Week 17 - Interface and Application Programming

In this weeks assignment, we will use the board from week 14, input devices and improve the data display while communicating with a computer. My board has a photodarlington and I will use python for my interface and application programming.

Neil mentioned a lot of applications, which already have a python support.
I have installed tkinter ad I will play around with its features. Frame is a container for other widgets. I started to install tkinter, matplotlib, numpy and so on before I found SciPy, where all this nice packages are wrapped up in one install. To use my windows machine, I have installed Anaconda, which contains a python version and the SciPy package. I am trying to get an real time chart from my data readings. After spending a while on this, I found out, that Maurice Op de Beek from Fab Lab Amsterdam did the same thing in the Fab Academy 2013! Here is his page about interfaces. I uploaded his python script and figured out, how it works.

I started also to set up a kind of moving bars with Neils script. I am still working on this, sioince I am having problems, getting the right geometry and sensitivity of the bars.

Go to top