Notes on things I learn — kept so I don't forget
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2018-06-17
Pi Camera stop motion animation
In preparation for a Raspberry Pi event I decided to create a simple GUI for creating stop motion animations using the Pi camera module to use for a demo.
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2018-06-09
Get the weather using Python
I recently spent a hour or so hacking a lucky cat so that it would only wave when it was sunny.
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2018-03-04
Python - Creating shortcuts
I was recently working on the mu project (a Python IDE for beginners), which is super easy to install using pip, but there is no way to automate the creation of desktop and menu shortcuts.
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2017-12-29
Setup Raspberry Pi Samba share
I almost always setup a samba share on every Raspberry Pi I install, it allows me to easily share files and work on my projects - so I thought I had better write down how I do it. Install samba:
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2017-11-15
Slack command line stream
I thought a Slack console might be useful, a very simple client I could display on an always on screen, so I did some experimenting with the Slack Developer Kit for Python and made a super simple c...
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2017-07-07
Python Bluetooth RFCOMM Client Server
As part of the Blue Dot project I needed to create a simple Bluetooth client / server library so that the communication could be managed. This library, btcomm, is part of bluedot but its not exclus...
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2017-07-04
Mac OS - Check Java version before running script
I needed to check what version of Java was installed on a Mac before running my program, so with the help of stackoverflow and a few other resources I pulled together the following bash script whic...