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    Arduino Temp Monitor : Webserver

    Phase 2: Temperature monitoring logged on webserver. [sourcecode language="c"] /* Web Server A simple web server that shows the temperature using an Arduino Wiznet Ethernet shield. Parts list: 10k Thermistor Breadboard/Veroboard 10k resistor Arduino ( I use UNO) Arduino Wiznet Ethernet shield The Thermistor Circuit: AREF---+3.3V----Therm----A0(Arduino)----10k res---> Gnd Better Readings: When doing analog readings, especially with a 'noisy' board like the arduino, we suggest two tricks to improve results. One... [Read More]

    Arduino Temp monitor : 16x2 LCD

    Phase 1:I have been procrastinating on creating a home automation system until I decided to dedicate a few of my hours to this project. I have decided to use an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi combination. The idea is to have the Arduino running all ADC calculations and sensors as the Pi is not equipped with an ADC, and use the Pi as logger and dashboard using apache2/graphite or something... [Read More]
    Tags: LCD thermistor

    Memory - Card game

    I have been spending quite some time learning python for the past few months from text processing to game development using simplegui. And I must say for a person that always thought in C, I find Python completely straight forward and an easy but high level language. As my journey to Python continues, This weeks project was a memory game. Although it does have a couple of bugs in it,... [Read More]

    Install and configure NFS server on Ubuntu for serving files

    When it comes to serving media content within your local network, a NFS share is way better than Samba/CIFS share in terms of speed and resource usage. If you have a XBMC box to watch TV shows and movies from a central server then a Network File System (NFS) share should be the choice for a media source. It only takes a few minutes to install and configure NFS server... [Read More]

    script to generate BASH scripts

    I create scripts on a day to day basis, and I eventually got bored of manually creating scripts from initial phase everytime, hence this master of scripts. [sourcecode language="bash" wraplines="false" collapse="false"] #!/bin/bash # BASH script to generate BASH scripts # Created by Mpho Mphego echo "What do you want to call your BASH script?" read RESPONSE echo "#!/bin/bash" | tee ~/tmp/$RESPONSE.sh echo "# Filename:$RESPONSE.sh" | tee -a ~/tmp/$RESPONSE.sh echo "#... [Read More]
    Tags: pygame python

    1972 Pong "python"

    That feeling when, your program compiles and runs like it should... So last week, was a pong game challenge, need I say more. Here goes nothing. [sourcecode language="python" wraplines="false" collapse="false"] #http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_5WtyGnsPgb_0.py # Implementation of classic arcade game Pong try: import simplegui except: import SimpleGUICS2Pygame.simpleguics2pygame as simplegui # To run simplegui in idle python, install SimpleGUICS2Pygame module # download module : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SimpleGUICS2Pygame import random # initialize globals - pos and vel... [Read More]
    Tags: python

    Stopwatch "python"

    Well as for this week, we were to create some sort of stopwatch game. Player gets a point when, they hit "stop" button if it stops on seconds. A bit even more trickier, but challenge was accepted and completed...Hell Yeah. [sourcecode language="python" wraplines="false" collapse="false"] #http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_TSo5mURks3_2.py #http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_TSo5mURks3_3.py #or http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_nJvMd8w50P_0.py # Mini-project #3 - "Stopwatch: The Game" # Created by Mpho "!nerd" Mphego - Marion Island SANSA Engineer 2014-2015 # # 'Introduction... [Read More]
    Tags: python

    Guess the number [python]

    The following weeks mini-project was starting to get a bit trickier. A simple game called, "Guess the number" [sourcecode language="python" wraplines="false" collapse="false"] # http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_p561LbO9KO_0.py # http://www.codeskulptor.org/#user38_SeTv0Tz7E7nAlil_11.py # Mini-project #2 - "Guess the number game" # Created by Mpho "!nerd" Mphego - Marion Island SANSA Engineer 2014-2015 # # 'Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python' Course # RICE University - https://class.coursera.org/interactivepython-005 # by Joe Warren, John Greiner, Stephen Wong, Scott Rixner... [Read More]
    Tags: python

    setting up python-simplegui library

    CodeSkulptor is a web-based python compiler/interpreter, That I have been using for the Interactive Python course offered on Coursera . And being were I am now, which is in Marion Island - our internet can be so slow at times so I resulted on running my python codes on my local machine not needing to go to CodeSkulptor. I had troubles importing simplegui library, So after vigorous google searches I finally... [Read More]
    Tags: linux python