What you see below is a little program I have worked on over the last week or so. It does not look like much, but there is quite a bit under the hood. The GUI is built with something called PySide which is an open source version of the wonderful C++ Qt libraries in a Python wrapper. It is amazing how easy it is to use. I knew nothing about it less than a week ago. In addition, I built a C++ capture library based on OpenCV (I will switch to camera specific libraries when we decide what camera we want to use for our project). I then used SWIG to add a Python wrapper around the library. I write this, not because I think it is particularly interesting to anyone, but because I am having a great time learning some new things, there appears to be a lot more coming and it will be good to remember what a good time I had doing it a few years from now.
You might notice that I got a little jump on No Shave November. I decided to go with the beard, partly because I have been away from home quite a bit over the last month, so Lorena has not been able to wrestle me down and shave it all off. If I can just last until Thanksgiving…
Betty Blonde #212 – 05/08/2009
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Sounds like a fun project – and I like the beard! Dayton (youngest son) asked me to grow it out on October so I got a little jump start too. I did some digging into the old Visual FoxPro database I wrote for Dick several years ago. We are planning some upgrades and improvements – its fun to refresh old projects like that.
It certainly is! We HAVE to find something to do together. I actually might get to do both Android and Arduino programming on this one. Life is good. Now, if only I could move out west!