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Why ? Music Education usually involves a student using several instruments. A student needs to log practice time which should meet a certain amount of time spent practicing with the instrument. This is usually done using a log book. The logbook usually needs to be initialed by the parent. ( Sometimes the parent does not really know if the student practiced or not.). So, the logbook usually gets signed by the parent but the student did not really practice. How can you verify this ? - You can record every practice via video (but you are going to need to watch the video in order to determine the amount of practice time) There must be a better way of logging music practice. Music Practice Logbook How to solve this issue ? Good thing is that there is a lot of makers out there connecting things to the internet.  We can create a device that will log music practice so that we can see a summary of the length of practice every day. Using a mic sensor, led lights , and a particle w

Messaging for the Internet of Things   As we embed processing power to a lot of our everyday things. The thing will need to communicate with a server to send data or get data . The thing needs data in order to make something happen. The thing needs to send data so that we can be smarter on how we use the thing. But How do we send data to a central server that is robust, asynchronous and reliable ? MQ, what is old is new Again  MQ or Message Qeueing is new again in the age of the Internet of Things. Messaging Patterns for the enterprise has been around for ages. What were the major reasons that messaging addresses ? 1. Networks are unreliable - data needs to be transported over the network. These networks are a conglemeration of different types of network. Since we do not have control of over most of the network that we use to access the internet. The network will present a lot of problem specially when you are sending messages across the internet. 2. Networks are slow - The