Category Archives: General

Reading Arexx TL-500 with Python on Linux – Part II

My first script was changed a little bit to get nicer output. It can now log the raw data received from the Arexx unit (in hexadecimal form) and uses separate log files for the sensors. Sensor n......

Using KDE’s kwallet with Firefox/Iceweasel

Konqueror is a good browser, but sometimes you need to use Firefox (called Iceweasel on Debian). I discovered a plugin to let FF store its passwords in kwallet, but after installation of the plu......

Reading data from the Arexx TL-500 on Linux

Some days ago I was looking for a temperature monitoring solution for some rooms and 19"-racks at the university. The Arexx TL-500 looked promising and I bought it. Unfortunately there are only ......

processing | poor man’s evolution

This is an example from my generative design class of the digi-pro project. Genetic or evolutionary approaches are used to solve a wide range of problems with the computer. Many algorithms try t......

processing | Koch-curve

This is another small demo from my generative design class of the digi-pro project. It draws a Koch curve using a recursive algorithm at variable depth. The horizontal mouse position is used for......

processing | greatest common divisor

This is a small demo from my generative design class of the digi-pro project. It uses the euklidean algorithm to compute the greatest common divisor (GCD, GGT in german ) of two numbers. The mou......

Janosch

Janosch was born on 17.06.2010 at 21:12. He has a weight of 4010g and  a length of 56 cm. View pictures here (password required).

Triangle | 1.0

The triangulation module for python based on Jonathan Richard Shewchuk's program Triangle was updated. It should work with recent versions of python 2.x now.

XMarshaL | 1.0

My pickling/marshalling module for python was updated to work with recent python 2.x installations.

ncDataReader2 | 2.2.0

A new release of ncDataReader2 is out. Changes include: switched from autoconf to cmake tested to compile on Linux, Windows and MacOS the easy API (EA) was completed EA works now with Modelica ......