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Date Published
Author
Greg Baugues
Word count
719
Language
English
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None

Summary

A dog named Kaira was taught by her owner, Greg Baugues, how to turn on a light and later how to send selfies using an Arduino Yun, a WiFi-enabled device with two microprocessors that can run programs in Python. The project uses the Arduino Yun's pin interaction capabilities to take a picture with a webcam, upload it to Dropbox, and then use Twilio to send an MMS of the selfie to Greg's phone. The system is simple, using less than 60 lines of code, and demonstrates how WiFi-enabled devices can be used to interact with web-based APIs in new and innovative ways.