
Explore advanced Node-RED techniques by learning to run on Docker, integrate with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and build multi-cloud applications with practical guidance and resources.
Explore the basics of Node-RED: interconnecting hardware, IoT platforms, and API services with nodes in the editor workspace and palette, powered by Node.js and npm.
Install and run Node-RED in Docker by building a Docker image from a Dockerfile, launching containers, and accessing the Node-RED editor on your host.
Learn to create a Node-RED node from a Node.js module, inspect html and js files, and implement a word-count function using msg.payload, then test it.
Create a JavaScript file for a Node-RED node, defining runtime behavior with module.exports and RED. Implement WordCountNode, use config from the editor, and listen for input messages.
Package and publish the word count node for node-red by creating a proper package.json, organizing files, linking locally with npm, and publishing to the npm registry.
Build a rock, paper, scissors game in Node-RED on a Raspberry Pi using a camera and IBM Watson Visual Recognition to identify signs and log scores on a dashboard.
Train a visual model in IBM Watson Studio by creating a project, attaching COS cloud object storage, and uploading a training set to build a custom image classifier.
make node-red play with you by routing image analysis results through change and switch nodes, handle empty classifications, then use random, join, and function nodes to play rock, paper, scissors.
Set up the node-red dashboard to track a rock paper scissors game, display signs and results, and store scores in sqlite with a history table.
Enhance a rock-paper-scissors game in node-red by adding a delete table query to reset data, an audio dashboard for instructions, and a dark-themed dashboard with sign images.
Learn how Alexa works with skills, invocation names, and intents, and build simple automations like alarms using Alexa hosted Node.js or AWS Lambda.
Explore how AWS Lambda integrates with Alexa Skills Kit and AWS IoT to publish MQTT messages to Node-RED, including setup, testing, and essential libraries such as ASK-SDK and AWS-SDK.
Explore how Node-RED orchestrates data from AWS IoT using MQTT, configuring secure connections with certificates on port 8883, and shaping payloads with JSON, Lambda, and debug nodes.
Automate leave approvals in node-red by building a Slack bot that checks two business days before leave, pulls earned leaves data from Quikchex, and uses Amazon Lex for intents.
Build a secure slack integration for node-red on raspberry pi with https and ngrok, creating a slack bot, configuring events, http in/out nodes, and Lex intents to process leave requests.
Configure a Slack leave-application bot to reply to employee requests, using the postMessage method with token, channel, and text, and thread replies via thread_ts.
Create an Azure Face API instance and understand how it works. Explore how face detection and face recognition extract facial geometry and compare it to a database of known images.
Test the Azure face API endpoints in Node-RED, configure the subscription key and West US region, and inspect face detect results and identify workflows with person groups.
Learn to use the face identify API to build a face recognition flow in node-red, including creating a person group, adding persons and faces, training the model, and performing recognition.
Complete a face recognition security project in node-red by implementing persisted context, configuring a multi-tab interface with admin, person group, and manage data sections, and linking dashboards with keypad security.
Learn to perform text detection with Google Cloud Vision API using Node-RED, configuring API keys, buffers, and image inputs to extract text and prepare for PDF conversion.
Convert the identified text to pdf by saving it in a flow variable and triggering the pdf conversion with a button, using html-pdf or alternative APIs.
Add functionality to advanced node-red projects by triggering actions with Google Assistant via IFTTT, using webhooks, ngrok, delays, and a handwritten document to pdf converter.
July 2022 Update
Updated Bill of Materials
October 2020 Update
Recreated Bill Of Materials PDF to make it more organized and added an Update Video
September 2020 Update
In-depth Lecture on changes and updates to Node-RED (Version 1.1+)
Lecture on how to add/update nodes to the Flow Library in Node-RED (Version 1.1+)
Hello learners! Welcome to Makerdemy’s "Advanced Node-RED" course. If you are looking for that special course that teaches you how to prototype and develop applications by interfacing multiple cloud platforms, on the go, you have come to the right place. This is an advanced level course, so, prior knowledge of basic programming principles and electronic concepts is a must before taking this course.
Through an innovative pedagogy of mixing projects and concepts, this course will help you learn the WHY, HOW and WHAT. To this end, this course is beyond a cookbook. You will always know WHY you are doing something. For the more curious learners, we have ample resources to dive in and continue your learning journey.
By the end of the course, you will be confident enough to use Node-RED to prototype real-world applications using different cloud platforms. You will also learn to build Node-RED nodes. As a part of this course, you will be exposed to building flows absolutely based on logic which is how Node-RED works!
If you are a technology enthusiast or an engineer with a good understanding of electronics and programming, JS, HTML, and Node.js, and also have experience with working on AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud platforms, this is the course for you. Also, we highly recommend you complete MAKERDEMY’s Introduction to Node-RED Course before enrolling in this.
So, what are you waiting for?! Come, join me in this course. I am looking forward to being your instructor and guide you in building cool applications with Node-RED.