The Internet of Things

Wunderbar. A whole bunch of nicely integrated data collection modules. I prefer to hack around with Arduino. I'm not sure why -- perhaps it's the lure of building approximately from scratch. But this is very cool. No soldering. Just start gathering data. I have a half-built Arduino-based device to measure the …

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Chapters to Edit: What do I do instead?

I'm starting to get chapters back from the technical reviewers. This is an important part of the writing process: correcting my mistakes and clarifying things that confused the reviewers.

Packt has had a uniformly excellent cadre of technical reviewers. At this point, I've worked with something like a dozen people …

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Wait, there's more Python goodness from Packt

This just in...

Here's a link to the actual Python Week page, with all the deals there for the week: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/pythonweek

They also have a week of free Python books too, which change daily: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning/

Feel free to …

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Today's Milestone: Refactoring and Django Migrations

Once upon a time, when today's old folks were young, we'd debate the two project strategies: Hard Part Do Later (HPDL) vs. Hard Part First (HPF).

The HPDL folks argued that you could pick away at the hard part until -- eventually -- it wasn't hard any more. This doesn't often work …

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Python Tutor

The core visualization tool (pythontutor.com) can be helpful for many people. The shared environments seem like a cool idea, also, but I don't have any specific comments on the other tools.
While this looks very cool, I'm not a …
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Audio Synth [Updated]

I learned about synthesizers in the '70's using a Moog analog device. Epic coolness.
Nowadays, everything is digital. We use wave tables and (relatively) simple additive synth techniques.
I made the mistake of reading about Arduino wave table synthesis:
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