I loved my Watchy. It is a watch for geeks. I got a lot of fun out of it. But it has now stopped working. Probably the battery. But I made the decision not to replace the battery. In the spirit of adventure, I’ve opted for a new toy. I never took a photo of The full story here…
Pico Temperature Sensor Part 2
One year later and someone moved the project, sadly some of the wires fell out. So here is how to fix it when this happens again. Rewire the LCD The display has 4 outlets. The white on the image is physical pin 19 which we are going to connect indirectly to the Lcd pin marked The full story here…
Photo App – List Control
Now we have a spreadsheet I need to be able to show the results on the screen. Still using wxPython, going to make use of the list control. It doesn’t look great on Windows, but it’s functional and seems to have a lot of flexibility. Create a ListCtrl Add the list to the sizer This The full story here…
Photo App – Add a Module
As I start adding more code, I want to separate different functionality into different python files. In Python, you call these separate files modules. I need to learn how to use modules in Python.
wxPython User Interface
I’m not ecstatic about the 90 degree corners. The whole UI is a little bit dated. But life is too short. The background image needs tweaking, but I don’t have any colour tools on this computer so we’ll live with it for now.
wxPython Background Image Scaling
What is a user interface without a background image? Not only does it need an image, it also needs to automatically resize to fit, as the user resizes the user interface. The photo used here is my original photo. It is only for exercising the code. I don’t have any intention of using this exact The full story here…
Pico Temperature Sensor
My advent calendar didn’t have chocolate this year. Instead it had a Pico and lots of LEDs. Thanks to The Pi Hut for a very enjoyable project, and for the extensive guides which help a person get up and running with the Pico. All the code – micropython – in this post is provided by The full story here…
Photo Consolidation Project – Python Classes
The first attempt at wxPython was a good experience. However I don’t like putting a pile of code in a class’s init method, and the examples show drawing up the whole UI in the init. When I tried to refactor I came unstuck. Time to learn a little bit of Python theory.
Photo Consolidation Project – User Interface Libraries
We need a user interface where the user can enter the root folder that needs to be searched for photos. In time we can add features to it. But for now it needs to allow you to choose a folder, and have a button to launch the process.
Photo Consolidation Project – csv Prototype
Now it comes time to put what we have learnt into a single Python script. We will need to paste the root file path into the code, and call out the name and location of the result csv path. In the final version these two pieces of data will change. The root folder will be The full story here…