Recurse Center, 2014-08-27

Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:51:30 -0400

I spent the whole of yesterday just working on the LED-bot.
Spent some time cleaning up meta-stuff about the project, making it a real package, adding a setup.py, added LICENSE & AUTHOR files, etc.
I found it really frustrating that there’s no good/standard way to remove duplication of information between pip’s requirements.txt and install_requires
We got the bot running on the Beagle Bone, but it turned out to be too slow. After some playing around with trying to get rid of Python for-loops, I was able to use PIL’s image.tobytes and some image cropping to get the data to be sent to the LEDs, and it sped up the display quite a bit.

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