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Python in IoT and Robotics

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:48:05 +0000

Python in IoT and Robotics

Conference Talk Link: https://2025.pyconfhyd.org/speakers/harsh-mittal

Github Link: https://github.com/bytesByHarsh/PyConfHyd2025

Introduction

Imagine a world where your toaster chats with your coffee machine about the perfect brew temperature, or where a fleet of drones gossip about their battery levels and GPS coordinates as they fly around. Welcome to the realm of IoT and robotics, where devices are not only smart—they’re downright social! In my recent talk, “Python in IoT & Robotics: Scalable Backend Solutions for Connected Systems,” I dove into how Python serves...

Build Text Editor Using Python

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 23:48:05 +0000

Build Text Editor Using Python

Introduction

Throughout your career or daily life, you’ve likely used various text editors—but have you ever thought about creating one yourself? If the answer is yes, then you’re in the right place! Let’s dive in and explore the process of building a text editor from scratch using Python, learning valuable programming concepts along the way.

This application was created for PyCon 2023 India Young Learner’s Workshop: Link

Video Tutorial

Github Link: https://github.com/bytesByHarsh/youtubeProjects/tree/master/PyQt/pythonTextEditor

Setup...

Game Development

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:48:05 +0000

PyCon 2023 - Young Learners Workshop

What is the Young Learners Workshop (YLW)?

The Young Learners Workshop (YLW) is an initiative designed to promote code literacy among school students through the Python programming language. By using engaging hardware, such as Raspberry Pi devices, YLW provides a hands-on learning experience that fosters programming, communication, and technology skills.

This workshop offers a unique opportunity for students and teachers to collaborate and learn from one another, as well as from the Indian Python community. Participants come together from various schools to be part of the PyCon India conference, a hub for...

Qt Android Deployment

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 12:48:05 +0000

Qt Android Deployment

This tutorial will be focused on showing the steps to deploy your app on any Android device using Qt. It is not necessary to write the code in QML to do this.

Note: It will help if a layout is provided so that screen dimensions will be automatically taken care.

Video Tutorial

App Download Link: https://sourceforge.net/p/multicopypaste/wiki/Home/

Github Link: https://github.com/bytesByHarsh/multiCopyPaste

Android Installation

For Android installation, you can refer to here:...

Introduction To FastAPI

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 12:48:05 +0000

FastAPI

FastAPI is a Web framework for developing RESTful APIs in Python. FastAPI is based on Pydantic and type hints to validate, serialize, and deserialize data, and automatically auto-generate OpenAPI documents.

Checkout This YouTube Video For more details:

Install Python Libraries

Learn to setup Virtual Env: Link

Conda Environment

Method 1 - Anaconda Navigator

This will create conda environment with the name backend...

Leveraging Python In Robotics

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 12:48:05 +0000

This talk was part of HydPy Meetup

Link: https://www.meetup.com/hydpygroup/events/289786328/

Youtube: Link

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Link Of Repositories:

Please go through all...

Difference Between is and ==

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:48:05 +0000

Difference Between is and ==

This is a simple tutorial of when to use is and == in Python

Check out this YouTube link for more details:

Definition

== is for value equality. It’s used to know if two objects have the same value.

is is for reference equality. It’s used to know if two references refer (or point) to the same object, i.e if they’re...

ROS Autonomous Navigation

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 12:48:05 +0000

Youtube Video

Set up workspace

git clone https://github.com/bytesByHarsh/Robotics_ws/ cd Robotics_ws git submodule update --init --recursive catkin_make source devel/setup.sh 

Note: Do not add Robotics_ws in your catkin_ws/src

I am just using the folder name Robotics_ws instead of catkin_ws

Atom Robot

roslaunch atom world.launch

...

ROS2 Foxy Installation With ROS1

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:48:05 +0000

Video Tutorial

Installation

Official Documentation can be found here: Link

Run the following commands in your terminal:

locale # check for UTF-8 sudo apt update && sudo apt install locales sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8 sudo update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 locale # verify settings apt-cache policy | grep universe 

If following line not there

...

Python Virtual Environment

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:48:05 +0000

Creating Virtual Environment using PIP

Youtube Video

PIP Setup

For creating virtual environment you will require pip

Check if pip is installed:

pip --version pip3 --version

If it is not installed then you can install using:

sudo apt install python3-pip

Install Virtualenv

pip3 install virtualenv pip3 install virtualenvwrapper

Check virtualenv:

Getting started with VS Code

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 12:48:05 +0000

For nearly two years, I relied on Sublime Text for all my coding needs, whether working with C/C++ or Python. It remains my go-to text editor for quick edits due to its lightweight and user-friendly nature. However, as I began working with larger codebase and developing my own SDKs, I decided to make the switch to Visual Studio Code (VS Code).

Though I had always intended to use VS Code, I hadn’t made the transition until recently. After six months of using it, I can certainly see why it’s so popular. The extensive range of extensions and their seamless...

Automate Painting using Python

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:48:05 +0000

Like a lot of people, I am not so good at drawing sketches, that was my motivation to create this software so that I can sketch the basic version of any image of my choice in any software that I want.

This software is capable of loading any type of image and then we can dynamically process it for the level of details we want. Currently, the image processing is at a very basic level but I intend to upgrade it in the future.

Check out the link below for the tutorial: