Category: Python
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Rpi_status (The raspberry pi has got his hat on, Sort of)
tl;dr As of writing this the raspberry pi zero is still hard to get hold of, Since I managed to snag one I thought I would put it some use. Also Hackaday/Adafruit gave me a kick up the arse with there Contest too. I haven’t really done anything with raspberry pi GPIO before now. I had…
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Shut it down (Raspberry pi that is) (Updated rev b avilable)
UPDATE New rev b version of the shutdown button has been released. Much smaller and improved get it HERE tl:dr The one bug bare about running a ‘headless’ raspberry pi is shutting it down when something goes wrong. I started looking into what other people had done, I quite liked the look of the turnoffeepi…
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Atmega_screen – LCD status screen with a few bells and whistles
I love glanceable information that’s the reason I still wear a watch so if I need to know the time/date I can flick my wrist and its there. This is where I came up with the idea to make Atmega_screen a screen of some sort to display information such as weather or stock value which is…
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Tweeting from python
If you have ever wanted to tweet from one of your python scripts now’s your chance. first things first you will need to install the python twitter api wrapper and all the dependences but that should be pretty straight forward for you. Next up you will need to get a twitter app develipor acount, to do this…
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Time limiting updates (python)
After working with a very limited weather API (10 calls per minute) from wunderground (sign up here). I wanted to add some code into my weather app so it wouldn’t call the API if it didn’t need to. Here is an example, you call the API for the current weather it saves that to a text file and the…
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From Dropbox to iPhone [jailbreak]
After I found out I could run python on my iPhone I wanted an easy way to get access to all my py files without having to load them all onto my phone. I find the best way to work is to work out of a Dropbox folder so you can get at your py…
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T-shirt picker
Have you ever found yourself bored, wanting to work on a new project but couldn’t decide what to under take. well I was so I did some goggling around came across this instructables post asking for a way to make a python app that would randomly pick a t-shirt out of a predetermined list then remove that t-shirt from the list.…
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Setting up Python 2.5 / 2.7.2 on IOS – (Jailbreak)
Python 2.5 for IOS So you know how to set up python on your desktop/laptop OS of choose. Now I bet you wish you could take your freshly wrote python scripts with you, well now you can. You will need to jailbreak your IOS device first , I’m not going to go into how to…
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A brief introduction – The hard way!
If It’s not hard, It’s not worth doing, right? This is what made me start to look at coding, the title of the book (Learning Python the hard way) looked like a challenge I was willing to take up. I’am not saying I took to it like a duck to water but it molded my mind to…