Category: Student Projects
How we integrated IBM Watson services into a Telegram chat bot
Introduction IBMs artificial intelligence ‘Watson’ on the IBM Bluemix platform offers a wide range of cognitive services like image and audio analysis among other things. During our semester project in the lecture ‘Software Development for Cloud Computing’ we integrated useful Watson services into a Telegram chat bot to provide a convenient form of direct access…
How to build an Alexa Skill to get information about your timetable
Introduction With information technology today we can easily get any kind of information someone is interested in. Whether you want to know how the weather will be tomorrow or how to cook your favorite cake, you can find out almost anything today. But as a user it’s getting more important to gain information quickly, and…
Setup your own Google Home with custom Hotwords
In this article, I will show you how to setup your own Google Home on your Raspberry Pi or any other Linux computer. Further, I will teach you how can create own triggers and hotwords for your assistant.
Build a Serverless Google Home App
In this blog article, I want to show you how to build your own Google Voice app. For Natural language processing, we will use API.AI. Our backend will run on a Google Cloud function, also called serverless functions, written in nodejs.
Dapp Development on Ethereum
In this blog entry we take a look at how to develop a Dapp (‘decentralized app’) on the Ethereum blockchain network and enhance our development process through Gitlab’s continuous integration (CI) services. It is part of the examination for the lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing”. First, all the necessary technologies to develop a Dapp…
Our moments of AHA
Once again we spent an entire semester rifling through papers trying to learn something from the great ideas and mistakes others did before us. In this post we want to share with you our greatest moments of aha together with the papers that provoked them. How hacking team got hacked – you would think they…
Livestreaming with libav* – Tutorial (Part 1)
Lifestreaming is the real deal of video today, however there aren’t that many content creation tools to choose from. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are pushing hard to enable their users to stream vlogging-style content live from their phones with proprietary Apps, and OBS is used for Let’s Plays and Twitch streams. But when you want to stream…
Of Apache Spark, Hadoop, Vagrant, VirtualBox and IBM Bluemix Services – Part 6 – Apache Spark and/vs Apache Hadoop?
At the beginning of this article series we introduced the core concepts of Hadoop and Spark in a nutshell. Both, Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are frameworks for efficient processing of large data on computer clusters. The question arises how they differ or relate to each other. Hereof it seems the opinions are divided. In…
Of Apache Spark, Hadoop, Vagrant, VirtualBox and IBM Bluemix Services – Part 5 – Spark applications in PIA project
The main reason for choosing Spark was a second project which we developed for the course “Programming Intelligent Applications”. For this project we wanted to implement a framework which is able to monitor important events (e.g. terror, natural disasters) on the world through Twitter. To separate important tweets from others we use Latent Dirichlet Allocation…
Of Apache Spark, Hadoop, Vagrant, VirtualBox and IBM Bluemix Services – Part 4 – Big Data Engineering
Our objective in this project was to build an environment that could be practical. So we set up a virtual Hadoop test cluster with virtual machines. Our production environment was a Hadoop Cluster in the IBM Bluemix cloud which we could use for free with our student accounts. We developed and tested the logic of…
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