2023-09-11 17:39
Hello! Today I have released new digital editions of my PyQt5, PyQt6, PySide2 and PySide6 book Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt.
PyQt6 Book 5th Edition, Create GUI Applications w… Read More
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2023-09-11 17:39
Programming screencasts are a popular way to teach programming and demo tools. Typically people will open up their favorite editor and record themselves tapping away. But this has a few prob… Read More
2023-09-11 17:39
Hello! Today I have released the first PyQt6 edition of my book Create GUI Applications, with Python & Qt6.
This update follows the 4th Edition of the PyQt5 book updating all the code ex… Read More
2023-09-11 17:39
Setting up a working development environment is the first step for any project. Your development environment setup will determine how easy it is to develop and maintain your projects over ti… Read More
2023-09-11 17:39
Using a version control system (VCS) is crucial for any software development project. These systems allow developers to track changes to the project's codebase over time, removing the need t… Read More
2023-09-11 17:39
MicroPython is an implementation of the Python 3 programming language, optimized to run on microcontrollers. It's one of the options available for programming your Raspberry Pi Pico and a ni… Read More
2023-09-11 17:39
Hello! This morning I released the first Qt6 edition of my PySide book Create GUI Applications, with Python & Qt6.
This update follows the 4th Edition of the PySide2 book updating all th… Read More
2023-09-11 17:39
Python supports object-oriented programming (OOP) through classes, which allow you to bundle data and behavior in a single entity. Python classes allow you to quickly model concepts by creat… Read More
2023-09-11 17:39
I am very happy to announce that my Python GUI programming book
Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6 / PyQt6 Edition is now available
in Korean from Acorn Publishing
It's more than… Read More
2023-09-11 17:39
Hello! With the release of Qt6 versions of PyQt and PySide the course was getting a little crowded. So, today I've split the PySide tutorials into their own standalone PySide2 course and PyS… Read More
2022-01-26 11:00
Programming screencasts are a popular way to teach programming and demo tools. Typically people will open up their favorite editor and record themselves tapping away. But this has a few prob… Read More
2021-06-23 07:00
In the previous tutorial we looked at how you can build custom widgets with PySide.
The widget we built used a combination of layouts, nested widgets
and a simple QPainter canvas to create a… Read More
2021-06-07 11:00
In previous tutorials we've used the Qt Widgets API for building our applications. This has been the standard method for building applications since Qt was first developed. However, Qt provi… Read More
2021-05-14 07:00
Hello! With the release of Qt6 versions of PyQt and PySide the course was getting a little crowded. So, today I've split the PySide tutorials into their own standalone PySide course.
The tut… Read More
2021-05-13 12:00
PySide, also known as Qt for Python, is a Python library for creating GUI applications using the Qt toolkit.
PySide is the official binding for Qt on Python and is now developed by The Qt Co… Read More
2021-04-27 11:00
In the previous tutorial we implemented a basic QML clock application using Python code to get the current time, format it into a string and send that through to our QML layout for display u… Read More
2021-04-09 15:00
Hello! Today I have released the first PyQt6 edition of my book Create GUI Applications, with Python & Qt6.
This update follows the 4th Qt5 Edition of my PyQt book updating all the code… Read More
2021-04-07 11:00
In previous tutorials we've used the Qt Widgets API for building our applications. This has been the standard method for building applications since Qt was first developed. However, Qt provi… Read More
2021-03-15 07:00
Hello! This morning I released the first Qt6 edition of my PySide book Create GUI Applications, with Python & Qt6.
This update follows the 4th Edition of the PySide book updating all the… Read More
2021-03-12 18:00
There is a new version of Qt (version 6) and with it new versions of PyQt and PySide -- now named PyQt6 & PySide6 respectively. In preparation for the Qt6 editions of my PyQt5 & PySi… Read More
2021-03-01 15:00
If your job involves generating PDF reports, invoices, etc. you have probably thought about automating that with Python.
Python has some great libraries for working with PDF files, allowing… Read More
2021-02-22 08:00
MicroPython is an implementation of the Python 3 programming language, optimized to run microcontrollers. It's one of the options available for programming your Raspberry Pi Pico and a nice… Read More
2021-02-07 09:00
The Basic 10 Liner contest has been running for 11 years. This year (2021) the 10th competition,
and the first time I've heard of it, thanks to Dean Belfield.
The competition is simple: writ… Read More
2021-02-07 09:00
The Basic 10 Liner contest has been running for 11 years. This year (2021) the 10th competition,
and the first time I've heard of it, thanks to Dean Belfield.
The competition is simple: writ… Read More
2021-02-03 19:00
The Basic 10 Liner contest has been running for 11 years. This year (2021) the 10th competition,
and the first time I've heard of it, thanks to Dean Belfield.
The competition is simple: writ… Read More
2021-02-03 19:00
The Basic 10 Liner contest has been running for 11 years. This year (2021) the 10th competition,
and the first time I've heard of it, thanks to Dean Belfield.
The competition is simple: writ… Read More
2021-01-28 14:00
The SAM Coupé was a British 8 bit home computer that was pitched as a successor to the ZX Spectrum, featuring improved graphics and sound and higher processor speed.
The SAM Coup&eacu&hell…Read More
2021-01-28 14:00
The SAM Coupé was a British 8 bit home computer that was pitched as a successor to the ZX Spectrum, featuring improved graphics and sound and higher processor speed.
The SAM Coup&eacu&hell…Read More
2021-01-22 14:00
FRED was the most popular disk magazine for the SAM Coupé 8 bit home computer.Published by Colin MacDonald out of sunny Monifieth, Scotland, the magazine ran from it's first issue in… Read More
2021-01-22 14:00
FRED was the most popular disk magazine for the SAM Coupé 8 bit home computer.Published by Colin MacDonald out of sunny Monifieth, Scotland, the magazine ran from it's first issue in… Read More
2021-01-21 07:00
How much game can you fit into 25 pixels? Quite a bit it turns out.
This is a mini clone of arcade classic Space Invaders for the BBC micro:bit microcomputer.
Using the accelerometer and two… Read More
2021-01-21 07:00
How much game can you fit into 25 pixels? Quite a bit it turns out.
This is a mini clone of arcade classic Space Invaders for the BBC micro:bit microcomputer.
Using the accelerometer and two… Read More
2021-01-21 07:00
How much game can you fit into 25 pixels? Quite a bit it turns out.
This is a mini clone of arcade classic Space Invaders for the BBC micro:bit microcomputer.
Using the accelerometer and two… Read More
2020-10-23 09:00
In the first part we looked at the information about the SAM Coupe network available in the user manual, technical manual and other examples of networking systems that may have influenced th… Read More
2020-09-23 07:00
The SAM Coupé was a British 8 bit home computer that was pitched as a successor to the ZX Spectrum, alongside improved graphics and sound and higher processor speed
it also had in bui… Read More
2020-04-13 11:01
As the apocalypse rumbles on, I found myself wondering "Is it getting any better?"
Daily updates of spiralling case numbers (and worse, deaths) does little to give a sense of whether we're g… Read More
2020-04-13 11:01
As the apocalypse rumbles on, I found myself wondering "Is it getting any better?"
Daily updates of spiralling case numbers (and worse, deaths) does little to give a sense of whether we're g… Read More
2019-04-07 15:24
So far we've built the Etch-A-Snap and processed an image to produce a 1 bit image. In this part we’ll look at how to take this image and generate the draw instructions for the plotter… Read More
2019-04-07 15:23
The image processing produces a 1 bit image (B&W) of 240x144 pixels. The next step is to take this image and convert it into movements for the motors.
The way this is done is governed l… Read More
2019-04-07 15:22
Etch-A-Sketch is a very simple 2D plotter which is limited to drawing a single unbroken line, of a single thickness and colour which is dark-ish on a silver-ish screen. To be able to plot a… Read More
2019-04-07 15:21
Requirements
Pocket Etch-A-Sketch Not the really really tiny one.
amazon
3D PrinterI have & recommend the Anycubic i3 Mega.
amazon
PLARed, white & black
amazon
2x 5V 28BYJ-485V step… Read More
2019-04-07 15:20
Etch-A-Snap is (probably) the worlds first Etch-A-Sketch Camera. Powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero (or Zero W) it snaps photos just like any other camera, but outputs them by drawing to an Pock… Read More
2019-02-20 15:00
fbs is a cross-platform PyQt5 packaging system which supports building desktop applications for Windows, Mac and Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch). Built on top of PyInstaller it wraps some of… Read More
2019-01-11 08:00
This little project combines the previous accelerometer-gyroscope code with the 3D rotating OLED cube to produce a 3D cube which responds to gyro input, making it possible to "peek around" t… Read More
2019-01-01 08:00
Measuring acceleration and rotation has a lot of useful applications, from drone or rocket stablisation to making physically interactive handheld games.
An accelerometer measures proper acce… Read More
2018-09-30 06:00
The keys, values and items from a dictionary can be accessed using the .keys(), .values() and .items() methods. These methods return view objects which provide a view on the source dictionar… Read More
2018-09-23 07:00
An ESP2866 is never going to compete with an actual graphics card. It certainly won't produce anything approaching modern games. But it still makes a nice platform to explore the basics of 3… Read More
2018-09-23 07:00
An ESP2866 is never going to compete with an actual graphics card. It certainly won't produce anything approaching modern games. But it still makes a nice platform to explore the basics of 3… Read More
2018-08-27 16:00
We've previously covered the basics of driving OLED I2C displays from MicroPython, including simple graphics commands and text. Here we look at displaying monochrome 1 bit-per-pixel images a… Read More
2018-08-26 12:00
Dictionaries are key-value stores, meaning they store, and allow retrieval of data (or values) through a unique key. This is analogous with a real dictionary where you look up definitions (d… Read More
2018-08-26 12:00
Dictionaries are key-value stores, meaning they store, and allow retrieval of data (or values) through a unique key. This is analogous with a real dictionary where you look up definitions (d… Read More
2018-08-26 12:00
Dictionaries are key-value stores, meaning they store, and allow retrieval of data (or values) through a unique key. This is analogous with a real dictionary where you look up definitions (d… Read More
2018-08-25 08:00
The following instructions are based on a 0.91in monochrome OLED, but other
displays using the same chipset can be used with this library.
Requirements
Wemos D1 v2.2+ or good imitations… Read More
2018-08-23 19:00
The Raindar UI was created using Qt Designer, and saved as .ui
file, which is available for download. This was converted to an importable Python file using pyuic5.
API key
Before running t… Read More
2018-06-11 06:00
This is a functionally terrible unzip application, saved only by the fact that you get to look at a cat while using it.
The original idea reflected in the name 7Pez was actually worse &mdas&hell…Read More
2018-06-10 09:00
This is a functionally terrible unzip application, saved only by the fact that you get to look at a cat while using it.
The original idea reflected in the name 7Pez was actually worse &mdas&hell…Read More
2018-06-03 16:30
Failamp is a simple audio & video mediaplayer implemented in Python, using
the built-in Qt playlist and media handling features. It is modelled,
very loosely on the original Winamp, alth… Read More
2018-06-03 16:30
Failamp is a simple audio & video mediaplayer implemented in Python, using
the built-in Qt playlist and media handling features. It is modelled,
very loosely on the original Winamp, alth… Read More
2018-05-31 06:00
The first step in creating desktop applications with PyQt is getting a window to show up on your desktop. Thankfully,
with PyQt that is pretty simple.
Below are a few short examples to creat… Read More
2018-05-31 06:00
The first step in creating desktop applications with PyQt is getting a window to show up on your desktop. Thankfully,
with PyQt that is pretty simple.
Below are a few short examples to creat… Read More
2018-05-31 06:00
The first step in creating desktop applications with PyQt is getting a window to show up on your desktop. Thankfully,
with PyQt that is pretty simple.
Below are a few short examples to creat… Read More
2018-05-27 19:00
With the release of Qt 5.5 the Qt WebKit API was deprecated and replaced with the new QtWebEngine API, based on Chromium.
The WebKit API was subsequently removed from Qt entirely with the re… Read More
2018-05-27 19:00
With the release of Qt 5.5 the Qt WebKit API was deprecated and replaced with the new QtWebEngine API, based on Chromium.
The WebKit API was subsequently removed from Qt entirely with the re… Read More
2018-05-25 19:00
Relieve your creative blockages with these interactive desktop reminders.
Brown Note is a desktop notes application written in Python, using PyQt. The notes are implemented as decoration-le… Read More
2018-05-25 19:00
Relieve your creative blockages with these interactive desktop reminders.
Brown Note is a desktop notes application written in Python, using PyQt. The notes are implemented as decoration-le… Read More
2018-05-14 06:00
This build started as something simple: a lucky cat which would
turn on and off automatically in response to some event. Since lucky cats are
associated with good fortune the idea was to ma… Read More
2018-05-14 06:00
This build started as something simple: a lucky cat which would
turn on and off automatically in response to some event. Since lucky cats are
associated with good fortune the idea was to ma… Read More
2018-05-07 20:00
This app isn't actually a direct line from your webcam to the NSA, it's a demo of
using the webcam/camera support in Qt. The name is a nod to the paranoia (or is it...)
of being watched thro… Read More
2018-04-29 17:00
Megasolid Idiom is a rich text word processor implemented in Python and Qt. You can use it to
open, edit and save HTML-formatted files, with a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) format v… Read More
2018-04-29 17:00
Megasolid Idiom is a rich text word processor implemented in Python and Qt. You can use it to
open, edit and save HTML-formatted files, with a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) format v… Read More
2018-04-23 06:00
Calculators are one of the simplest desktop applications, found by default on every window system. Over time these have been extended to support scientific and programmer modes, but fundamen… Read More
2018-04-23 06:00
Calculators are one of the simplest desktop applications, found by default on every window system. Over time these have been extended to support scientific and programmer modes, but fundamen… Read More
2018-04-16 06:00
Notepad doesn't need much introduction. It's a plaintext editor that's been part of Windows since the beginning, and similar applications exist in every GUI desktop ever created.
Here we rei… Read More
2018-04-16 06:00
Notepad doesn't need much introduction. It's a plaintext editor that's been part of Windows since the beginning, and similar applications exist in every GUI desktop ever created.
Here we rei… Read More
2018-04-09 06:00
Explore the mysterious moon of Q'tee without getting too close to the alien natives!
Moonsweeper is a single-player puzzle video game. The objective of the game is to explore the area around… Read More
2018-04-09 06:00
Explore the mysterious moon of Q'tee without getting too close to the alien natives!
Moonsweeper is a single-player puzzle video game. The objective of the game is to explore the area around… Read More
2018-04-08 21:00
Mozarella Ashbadger is the latest revolution in web browsing! Go back
and forward! Print! Save files! Get help! (you'll need it). Any similarity to other browsers is entirely coincidental… Read More
2018-04-08 21:00
Mozarella Ashbadger is the latest revolution in web browsing! Go back
and forward! Print! Save files! Get help! (you'll need it). Any similarity to other browsers is entirely coincidental… Read More
2018-04-08 12:00
MooseAche is the latest revolution in web browsing! Go back and forward! Save files! Get help! (you'll need it). Any similarity to other browsers is entirely coincidental.
The full source c… Read More
2018-04-08 12:00
MooseAche is the latest revolution in web browsing! Go back and forward! Save files! Get help! (you'll need it). Any similarity to other browsers is entirely coincidental.
The full source c… Read More
2018-04-08 06:00
Below is a quick reference guide to Wemos D1 pin mapping for GPIO, I2C and SPI when working from MicroPython.
Pin mapping
The visible pin numbers written on the Wemos D1 does not relate to… Read More
2018-04-08 06:00
Below is a quick reference guide to Wemos D1 pin mapping for GPIO, I2C and SPI
when working from MicroPython.
Pin mapping
The visible pin numbers written on the Wemos D1 does not relate to… Read More
2018-04-07 06:00
This app isn't actually a direct line from your webcam to the NSA, it's a demo of
using the webcam/camera support in Qt. The name is a nod to the paranoia (or is it)
of being watched through… Read More
2018-03-28 20:00
Pulse sensors have become popular due to their use in health-monitors like the Fitbit. The sensors used are cheap, simple and pretty reliable at getting a reasonable indication of heart rate… Read More
2018-03-28 20:00
Pulse sensors have become popular due to their use in health-monitors like the Fitbit. The sensors used are cheap, simple and pretty reliable at getting a reasonable indication of heart rate… Read More
2018-03-22 20:45
System tray applications (or menu bar applications) can be useful for making common functions or information available in a small number of clicks. For full desktop applications they're a us… Read More
2018-03-22 17:00
System tray applications (or menu bar applications) can be useful for making common functions or information available in a small number of clicks. For full desktop applications they're a us… Read More
2018-03-16 06:00
A collection of 15 small — minute — desktop applications written in
Python using the PyQt framework. These apps are intended as examples
from which you can poke, hack and prod… Read More
2018-03-16 06:00
A collection of 15 small — minute — desktop applications written in
Python using the PyQt framework. These apps are intended as examples
from which you can poke, hack and prod… Read More
2018-02-27 00:00
Pulse sensors are a common feature of fitness monitors, used to track your activity and cardiac fitness over time. These external monitors use the reflection and absorption of bright green/i… Read More
2018-02-27 00:00
Pulse sensors are a common feature of fitness monitors, used to track your activity and cardiac fitness over time. These external monitors use the reflection and absorption of bright green/i… Read More
2017-08-15 09:00
KropBot is a little multiplayer robot you can control over the internet. Co-operate with random internet strangers to drive around
in circles and into walls.
If it is online, you can driv… Read More
2017-08-15 09:00
KropBot is a little multiplayer robot you can control over the internet. Co-operate with random internet strangers to drive around
in circles and into walls.
If it is online, you can drive… Read More
2017-06-25 08:00
KropBot is a little multiplayer robot you can control over the internet. Co-operate with random internet strangers to drive around
in circles and into walls.
If it is online, you can… Read More
2017-05-05 06:55
The Scroll pHAT is a little 11x5 (55) white LED matrix pHAT (pi-HAT extension board) which you can control easily from a Raspberry Pi. In this project we’ll squeeze a tiny-yet-playable… Read More
2017-05-05 06:55
The Scroll pHAT is a little 11x5 (55) white LED matrix pHAT which you can control easily from a Raspberry Pi. In this project we'll squeeze a tiny-yet-playable game of Tetris onto the Scroll… Read More
2017-04-15 19:11
A common problem when building GUI applications is "locking up" of the interface when attempting to perform long-running background tasks. In this tutorial I'll cover one of the simplest way… Read More
2017-04-15 19:11
A common problem when building GUI applications is "locking up" of the interface when attempting to perform long-running background tasks. In this tutorial I'll cover one of the simplest way… Read More
2017-04-14 00:00
A common problem when building GUI applications is “locking up” of the interface when attempting to perform long-running background tasks. In this tutorial I’ll cover one o… Read More
2016-11-28 09:00
Because of the low stoichiometry of protein phosphorylation, targeted
enrichment prior to LC–MS/MS analysis is still essential. The trend in
phosphoproteome analysis is shifting toward… Read More
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