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…
Stackable
Make it good. Make it stackable.
Remove bytes from one end of a file
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.
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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…
