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Merry Christmas: An Introduction to Google Apps Script What is Google Apps Script(GAS)? GAS is a JavaScript-based platform for writing cloud applications and expanding/integrating with Google services. That probably doesn't sound very useful to the average user, but anyone with any JavaScript experience can start using GAS to automate tasks. Today we'll walk you through using a script we've written with GAS and break the commands down into pseudo-code. CodePy Christmas GAS This script does one simple thing: when it is Christmas, it will email you. To use: Go here to open the script Click the 'triggers' button Click 'No triggers set up. Click here to add one now.' Change 'Hour Timer' to 'Day Timer' In the last drop down box select what time of day you want to receive your email Click save and wait for Christmas! Watch the video below:   Awesome, now it's working! But wait, what does all this do? Ho

About Cayenne Cayenne is an IOT cloud program to assist you in quickly building automated projects with the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and other boards. You can the easy to use graphical interface to manually control pins, view live sensor data, and set up automated responses to run based on time or events. It also let's you remote control the device in a way similar to a VNC server. Cayenne may no be for everyone though, on some board models the program takes up 100% of the processing power constantly. But not to worry, the program is almost as easy to uninstall as it is to install. This tutorial will walk you through the installation process for Raspbian. Installation Android App Cayenne is best used with the companion Android and iOS apps. After opening the app, it will walk you through logging in (or creating an account) and autonomously locate and install your Pi. After it scans the network, click your Pi and enter the username and password (Default Raspbian Username: