So a just before Christmas I was talking to a friend of mine (mahblog.uk), and we were both thinking that it would be a great idea to make a open source lab equipment, and that most of the things we use in the lab could be easily 3d printed. This then as all such conversations … [Read more…]
I have decided that I will start making the shuffle duck a reality, and as such I have made some progress towards setting it up. My plan is to have a raspberry pi connected to a hifi, an external hard drive, a cd drive and of course an rfid reader. I’m still undecided as to … [Read more…]
The twitter Monitor project is slowly starting to come to get to a usable point, and now zips up the folder containing the tweets and filtered results and can now email these results to who ever would like them. To zip the folder up I have used the subprocess library to run a command line … [Read more…]
This morning I was taking a break from work and watched the following video And thought to myself, how would I go about doing something like that in python. Normally I dont do much in the way of graphics (beyond using things like matplotlib to make a pretty graph) so thought this would be a … [Read more…]
Up until now we have been exclusively dealing with 3D objects, and putting them together, normally this is enough, but some objetcs are easier to create in 2D first. In 2D we have 3 main primative objects, circles, squares and text. Lets first discuss text as this is the least useful of the primative objects … [Read more…]
So in the last update we had a program that listened to twitter and then displayed all the tweets that matched the search terms. Now at that point it want much better than going to twitter and searching for all of your search terms and reading, and I dont know about you but I don’t … [Read more…]
I admit that I didn’t know about these transformations until today, but i now think they are really useful. Lets start with minkowski(){…}, this transformation takes two objects, and the result is to create the shape formed when you role one object around the other. This is probably best shown with an example, lets say … [Read more…]
There is still a way to go but so far in my attempt to write a twitter monitoring program I have managed to get a program to listen to the twitter feed for a list of keywords, and summarise them after the program exits. So lets walk through this section by section (my apologies for … [Read more…]
The Idea behind TwitterMonitor will be access the public twitter feed, and listen for key words, these words will then be added to a list and at the end of a specified time frame hopefully then email a summary of the matching tweets to the user. So lets say you are interested in following updates … [Read more…]
So far i have introduced you to enough that with patience and practice you could make just about anything, however sometimes you want to work smarter not harder. To do this we will look at how to use OpenSCAD more like a programing language in order to do things a little smarter. Lets start with … [Read more…]