>> We didn't text back then,
because we just had pagers. You never had a pager?
>> No.
>> Take five, the bald and the beautiful.
>> It's me. Am bald and beautiful.
>> He's very beautiful.
>> Hi, am Burke Holland.
>> I'm Suz Hinton.
>> These are five IoT devices that
you should have bought yesterday.
>> It's true.
>> Yeah. Thing number one,
the LIFX light bulb.
Am I saying that right or is it LIF X?
>> I've heard both, jury sound.
>> We don't know. So, it's either LIFX or LIF X,
l think which one you ask.
This is it right here
and we actually weren't able to get it
connected to the internet for
45 minutes that we tried before this episode.
But, despite that, take my word for it,
it is good, and it comes in this cute little box here.
>> That is. Thank you.
>> It's very nice to join us.
>> I've seen online,
you've been doing some cool stuff with that.
>> Yes, so this was and we talked about this too.
It's sort of a gateway IoT drug.
It's very simple.
It's very simple API.
You don't have to really authenticate.
I've done some things like, I create an Azure function
which changes the color based on the weather.
I also registered the domain ienjoylamp.com, right?
Because I love lamp.com, was taken.
So you can go to ienjoylamp and you can
change the color of this light bulb.
So that's the LIFX?
>> LIFX.
>> LIFX light bulb?
>> LIFX, yeah.
>> I believe it's about 39 bucks,
and you can get it from Amazon.
>> Nice.
>> LIFX.
>> Thing number two is,
the Adafruit has outbreak out.
This is a personal favorite microcontroller
of mind that's able to connect via WiFi.
So, you can pretty much do
whatever IoT project you want to do with it,
because it's not sort of-
it doesn't come with a program running out-of-the-box.
That's kind of what we invent for it.
>> Nice. So you write the code that comes on it?
>> Yeah, there's no code on it and
so you just come up with a project.
It is actually Arduino compatible,
so you can just write your regular Arduino plug.
>> So, you can now plug it into the Arduino?
>> It kind of behaves like an Arduino.
It just has WiFi capabilities on it.
>> So, it's already built into the chip there?
>> It's all built-in, it's using the ESP 2.6.6,
which probably means nothing by itself but.
>> I nodded my head like I knew
you'll talk but I doubted.
>> But it's a really, really popular WiFi chip
that has a little bit of room to upload a program to you.
So, this is an outrageously popular WiFi chip
in the maker community because you
can get them really affordably.
A lot of manufacturers actually
create these breakout boards
for them which gives you stuff that,
is kind of boring to add such as
voltage regulation and just ways
to actually program it in the first place.
>> Nice and how much is it?
>> So, this is about 10 bucks.
So, I just always have a bunch of them lying around.
Usually, when you buy
an Arduino they're a little more expensive.
So you have to kind of take
apart your project every time which is heartbreaking.
>> Right.
>> But if you buy a bunch of these you can
just leave them all assembled because they are all-.
>> So, this is a little bit more
disposable because they're cheaper?
>> Totally. So, if you buy them out,
it's usually not a huge deal.
>> Nice.
>> Yeah.
>> Thing number three,
this cat here which sings The Final Countdown.
>> Look, I didn't think this was an IoT device.
>> Sure, it is.
>> Like how does it connect to the internet?
>> Well, it doesn't connect to the internet but it sings
The Final Countdown and swings and Nunchaku.
>> Where did you even find this?
>> I got at Lowe's on Quinas.
>> How much did you actually pay for this?
>> About five bucks.
>> Yeah, you wasted your money.
>> No.
>> It's sort of forgivable actually,
but I still wouldn't have spend five bucks on it.
>> I pushed the button once.
Because it was at a [inaudible] , so I pushed
the button once and it went off and I was like,
I have to own this. I don't care how much it is.
>> So, you know that guy?
>> Yes.
>> That these people are in
a corporate boardroom all talking about.
>> Wait.
>> What's going to suck you and.
>> What idiot is going to buy this?
>> That's you.
>> This idiot.
>> Actual thing number three is the Azure MXChip.
We've got a couple of them here. So, we
have this one which is out-of-the-box.
>> This is mine.
>> That's yours.
>> This is my personal one here.
>> This is mine here. You actually gave me one of these.
>> I did.
>> Which is a fantastic way
to get started with IoT on Azure.
>> Yes, it is. What I love the most about it is that you
don't just have to
plug a whole bunch of things into get started.
Which is usually the most confusing part about IoT.
Everyone freaks out about
the wires and like what it is supposed to do.
>> The breadboards, all that sort of stuff.
>> I'm going to electrocute myself and like that.
>> What the heck is the capacitor?
>> Right.
>> I don't know what any of this stuff does.
>> Yeah. So, this has so many things on it.
To be honest, I do use it pretty
heavily as a proto-typing device,
because I can test out ideas and then if
it's a bad idea then we can just forget about it.
>> It does have a lot of stuff, it has an LED screen.
It has temperature sensors.
It has an accelerometer.
>> It does. It has like a pressure sensor,
it has a gyroscope.
It has LED's, buttons.
It has a microphone too.
>> Does it really?
>> Yes. You can do a whole bunch of
stuff with this and pretty much just
glue all of these different components
together with your code,
then you can end up creating pretty cool stuff.
The fact that it connects to the internet,
and it also has this little
Azure LED which is my favorite,
so you always know.
>> Right, it lights up blue.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. It's pretty new.
>> So you always know it's connected?
>> Right. So, if you're looking to get started
with Azure IoT Hub,
and visualizing your data with Power BI,
you'd do this using the MXChip which also comes with
some code that you can run through VS Code.
>> Totally.
>> Then push up to the IoT Hub.
Just a simple way to get started.
>> It totally is.
>> That's awesome.
>> I think it's around 39 bucks.
So considering how many pieces you get on this board,
that's actually really good about it.
>> It's really good. Yeah, you get
every sensor in the kitchen sink.
>> Cool.
>> That's like 40 bucks.
>> Are you ready?
>> Okay, all right. I'm ready.
Thing number four, is the Flic button and it's
a smart button I don't know if you know what that means.
>> I'm assuming it's some sort of button that you
press and then something happens.
>> Totally.
>> On the internet.
>>Totally. So, for example,
I could double-click it,
like I just did and it might send you a text message.
>> Is it going to Twilio?
>> There might be a Twilio connection.
>> Oh, got any Goo Goo Clusters?
Actually, I do have some Goo Goo Clusters.
>> I was really hoping you're going to bring them today.
>> Let's see here. Oh, I do, for you supreme.
>> I'm so pumped this is literally
the flavor that I wanted this whole time.
>> Just so you know, it's like 20,000 calories.
So, once you eat that, you don't need to
eat again for another month,
like a snake eating an antelope.
>> Can I look like a snake eating an antelope?
>> You maybe if you eat out 20,000 calories.
>> I'm excited. There's been a lot of buildup.
I've been watching this whole series.
>> It's worth it.
>> Waiting for my Goo Goo Cluster moment.
>> Wait, is this your first one?
>> This is my first Goo Goo Cluster.
>> Oh, my goodness, can we get a close up? It's sublime.
Here's the thing, we need to get
sponsored by Goo Goo Clusters.
So, here's my message to Goo Goo Clusters, sponsor us.
Notice that she's not eating a moon pie,
she's eating a Goo Goo Cluster.
>> It's pretty good.
>> So, unless you want all of
the guests eating moon pies,
please sponsor the show.
I want like an official Goo Goo Cluster sponsorship,
like five things brought to you by Goo Goo Clusters.
>> So the Flic button is able to
connect to either your phone via Bluetooth,
which lets you use a companion app to program
it to do pretty much like a lot of different things.
>> When you say program from the phone app,
is that just moving a bunch of actions around?
>> Totally.
>> You're not writing code.
>> No, there's no codes.
So, you can do things like web hooks,
you can use If This Then That.
You can send text messages
and stuff like that. So it's pretty cool.
>> Okay.
>> But then you can also connect it
to what's called a Flic hub,
which means you don't have to have your phone
around and you can have lots of
different buttons maybe situated around
your home and they can be all doing different things.
>> How much is the Flic button?
>> Yes, you can get a full pack for less than 100 bucks.
>> Okay.
>> Which isn't too bad? Yeah.
>> No. Little pricey for button.
>> Little pricey.
>> You'll get much before. You want
the best buttons, you got to play around.
>> It's actually a really satisfying to press. So, yeah.
>> It is. It's very neat. It's actually a
very this is a little bit
of a weird thing to say but as buttons go,
it's a very nice-looking button.
>> It is, yeah. The adhesive on
the back is reusable as well which is great.
>> Yeah, cool so check those out, there's Flic buttons.
Thing number five, is the Particle Maker Kit.
This is the Particle Maker Kit.
This thing is about 89 bucks and it has everything.
It's got a breadboard,
it's got the transistors,
it's got like a little micro servo.
I mean it's just full of stuff.
So, if you're really looking to get into IoT,
and you really want to do everything yourself,
this is a really cool kit from the folks at Particle.
It automatically connects to the Particle Cloud as well.
So your data just goes into the Cloud,
and then they have connectors to the Azure IoT Hub.
>> They do.
>> Right. So you can pull it in and
then you can visualize it with something like
Power BI or send
it off to something else to the Event Grid.
>> Particle had been around for a while, right?
So there are super robust platform
that's it's been tested with many, many, many people.
So, it's so easy to get started.
That was probably my
main takeaway when I first heard of it.
>> It was the Particle. Yeah, they have a lot of
other cool boards that they're selling as well,
like the Proton, there is a Photon.
So, check out the particle stuff.
An excellent way for you to take your IoT stuff,
and do a whole lot more with them.
>> Every time I dropped a chromium,
I always try not to laugh.
You can just feel them dropping.
>> They are very crummy like when you buy it in
it's like explodes out of the side of your mouth.
But that doesn't me too, but mostly
it's just like all over the bed.
Like in the hotel there's this Goo Goo Cluster,
paraphernalia. I'm Burke Holland.
>> And I'm Sue Hinton.
>> That's five IoT devices that you
probably should have bought yesterday.
We've got links to
all those devices in the show notes below,
as well as links to some of the open-source projects
we were talking about.
>> Yeah.
We would love to know what your favorite IoT devices.
So, please leave us a comment
below and we would love to check them out.
>> If you have a Nunchaku just like mine,
I would also like to know if I'm not the only one.
>> No, please leave.
>> With a Nunchaku.
>> Let him think he's alone.
>> Nunchaku in the comments.
>> No.
>> Stupidest thing.