Here’s a fun, little application using Python. In this post, I demonstrate drawing lines using just the arrow keys on the keyboard (up/down/left/right). The drawing direction is determined by the arrow key pressed as shown in the clip below: With each keypress a line is drawn in the direction of the arrow head, which is […]
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Interactive Text-To-Speech App with Presidents of USA (Python)
In this blog, I’ll discuss how to build an interactive lookup of data and have the results spoken back to you in human language. Specifically, I have a list of all POTUS to-date in a file (Excel, CSV, Text…they’ll work without any code design change). I want to be able to lookup the very first […]
Morse code translator (Python)
In one of my earlier posts, I described how to take text and generate Morse code. For details on that, see Text to Morse: codes and sound generation (Python). In this post, I’ll do the reverse. The application will take Morse code symbols and translate into English text. First, let’s start with a fun fact. […]
Text to Morse: codes and sound generation (Python)
Greetings! In this blog, I’ll discuss how to create a fully functional Python program that takes user inputs as letters, numbers, and symbols and turns them into International Morse codes, and also play the actual sound of the codes as transmitted at 550Hz (20WMP speed). This program is written in Python and while I’m not […]
“God” game—revisited (aka Pop game)
What seems like yonks ago, I wrote a fun, DOS based visual game in college that’s a simple simulation of population growth with some user-inputs to the game (i.e. playing “God”, hence the title). You can read about it here. But here, I’m sharing info about that game, revisited, with a different twist. I rewrote […]
Updated Story Download Page (FREE)
Here’s an updated online commerce page about Twisted Magic Tales with Emojis. Direct link to it This is a secure site from where you can download the ebook (with 7 stories, generated by Rob Deborot, the robot) for free as a PDF. When you click “I want this!” button, be sure to enter 0 (the […]
Analyzing 10 Years of Patriots Performance: NFL
Love em or hate em, New England Patriots is a team to reckon with. They’ve implemented numerous creative and suspicious internal strategies that most other teams would love to copy or at least understand. Well, I cannot expose those details as they’re not available anywhere. What is available however is their scores and stats. So, […]
Generating, plotting trajectory and…gamification (Excel)
Reminiscing the old tank game, I wanted to re-create a low-weight, low-code option of that simulation. The game depended on a canon (projectile) shot at your selected speed and angle to hit an enemy tank. The foundational formula is used in missile launch, sports, and many (you guessed it) military applications. Here, using the same […]
Some of my faves: Live-Streaming Underwater Cams
Here are some of my favorite live-streams of underwater cams. They range from sharks, to coral reef life, to manatees. Also, there’s a link for an hour-long meditation while watching the apex predator of the underwater. Enjoy! Coral City Camera. Miami (FL, USA) Live stream from an urban coral reef in FL. Great streaming and […]
Selected movies: searchable, sort-able for utility and fun
A list of selected movies (about 4,000 titles) I gleaned from IMDB and OMDB databases through their APIs. After downloading the raw data (some as CSVs, some as JSON payloads), I curated the data to make it simple to consume over the web, and hosted in the Cloud. This started out as a personal project […]