High Level Tech Intro Archives — Eric Burns Online

In the IoT Space, Is It a Microcontroller or What?

I’m working on an introductory article related to building IoT devices. With that I’m trying to use simpler and non-threatening language that is reasonably accurate. Since I’ll be referencing some common open source hardware as a way of getting started learning, I’m having a hard time with how to classify…

Demos – The Website

November 30, 2023 High Level Tech Intro Sales Engineers No Comments

Many technical solutions are related to a website or web based solution. And when doing a demo of those solutions it helps to emulate that website to show the system interacting with. It might be showing how Fastly can log everything that happens at the edge, or showing a customized…

Getting Started Learning Programming

October 30, 2023 High Level Tech Intro SE Skills No Comments

HelloWorld() Several recent articles have listed Programming as a top skill to learn. Even if you don’t intend it as a career, there are many advantages to at least a BASIC* (pun intended) understanding of it. As someone who learned to program in elementary school, I’ve seen the lifelong benefits…

Learning to Program and Interact with Hardware – and Perhaps Building That Minimally Viable Product

March 31, 2023 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi No Comments

Want to learn to program? Combine that with learning electronics? Perhaps your goal is to get hired or get promoted. Maybe so you can build an MVP (Minimally Viable Product) with which to get funding or attract a startup team? Let me tell you about an inexpensive circuit board…

Rasa Conversational AI – Getting Started

January 22, 2023 Conversational AI High Level Tech Intro Startups No Comments

If you want to implement Conversational AI (CAI) and have some developer cycles available it is well worth your time to take a good look at Rasa Open Source. Especially if a CAI virtual assistant is something you’d like to have – but isn’t yet a hard requirement. Rasa has…

Purposeful Learning With Deliberately Insecure Applications

November 13, 2022 High Level Tech Intro Sales Engineers SE Skills No Comments

Most people learn better with hands-on purposeful learning. But learning Hacking and Web Security becomes challenging to do without breaking laws. Several applications have been created that are intentionally insecure. Virtualization and Containers have accelerated this. It has become easier to create, break and destroy applications – learning along the…

Multiple Clipboards for Demos

October 30, 2022 High Level Tech Intro Sales Engineers No Comments

The Clipboard A big part of making a demo clean and clear is not having mistakes show you down. Those mistakes can throw you off and distract the participants. Sometimes you are also dealing with content that is more complex than you can remember and type in quickly. An…

Using Professional Services? Ease of Use Still Matters

September 3, 2022 Attitude High Level Tech Intro Startups No Comments

It When implementing a SaaS solution, firms can go one of three ways. For all of these, a solution’s Ease of Use (EoU) matters for the bottom line in several ways. By EoU I am referring to what level of skill and technical knowledge is required to use the solution. …

Enhancing your Raspberry Pi Experience

June 22, 2022 Raspberry Pi No Comments

A few years into working with RaspberryPi Single Board Computers (SBCs) I’ve come across a few items that enhance the experience. The systems are already remarkably inexpensive, and for a few dollars more you can become even more efficient working with them. Good For All The first item I ran…

Let the Raspberry Pi 400 Solve your Virtual Event Supply Chain Issues

April 24, 2022 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi No Comments

I’ve done a handful of virtual events where a Raspberry Pi was provided as a key component for the attendees. At the time they were plentiful in supply and inexpensive. Unfortunately it is now very challenging, as well as perhaps expensive, to get them in quantity. Especially if you want…