Python

Using AWS lambda to run python scripts instead of local cron

It’s often useful to set certain scripts to run regularly, or in response to some event. There are some websites that help you do this such as Zapier or IFTTT which integrate with other online services. However, they cost money,… Continue Reading →

2016/07/20

Berry Bot

Recently I got the chance to give a bit of an introduction to python and physical computing on the Raspberry Pi to some kids so I thought a robot would be a fun thing to use as a demonstration. The… Continue Reading →

2016/05/08

Weather Monitoring – Part 1 – with ThingSpeak and Slack

Weather Monitoring – Part 1 – This post Weather Monitoring – Part 2 – Air Quality sensing with Shinyei PPD42NS Where I live at the moment is very dry and after buying a humidifier I decided to use my… Continue Reading →

2016/03/12

Flask – An Introduction to python web apps

After discovering the python programming language from the Raspberry Pi, it turns out it can be used for many different purposes, one of these being to create web based apps. A web app is a website that actually does something… Continue Reading →

2016/03/05

Make a Next Bus LCD with TfL’s Web API

One of the cool things about web APIs (see my post for what a web API is) is that useful data is made available for you to hack around with. I found out that Transport for London has an API… Continue Reading →

2016/02/27

What is an web API and what can I do with it?

API stands for Application Programming Interface, and web APIs allow you to programmatically interface with a web resource using the HTTP protocol (the same as you use in your web browser). 1. Let’s explain that geek-speak with an example from… Continue Reading →

2016/02/20

Celery – a python task queue for long jobs

Running python tasks in the background In the past few months I’ve built a couple of web apps using python and flask, and the main task of the programs takes significant time to run. The web app for my client… Continue Reading →

2016/02/15

Talk Python to me podcast

I recently found a great podcast on Python, called Talk Python to me: https://talkpython.fm/. I’d treid a couple of other but either it was a one person show or expected you to be sat at your computer coding alongside. This… Continue Reading →

2016/02/11

Multiple User Roles – python flask

I’ve been creating a python-flask web app based on miguel grinbergs excellent tutorial. It’s not a blog, more of an online ordering system, but needs user and admin access, i.e. different options available for different users, which is not included in… Continue Reading →

2015/11/27

s3 bucket size using python

After getting the command line interface for s3 working on the Raspberry Pi, I decided I actually needed something a bit more automatic, so I wrote a python script to automatically get s3 bucket sizes and send out an email… Continue Reading →

2015/03/14

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