Entries by Paul O'Brien

ESP32 programming with Arduino on Windows

Today, I had an ESP32 development board arrive.  I have been eagerly awaiting this new ESP32 chip as from what I can understand, it has a lot more I/O pins (which you run out of pretty quickly on a ESP8266 dev board like a Wemos) with some more dedicated rs232 interfaces, and the big thing […]

Azure DNS via PowerShell

In my working world, I recently have discovered the relatively new feature in Azure – DNS. From my early playing round it seems great! Very fast to update and easy to control with scripting. You will need the Azure PowerShell provider.  Very simple to get. You basically open up PowerShell and type:

And then you […]

Google Places API in C# .NET

I recently had a requirement to look in to using the Google Places API in some code i was writing. I found this library here that made the whole thing a lot easier. https://github.com/azizmb9494/Google-Places    I ended up writing a quick C# application to test the different searches by lon/lat and by text. Download Places – […]

First Time Caller…

Hello World, as they say. I’m getting all modern and entering the world of blogging… I’m a 40 year old lad from NZ who likes playing around with gadgets and things and has worked in the IT industry and Cloud Computing space most of my working life… I’ve also been messing about with some of these new […]