It came to my attention today that a workshop took place in Italy a while ago on Arduino/Ikea lamps. This was an Arduino Workshop, part of the Torino Design Week. Event Description: http://arduino-tdw-2009.eventbrite.com/ Video on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/8559277 Arduino Code: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1263217950/ Blog post: http://www.alluvionemediatica.it/Blog/tabid/59/entryid/25/Default.aspx My original Arduino/Ikea lamp post was used quite a bit. One of […]
Month: April 2010
Gnuplot is a great command line tool that creates very quickly graphs from data files. The official site of Gnuplot is: http://www.gnuplot.info/ . To see examples of graphs produced by Gnuplot, you should have a look here: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.4/. Using python and gnuplot, I produced approx 80 graphs similar to the one below, that fitted nicely […]
You can find a lot of tutorials on Python, but these is a pretty good one (actually 7) from Nick Parlante from GoogleDevelopers on youTube – here is the link to the first one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk. This is a really a great tutorial for beginners. The book I’m using as my main python textbook (and would […]
O2, the UK mobile phone operator had an amazing offer a few days ago: they were selling their O2 Joggler for £49.99. This little gadget, with a touchscreen, wifi and an intel atom processor, wasn’t really a best seller for your average cosumer and O2 ended up selling them at a loss. I picked one […]
This Easter bank holiday, I spent some time working on a little problem I have at work with a simulation I’m writing in Python. It’s basically a Monte-Carlo simulation which is performing billions of calculations. To be more exact, the simulation is a script that performs about half a million of calculations and it has […]