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Continue reading →: Hello World (Xcode)Today I was (in a small way) involved in preparing an app (application) for deployment to Apple iOS devices. Even with my years of using Apple Macs, I have not really spent any time creating applications/programs for Macs past AppleScript / Apple Automator. With the chance to learn a new…
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Continue reading →: Creating a basic GUI window (Python)So far my Python programs have been very much text input based, i.e. users would need to use a command line to input values or progress in the program. This is okay for some users but the majority of modern computer users prefer using a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and…
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Continue reading →: NASA Imagery V1 (Python)
The next NASA open API that I wanted to play with is “Imagery” (https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#imagery) which retrieves a Landsat 8 image for a supplied location. I created a program but so far it is not working as expected. —— #!/bin/python3 #NASA Earth Imagery #www.geektechstuff.com #api.nasa.gov #Modules to import import json, requests…
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Continue reading →: Weather Forecast V3 (Python)When I started my Weather Forecast I decided that I wanted to ask the user for location and display a graphic. I’ve now accomplished this, my program asks for Longitude and Latitude and now displays a picture depending on the weather – currently cold and wet here in Manchester. ——…
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Continue reading →: Weather Forecast V2 (Python)Doh! I confused Kelvin units with Fahrenheit units which was totally throwing out the Celsius units. I’ve also started to modify the the first forecast to display more information, thinking of going down the “email me if the temp drops below…” route. — #!/bin/python3 #geektechstuff #print weather location for Manchester,…
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Continue reading →: Weather Forecast V1 (Python)Last night and this morning has seen a little bit of snow across Manchester (UK), spurring me on to create my weather checker in Python. I am making use of the open API that http://openweathermap.org provides and having signed up for a free API key I’ve got straight into creating…
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Continue reading →: NASA Curiosity Photo Viewer V1 (Python)Carrying on with playing with the open API data available from NASA I got to looking at the data available from the Curiosity rover that is currently on Mars. This project was a little different for me for two reasons; I wanted to include a IF command that checked the…
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Continue reading →: Tim Peake Soyuz Module UK TourTim Peake is a Europeon Space Agency (ESA) astronaut who on the 15th December 2015 began a 186 day mission called Principia aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Tim’s mission included taking 2 Raspberry Pi computers aboard the ISS and Tim is the first British ESA astronaut. During his time…
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Continue reading →: Getting Started With Arduino UnoDISCLAIMER: I volunteer/run the Code Club at MadLab. In 2014 I wanted to explore the world of micro technology and had to make a call between a Raspberry Pi 2 or an Arduino. I chose the Pi (and have since also purchased a Raspberry Pi 3), however at the back…
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Continue reading →: NASA NEO V3 (Python)4 days ago I decided to increase my Python knowledge by exploring JSON files. I found out that NASA give free access to data it collects (massive thank you to NASA!). I quickly signed up for an API key and decided that my first attempt at using the NASA data…
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