I’ve open sourced a sample showing how to steer Anki Overdrive cars via Kinect and IBM Bluemix. The sample requires the Node.js controller and MQTT interface that I had open sourced previously. The...

I’ve extended the Anki Overdrive demo so that you can steer the cars via voice. I’ve used a combination of the Watson Speech to Text service and the Watson Natural Language Classifier service on Bl...

I spent some time to understand the Watson Retrieve and Rank service. Below are some findings that might help people to learn about the power of this cognitive service that is available in IBM Blue...

Bluemix provides starters to deploy Node-RED on Bluemix so that, for example, you can easily start creating flows for Internet of Things scenarios. In some cases however you might want to change th...

I’ve built a demo that shows how Anki Overdrive cars can be controlled from IBM Bluemix. Commands can be sent from the cloud to the cars, for example in order to set the speed, and the messages fro...

Over the holidays I looked briefly into how to extend Minecraft and how to utilize Bluemix. In multiplayer games it might make sense to understand the personalities of competitors or to understand ...

2015 has been a great year for me. I had the pleasure to work as developer advocate for an innovative technology, I could attend lots of developer conferences, had the opportunity to build cool app...

As the Node-RED website says “Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways”. It has been possible to use Node-RED for Internet of Th...

Update 06/06/16: Check out this article for new functionality in the Watson Visual Recognition Service. Watson’s Visual Recognition (beta) service on Bluemix understands the contents of images. Si...

IBM Watson provides services to enable cognitive functionality in your own applications. In this article I describe on a high level how to ‘mix’ some of these services to build question and answers...