SunnyWebBox | python module for RPC
The main building of the UdK Berlin now has a solar plant (photovoltaic) mounted on the roof. It’s equipped with a monitoring system: a Sunny WebBox made by SMA Solar Technology. This box offers browser-based access to the realtime data and a RPC system (remote preocedure calls). Although documentation exists, it was not easy to [...]
DyMat | version 0.5 reads more file formats
Version 0.5 of my package DyMat has been released. Read access to different file structures has been implemented. The new version will be able to read most mat files written by dymola. DyMat should still be handled as beta software, it may have some bugs!
Dymolas different mat file formats – the Aclass quest
When playing a bit with the result files of Dymola 2012 I discovered an strange behaviour in the structure of the saved mat-files. Until now I’ve seen three variants of these files: The format of the regular result files saved automatically by the simulation process. This format is also used by OpenModelica and can be [...]
Binary toy for the Museum of Technology, Berlin
My first larger project using the Arduino platform is an exhibit for the German Museum of Technology in Berlin. It will be shown in the Konrad Zuse exhibition. The device shows a random number (left display). By activating the correct bits in a binary representation (center display) the visitor has to assemble this number (right [...]
Polygon development moves to GitHub
The development of the python package Polygon was moved to github. I created two projects for the code for python 2 and 3. The project pages at origo.ethz.ch will be closed soon. The information was updated at pypi.python.org, but no code was changed yet. Since there are no known bugs and feature requests right now, [...]