0000

I like the idea but I think having each device with wi-fi is a bit overkill... A better idea is to build wireless "widgets" (zigbee or plain RF) on top of a hub such as the ioBridge (http://iobridge.com/). Either way can wait for more mainstream products like these, so I can have the house of the future.

Re: Are You Always/Never Available?

noelportugal — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:09:45 -0000

I also forget to mention that Oracle's Beehive has a nice feature that will automatically set IM status as Busy during planned calendar meetings.

Re: Are You Always/Never Available?

noelportugal — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:43:25 -0000

I do try to reflect my availability with IM status. In my previous job there was a lot of communication using IM and it was almost an unofficial sign to say I was 'on the clock'. It is funny you mention the 'Are you there' syndrome, It happens to me all the time.

Re: Welcome Noel

noelportugal — Thu, 19 May 2011 11:09:46 -0000

Thanks. I'm excited to see what we can do!

Re: Creating a JSON web service API for Find My iPhone

noelportugal — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:09:42 -0000

Have you considered updating your code to support the latest Find My iPhone?

Re: Sun SPOTs and the Internet of Things

noelportugal — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:56:55 -0000

This is awesome. I have been waiting to get my hands on one of these Sun SPOTs, hopefully I can soon.

Re: Noel’s Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser

noelportugal — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:50:02 -0000

It looks like the youtube embed is working again. Thanks for the post!

Re: What Do You Think of the iPad?

noelportugal — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:51:51 -0000

I do see the great value that tablets and specially the iPad will bring to the future of computing. I am not sure if I will get the first generation but eventually I will get one, specially when they figure out the kinks. I read this post http://bit.ly/8o38C2 a couple days before the launch, and the vision of Jef Raskin's "Morphing computer" resonated with me.

As far as use cases I do have a couple:
TV/couch companion - I enjoy watching live events and interacting with other via twitter. I would like to get sport stats and trivia while watching a game.
Kids computer - Last year I installed ubuntu with Kidoz (kid friendly browser) for my 2 year old, her first natural instinct was to touch the screen as she learned on my iPhone.
Bedside companion - I actually was pretty close to buy a Chumby. Do some last time search right before bed, have the iPad wake me in the morning with music etc. (this could be done with iPhone, except the internet experience)
Roaming computer - I do have my laptop docked on my home office and is a pain to dock/undock.

I for one welcome any kind of innovation that will make my life easier.

Re: OraTweet - Tweeting on the Enterprise

noelportugal — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:33:51 -0000

Done! Sorry about that!

Re: Noel’s Epic Christmas Hack

noelportugal — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:34:19 -0000

Yes. It's been on my calendar for a few days now! Now lets just keep it hush hush :) Its going to be interesting the load they will get on their site the 7th!

Re: Noel’s Epic Christmas Hack

noelportugal — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:06:49 -0000

Thanks Jake for the shout out!! A lot of the tech blogs (engadget & hackaday) comments seemed to loose track of what I really tried to achieve: an internet enabled Christmas lights and music display! I am of course aware of the amazing light shows out there, but most of them rely on a PC and run with predefined scripts. As you mention is working well!! I'm still working out the Video and I have the Audio semi-working...

The novelty here is that in the past doing things like this will take a lot more effort. Now with what is called "Open Source Hardware" is far more easy. There are plenty of [free] libraries that you can use to control your micro controller. Check this article by the WSJ about the Arduino http://bit.ly/7SFZCv ... I just barely got into it (right before Halloween) and I have learned a lot since there are lot of resources out there.

Thanks for the post and Merry Christmas!!!

Re: Feedback

noelportugal — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:59:35 -0000

I this case you could revert by using the standard apex_mail procedure that will allow you to use localhost....You will have to modify the procedures in OraTweet...Let me know if you need some sample code...

-Noel

Re: Feedback

noelportugal — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:29:14 -0000

The mail address is so OraTweet can send outbound email. If you have an email account with your hosted app (ie admin@yoursite.com) you can use that one. OraTweet has a procedure to allow authenticated SMTP to be sent. By default APEX has a built in function called apex_mail.send but in order to use this you need to have your host configured to handle email...If you decide to use the default apex_mail.send you will need to modify some of the code..

-Noel