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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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Remote firework launcher
For a few years of lighting firework the old-fashioned/dangerous way I wanted to have a way to remotely set off fireworks (safely). After seeing a few different people using the heating element out of a car cigarette lighter. I took the cigarette lighter out of my car and pulled it apart. Here’s what I found inside, all…
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Pumpkin – fake candle LED replacement
After getting some inspiration from Hackaday I thought I would have a go at making a LED board to replace the normal candle you put in your pumpkin. A quick Google search bought me to this Instrucables post which seams like the simplest code to get the job done. Well why not stop there so I…
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Hacking candy crush for fun and profit (IOS jailbreak required)
Ever wanted to get past that candy crush level you have been stuck on for days/weeks, here is your chance. All you need is a jailbroken iPhone/iPad, lets get started. How to edit the moves The first thing your going to have to do is install ifile from the cydia store. The free/trial version will…
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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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Samba mobile “free data” (UK)
Do you have a 3G based table or a 3G dongle that you use but don’t use that offten. You might want to try out samba mobile. People will tell you you can’t get nothing for free these days but this is pretty close. Sign up for an account and order a sim card which is normally…
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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…