I was recently pleased and surprised to be contacted by the manufacturer of the StereoPi, a shop that I’ve had contact with a few times in the past and have always found competent and ambitious. They were interested in sending…
Getting started with the Tara e-con Systems Stereo Vision USB camera
I was lucky enough recently to receive a Tara stereo vision camera from e-con Systems for evaluation. The nifty camera, available currently for 249 USD from their website, is a pretty sweet package. Beyond being a small, fairly high throughput…
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Providing data access per HTTP using a ReST API in Django
At Full Stack Embedded we’re continuing our work on the weather server so that we can serve the observations we collect via ReST API. Read on to see the project’s progress… Or if you’ve ever asked yourself how to make…
Pythonic GRIB
If you work with meteorological data, at some point or another you will encounter the infamous GRIB. Once an acronym for “GRIdded Binary”, GRIB now stands for “General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary” form. The format is used for storing just…
Review: Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook
In its introduction, the Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook claims to skip the preamble and ignore pedagogy, letting you jump straight into text processing. Although it does skip the preamble, I would argue that this statement is…
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Review: Python for Secret Agents
If you’re looking for a fun, quick read that will show you some neat tricks for mashing up and manipulating data in Python, this is the right book for you. Python for Secret Agents has a wide variety of fun…
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String manipulation in bash
I spend a lot of my time working with, moving, modifying and renaming large amounts of files. Managing this much data is a pain if you do it manually, so I always end up automating as much of it as…
Review: C++ Multithreading Cookbook
The C++ Multithreading Cookbook should really be called The C++ Windows Multithreading Cookbook. The entire book is composed of tips and code examples that are intrinsically Windows, with only one short section that contains tips on multithreading in a platform…
Building a binary LED clock based on Raspberry Pi
As a small side project, I recently built a binary clock as a gift for a friend. Nothing says “I care” more than a homemade LED binary clock. This tutorial will walk you through the motions of setting up both…
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