on web development.
Trouble at t’LeedsDataMill: Oompah.py ~ Big Data meets Big Brass (Nicholas Tollervey & Simon Davy)
Leeds data mill – hackers of open data
Played with footfall data represented as music
Python created a Lilypod file –
=> 7am was a fav Tubor section
Much jokes of a Dubstep/D&B version – When’s the next album out – lol
Notes taken during a talk given by Ben Nutall at PyConUK.
Book: Learning Python with Raspberry Pi, Alex Bradbury and Ben Everard.
Book: Adventures in Raspberry Pi – Carrie Anne Philbin
Experience: open a rasp pi: have a desktop, can open idle
Hardware: Now 40 GPIO pins on B+, same price
Look at:
RPi.GPIO
Add on camera available, 10MP??
Look at “import picamera”
– nice docs
Ideas:
Kids track to take photos wired button to board, took photos – based on a stock motion Lego scene
Another idea: Cat detector – also spray with water, then a video was sent to you tube ;)
Robotics – mini maker stuff -like a pi on wheels
Look at kick start for kit style projects
Free resources on their web site
Minecraft PI edition – limited installed by default
Energenie – remote switches for plug sockets can control via python/raspberry pi
sous-vide cooking – used to monitor temparture, turn off/on cooker – He tried the steak – Yum!
@ben_nuttall
bennuttall @ github
Suggestions:
Pi Phone – is a proof of concept – need for proper open smart phone – not a Python project
Ans: can by the developer kit for the compute module for the R Pi
Also have a PiPad – a screen with a pi in it
*) What’s after B+
512M RAM
4 USB ports, etc
Continue developing the hardware
Just realised
Look at PiFi or WiPi <-
Notes taken during session at PyCon UK.
Damien George, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, has rewritten Python to be optimised for running on a micro controller. For example, the small computers that you might find in your washing machine, sometimes only have 64kb of RAM, so are generally controlled by programs written in C.
MicroPython is implemented on Python 3 and includes the usual Python features, such as:
Uses 528 bytes of RAM at standing and MicroPython will run on various operating systems as well as bare metal.
There are some differences, like not redefining built-ins functions and Micro Python uses garbage collection. For more information https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/Differences
The open source project at: http://github.com/micropython has been well received with over 1200 stars and 170 forks.
More information: http://micropython.org/
As always an entertaining speaker. Harry gave us a world wind tour of the code related to a end of life, open source, project https://github.com/pythonanywhere/dirigible-spreadsheet
He also encouraged any self respecting Pythonista to sign up and register for an account at www.pythonanywhere.com.
Tip: Did you know you could add a name space to eval commands, to limit their scope.