about 2 months ago - Comments Off
After having a few un-expected power outages this year, it got me thinking about how I could easily (and cheaply) be alerted (preferably via SMS) should one occur. With a laptop running Linux, a little bit of Python and some easily obtainable hardware and software, I come up with a simple method of doing just
about 6 months ago - Comments Off
This may be old news to some of you but I thought it was interesting enough to warrant a blog post. The Podcast site Hacker Public Radio has a rather interesting episode about the current and future plans for the development of Python. Hope it’s useful to someone. Related posts:Handy Link: “Invent with Python” Taken
about 8 months ago - Comments Off
bpython is a Python interpreter interface on steroids! It’s main features are: Syntax Highlighting A save function (to save code you’ve entered to a file) Auto-intending (we all know how important correct indenting is when you’re writing python scripts!) Auto-Completion which displays suggestions for any built-in functions, helping you to get the syntax for a
about 9 months ago - 2 comments
Found this very comprehensive guide (Link is a PDF document), during my travels on Google, showing how to perform bit-level operations in AVR C. Hope it’s useful to someone. If you’ve not got a PDF reader to hand, then you can use Google’s Quick View link to this guide to view it in your browser
about 10 months ago - Comments Off
Want a great way to learn a programming language and have some fun? Why not take the Python Challenge. Just found out about this little gem on hackaday and thought I’d post it here to help spread the word. The Python Challenge site consists of a series of levels ( 33 levels at present) in
about 1 year ago - Comments Off
This Alarm Clock Arduino hack , featured on hackaday, has to be one of the most innovative uses of an Arduino and Python I have seen! The maker, insingertech, has published full instructions on his hack here. He goes into great detail on his build process and the diagrams (for the Relay Driver part of
about 1 year ago - Comments Off
Ok, so someone has already beaten me to it (and done a excellent job of it as well) with the whole web-based temperature monitoring thing, but anyway… Here’s Webthermo! Webthermo, my follow-up to Ardthermo, is a small, web-enabled Python script which uses the CherryPy HTTP Python framework. It allows you to monitor temperature (in both
about 1 year ago - 14 comments
After recently acquiring an Arduino Duemilanove I was racking my brains with what I could do with this marvel of modern electronics until I came across this example Sketch at the Arduino Playground Website that allowed an Arduino to function as a temperature measuring device with the addition of a few cheap and easily obtainable components.
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