Category Archives: code
Build your own ioGun!
I apologize for what will effectively be a brain dump post, but a new friend of mine from the hackaday forums is getting started on his own accelerometer controlled system and I wanted to see if I could save him … Continue reading
Posted in code, hardware, inspiration, iobridge, opensource, python
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Taking (and keeping) your temperature!
I swear I don’t have a penchant for medical terminology but this ioBridge stuff is making me feel like that time I stayed at a Holiday Inn… so refreshing, I think I could perform surgery! After my heart hacks (see … Continue reading
Posted in code, Google, hardware, iobridge, python, visualization
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Bridge to my heart…
Yesterday I talked quickly about my new ioBridge module and how excited I was to get started with it! As I mentioned, my real goal is to bring physical interactions into the digital world and I had a heartbreakingly simple … Continue reading
Posted in code, hardware, iobridge, technology, twitter
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My least favorite part of JSON…
I love how simple the JSON spec is. I never enjoyed reading through all the XML closures, etc. JSON just feels more programming so you don’t have to shift your brain as much as you do with XML. However, I … Continue reading
Posted in code, frustration, uncategorized
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Training Neural Nets with CouchDB – part 3
Hopefully you’ve been following parts 1 and 2 and I didn’t leave anyone too confused by my approach. Please visit my posts for a far better recap then I can provide here (DRY); In part 1, I introduced the overall … Continue reading
Training Neural Nets with CouchDB – part 2
It’s always nice to have a little encouragement especially when trying to work through some tough posts. I really prefer white boards and pictures but I find these too hard to make for blogging so I try to let the … Continue reading
Training Neural Nets with CouchDB – part 1
My goal for this post is a bit technical and I’ll try warping both an artificial neural net, as well as my biological one, around an exploration of CouchDB, so read on if appropriate to your interests. As you may … Continue reading
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Quick couchdb reminders
Using your browser to access the admin interface; http://192.168.1.99:5984/_utils/ Looking at a view for a specific database with your browser. In this case the database is “stock_values” and the view is “all_stocks” (yes you need the “_view” and the “all” … Continue reading
One bit of Python I’ll never get…
>>> “hello”[2:4] ‘ll’ >>> “hello”[2:] ‘llo’ >>> “hello”[:4] ‘hell’ Do any of those not make sense to you? Here’s how I see it, and my confusion; “hello” represents a 5 character string… and indexing starts at 0, something most programmers … Continue reading
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What if stocks were movies?
As you’ve seen from my previous posts, I’ve been playing with python, couchdb and been working my way through the “Programming Collective Intelligence” book. However, what I haven’t been talking about much is what I’ve actually been doing with it! … Continue reading
Posted in code, python, visualization
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