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,…
BerliOS is dead, SimuVis still on hold
BerliOS will close its services at the end of this year. The development of SimuVis was hosted there. Since my activities with SimuVis are already on hold, I decided not to move to another hosting platform. When I find the time and motivation for the development of SimuVis I may move to GitHub.
DyMat | Reading Modelica results with python
The simple module has turned into a complete python package including a script, documentation and more output options. This package is released under the BSD License. The development is hosted on github.com, feel free to contribute! Project homepage: http://www.j-raedler.de/projects/DyMat Development hosting: https://github.com/jraedler/DyMat Highlights: documentation (well, some …) command-line script DyMatExport export to CSV, Gnuplot, MATLAB…
Polygon | new package 3.0.4a
The source package for Polygon 3.0.4 was missing a lot of files. This was caused by a bug in python’s setuptools package. I packaged a new file for version 3.0.4a . The source code was not changed but the contents should be complete now. Sorry for any problems you had with this issue!
DyMat.py used in LBLs Modelica Buildings Library
My python module DyMat.py will now be part of free Modelica Library for Building Energy and Control Systems developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The module may be used under the terms of the Modelica License 2. I will add the copyright notice and license information to the file soon.
Polygon | 2.0.4 & 3.0.4
New versions of my python package Polygon have been released today for python 2 and python 3. The source can be checked out from https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/polygon/tags/2.0.4/ and https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/polygon/tags/3.0.4/ , binary packages will follow in the next days. The changes include: added a function Utils.gpfInfo() to check files for the number of contours, holes and points and…
Polygon used in new VPython
I’m glad to see that the Polygon package is now used by the popular VPython software to support the creation of the new extrusion objects. The VPython authors even made a special license agreement that allows the use of GPC (and thus Polygon) free of charge for every purpose as part of the VPython distribution:…
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