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DIY Smart Television with RaspberryPi and Node.js

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Hardware Components:

Software Stack:

  • Raspbian – a fork of Debian designed for the Raspberry Pi 
  • Node.js
  • Chromium Browser
  • OMX-player
  • Youtube-dl – Youtube video downloader
  • Quo.js – Cross-platform swipe gestures library
  • HTML5, CSS3 transitions, Javascript, and Moustache as a template engine
  • Youtube API

End-result:

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Raspberry Pi TV with its special remote controller

Outline

  • Installing software and packages.
  • Basic shellcode
  • Server-side scripting: Node.js, Express.js, and Socket.io
  • Client-side scripting: Dashboard and remote mobile-app

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Media Lab Workshop 2014 – The Recap.

We boarded that plane and started the mysterious journey on a Sunday night. I was lucky to join some friends from my hometown and others from Lamba Labs – Beirut First Hackerspace. We Joined forces and few hours later, we landed at Abu Dhabi’s airport and got our brain scanned then made it to the hotel safe and sound.

The next day, things started to gradually make sense. Snap back to reality, I knew I had a new quest to complete but I wasn’t really sure of what exactly that is. In fact, I wasn’t sure at all; the agenda of the workshop was clear and it’s definitely not a typical entrepreneurship event. I had a feeling we’re going to build something! The clock tics… and it’s time to begin.

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[Workshop] The JavaScript Revolution I

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Powered By Lamba Labs – Beirut First Hacker Space

Talks:

  1. Theoretical JavaScript and OO Concepts by Jad Jabbour
  2. JavaScript in the mobile world: Code structure and optimisation by Jad Joubran 
  3. An intro to Backbone.js by Piotr Yordanov
  4. The JavaScript ecosystem: Node.js & MongoDB by Donald Derek
  5. Experimental JavaScript: Arduino & Node.js by Marc Farra

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[CF-I] Configure your staging machine with Node.js and NGINX

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If you are one of those critical readers, you might be asking yourself: what the hell is [CF-I]. Well, I'm a Linux "control" freak and I'm trying to compile a series of blogposts where I can keep track and explain to myself how I solved problems that i've been facing daily in the backend world.

If you want to cut the chase and skip the brief explanation you can find my NGINX Config files on this Github repository.

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Jedis from Lebanon in the Arabnet Final Championship 2013

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Representing Lebanon in the Arabnet Final Championship 2013

Four geeks from Lebanon, from left to right we have Jad Joubran, Georges Frewat, Donald Derek Haddad and Roy Naufal landed in Dubai for a united purpose, winning. We fought with our laptops and music till the end, and got the title back to our country. It was a hell of an experience my friends.

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