Anybody have any good python project ideas?
Mine is having an automatic greenhouse vent using a temperature monitor. It gets annoying to be at work and know your plants are currently overheating. With a microcontroller and a temperature gauge and an electric motor you could automate the greenhouses roof vents.
>good python project
why python? You can do cool stuff with any programming environment
It's the most accessible and user friendly and a lot of people know at least basic python. Also arduino has a bunch of easy to use python libraries.
>user friendly
Are you referring to that shit language that doesn't care if you misspell a variable and just creates a new one for you? Or if you forget to tell it that a variable is global so it makes a new one for you? All of this without any sort of warning? As much as C sucks it at least isn't "user friendly" in a stupid assed way.
So instead of a diy project thread, this is now a language debate thread that belongs in PrepHole. I'm out.
It's interpreted, yes.
The only one that was debating was you.
Many universities share their websites publicly, sometimes sharing zip files or GitHub links for assignments. You can try learning some data science or machine learning specialties there. Once you get comfier in Python, try picking up c/c++ if you want to work more with hardware.
Most machine learning involves python, so if for example you want to make a camera that recognizes objects and faces. It’s not a bad field to study…
Why did you ask the question then dumbass
>Most machine learning involves python, so if for example you want to make a camera that recognizes objects and faces. It’s not a bad field to study…
Having coyote or fox recognition on some chicken coop cameras seems like a very good idea. An alert plus a night vision optic on a crossbow could get rid of a pest quitetly even in a suburban area.
I never had problems with that especially as a beginner just starting out. You can still do type checks or hints or assertions if you like but nobody does because it's unneccesary for simple home projects and especially unneccesary for beginner projects.
Starting out with C/C++ is the best way to scare off a beginner. Even as an experienced developer the amount of software i've seen where it was worth it is so tiny. Sometimes the difference in developtment time is larger than the speed up you get with C it's not even funny anymore.
I even switched to micropython for some projects. Hardware is cheap nowadays while time is not.
i can tell that you dont have much experience with python because none of those things are even the real issues with the language
are you moronic? it doesn't do any of that. pic related.
>Why use the simple language for your simple problem when you can use the less abstract language for your simple problem.
That's not a python project anon...
That's a mechatronics project.
There's also adjustable mechanical/thermal vent openers, no electronics required.
Are you talking about the beeswax ones? They're absolutely shit and don't have anywhere near the right curve for opening at the right time
Property sensor monitor with log. The idea being that one script would monitor several different sensors placed around your property and log anything that trips the sensor. Bonus points for measuring level of activity. The end result is you know when a certain window, door or path was used or was opened as well as the time, date and the degree to which it was used.
>python
>microcontroller
ngmi
I have been doing simple projects like that with raspberry or orange pis and straight bash/shell script, which is a very simple but useful (if you use Linux) language but it's up to the task of controlling a PWM or GPIO output pin in response to a DS18B20 temperature sensor, can even readily log the temperature. Do you want to see some code?
PrepHole client with addon features such as games with automatic game board image generation
Isn't that just a thermostat? Why try to invent a novel, untested solution for a problem that's been solved for a long time?
I adapted a python script to interact with 'smart' TP-Link relay devices so I could turn them on and off from my server, instead of using their dumb app
Why did I have to scroll all the way to the latest comment for some sense while everyone else in this thread is trying to invent a goddamn thermostat like it’s never been done before?
You don’t need a microcontroller you can get a mechanical mercury stat and it doesn’t even need its own power.
>vents greenhouse automatically
>runs on a solar cellphone battery