Bio
Harold Pulcher is a Microsoft MVP, co-ambassador for Hackster.io, developer, network engineer, magician, woodworker, and part time grease monkey. He has over 25 years of experience working in Information Technology. During that time he has done everything from running network cable, setting up various companies infrastructure from the absolute bare metal, and building line of business software for many of those companies. As passionate as he is about technology, you might happen to see him checking his air reserve while at a depth of 60 feet, cooking up a mean “free-range” fruit cake, doing pre-show table magic at the improv, or making a nice piece of wood into a lot of sawdust so my wife will have potting bench for her plants.
My Talks
Cognitive services, next step in creating our robot overlords
Although it seems like a sci-fi show, cognitive services allows the mere mortal access to the power of speech, image, and text recognition. Let me show you how easy this stuff is both use and inco...
Get into IoT with Windows 10 IoT core and a raspberry pi
This is an introduction to Windows 10 IoT core. I will show how to set up the OS on a raspberry pi. Include live demonstrations of code running on hardware utilizing both input and output devices....
Hardware store doesn't have the part you need? 3D print it! I will show you how.
As overwhelming as 3D printing seems, with a little knowledge, an eye for detail, and some patients, 3D printing is a ton of fun and possibly how most things will be made in the future. There curr...
How to talk to millions of IoT devices without pulling out your hair
How do you keep track these various devices? How do they communicate information back to and forth? I show how to configure the devices, communicate in both directions, and how to test those commu...
How to use IoT and win a trip to China(almost)!
There are a lot of opportunities in the emerging IoT world. I will walk you through my inspiration and implementation of my winning Hackster.io project from the 2016 Young Makers competition in Ch...
Make your app look good on every windows device on the planet!
UWP offers the ability to allow a program to run on multiple devices without changing a single line of code. I demonstrate the techniques on how to detect and take advantage of the various device ...
My users posted what?
Content management has not received the amount of attention it really should. In this day and age where a single bad tweet, meme, or comment can cost tons of money and irreparable damage to your r...