GBC Ink Capstone

Greetings, For this week’s capstone, the group did a bit of research instead of working to complete an integration or getting hardware to work. There are many different services offered by Microsoft Azure such general, computing, networking, storage, web mobile, databases, analytics, AI, IoT, and many other services. We wanted to learn more about these services, so we created a couple of items. We tried Azure Cloud Database for MySQL, IoT Hub, Storage account, SQL database, Azure Cosmos DB, Virtual Network, DDoS protection and SQL Server. The goal of this research was to save sensor data directly from device to database using Node-Red, and the next step would be to do it through WiFi using a device such as ESP8266.         Node red has nodes designed for Microsoft Azure, we tried using the Azure SQL, database and Blob. We kept getting a disconnect or error on login even though the information we input was correct. This means that the way we set ...

Greetings, Today we worked with a device from Microsoft called the MXChip IoT DevKit. The board comes with a lot of different sensors built in, it is programmed through Visual Studio Code and requires Arduino IDE as well as a Microsoft Azure Account. This board runs on 3.3V and we can easily provide this by plugging it into a computer with a Micro USB cable. We used the following steps to set it up. 1. Download Arduino IDE, Visual Studio Code and ST-Link/V2 and install. 2. After entering Visual Studio Code, we need to download the Arduino and Azure IoT Tools add on to program them by going to the marketplace on the left hand side. We can enter Arduino and Azure IoT tools into the search bar to find them and install them. 3. After installing them, at the top right corner, go to File > Preferences > Settings and in the search bar, enter settings.json. After locating settings.json open it and enter the following "arduino.path": ...

Hi, This blog will entail the journey of a capstone project done at George Brown College under the fictional company GBC Ink. Thanks, Michael