Sometimes – rarely – you need to remove a few bytes from one end of a file. ere’s a quick way of doing it with the UNIX tool dd, so you don’t have to write your own program for it.
Running a Tor relay on a Raspberry Pi
The Onion Relay (Tor) is an essentially important piece of infrastructure that helps keep the Internet free. It’s a system of relays that allow users to access the Internet by hopping through several different connections, thus bypassing firewalls and concealing…
Autodocumentation with sphinx and git hooks
When you start programming, you never putting thought into how the program should run. Most people do neglect putting enough thought into the documentation, though. If you’re like me, you’ve experienced the difficulty of trying to understand and maintain software…
Optimizing point cloud production from stereo photos by tuning the block matcher
In this last post in my series on using a homemade stereo camera to produce 3d point clouds, I’ll show you how to improve your 3d point clouds in order to get optimal results. I’ll also show you where your…
Producing 3D point clouds with a stereo camera in OpenCV
In my last posts, I showed you how to build a stereo camera, calibrate it and tune a block matching algorithm to produce disparity maps. The code is written in Python in order to make it easy to understand and…
Extracting files from git into their own repository
Sometimes you’ve been working on a repository and you realize that you want to extract some of its files into a separate repository, e.g. in order to separate the development of one submodule from the main library’s. Of course you…
Building an interactive GUI with OpenCV
OpenCV is great for all kinds of computer vision tasks. Many of these can run in a fully automated fashion, where parameters for the CV algorithms are provided by the user before the program begins or can be determined algorithmically…
Calibrating a stereo camera with Python
In my last post I showed how to build a stereo camera and work with it comfortably Python as a cohesive object. Today I’ll show you how to calibrate the stereo pair so that you can rectify pictures taken with…
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Building and calibrating a stereo camera with OpenCV (<50€)
I’ve decided to try my hand at 3D reconstruction using a stereo camera. There are a few good sets of instructions on how to get started with this. I decided to take some heavy inspiration from them and will be…
Watching Netflix natively in Linux (OpenSUSE)
So you love Linux but you want to watch Netflix? That used to be a big problem, but it’s not any more. I’ve found two main solutions on different blogs which required a few compromises. Those were: Watch Netflix in…
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