This is an instance were professionalism wins over me ..You could see my last post about my own creation of pages for the site http://hackerdom.in .. But drupal could offer much more a professional site for me ..  I din yield first . I was trying to touch up mine to get a drupal look .. I got it done .. It was having a drupal look .. But further ,I yielded to drupal . Not because of its design . But because of it’s manageability ..

Sir told me to do drupal for our site , since they’ll require me always to alter my designs . If it is drupal they’ll get tutorials from the web . When I thought, it was right .. The work must go on even something happened for me .. So I yielded . Now we have our drupal site much much professional having a beutiful mirrored image of ‘hackerdom’ by kedharnath – our classmate . With Unni’s ideas it gained its thro ..

Thanks to drupal ..for getting our work simplified ..

I have been going on enchanting about too many projects ..
Panorama, PCSuite , image2Muzik , Circuit maker , Audio broadcasting , and what not .. I was rocking with projects ..

Finally I could be proud of having something called list of projects ,but what use .. You can have a satisfaction over your code if you can derive that to an applicable field . Finally I got that feel from my midnight oil ..

A ‘video conferencing’ in 50 lines .. Again credit goes to python ..

We made it .. I was alone for the coding part (still it worked)..

A server sends streaming audio and video through two different threads and sockets which is accepted by client code running at the other end of lan .That is the design .

I will upload this whole set of 7 projects we did to chipmonks.co.in/projects in short .
Minimum lines coding revolution by python ..howz the heading .. 
For instance this is my audio_client.py

import socket,sys,thread
clientsocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
host = sys.argv[1]
clientsocket.connect((host, 4445))
clientsocket.send(‘audio’)
if clientsocket.recv(100) != ‘ok’:
sys.exit()
clientsocket.send(‘ok’)
output=open(‘/dev/audio’,'w’)
try:
while 1:
output.write(clientsocket.recvfrom(1000)[0])
except:
thread.exit()
output.close()
clientsocket.close()

‘ Hail python the goddess of code ‘
Panorama of python’s victory of fast coding continues .. This time its a panorama factory, the art of making wide pictures, got done with python ..As usual necessity brought the idea . This was related to one of my classmate – fasil’s project idea .. Me being interested in python took it for a challenge as usual but stopped just with this code and shot my usual final statement : “hmm ! I think its better than more ..” 

What is panorama ?
Unnaturally wide pictures could be made by joining pictures end to end .. This is known as panorama pic ..
Definition royalty goes for me

joining this pictures end to end requires care .. You have to find out the maximum matching position before you join pictures to ensure panoramic view ..Here I am attaching a 60 line code which converts pic1.jpg and pic2.jpg to a single finpic.jpg by normalising the match .. It is just a play with the code I know . But it could be useful ..

Last time when I posted about a project done in few lines python code , some of my friend asked me the code and I need to send it .. So this time I remind myself to start the habit of attaching code here ..

Panorama maker :
(python code to join pictures breadth wise)

File : proj_23.py
converts : pic1.jpg and pic2.jpg to finpic.jpg
(You can make it in a loop for doing a panorama using webcam )
Requirements :

1. Python interpreter
2. Python imaging library

Download

Hey ! Hindusthan keliye ye he ek aur company : angelsvista .

Don’t mistook me in alliance with them having postponed Chipmonk’s launching shifted indefenitely from 1st April 2008 ,the very day they have launched their company . I didn’t even know them . I know that the executive team of Linoy ,Balu ,Nikhil and Eldhose come from Kerala . This is not an ad, but a post just to applaud them .
Their investment is 2 lakhs . But what they do is Google’s initial job – content delivery service .

Angelsvista has implemented technologies such as Bandwidth Throttling and FLV Seek that are specifically designed to attract their customers. Cudos for their selection of such an idea in India where we lack something like a “Global platform“

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Our chipbake projecthas got a new companion a circuit maker .Unlike other languages python won’t shear time from us . Its a simple deal to create such an application in python / Tkinter .The GUI looks like shown below :

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I happened to see some videos in youtube about MOBO 2007 contest conducted by organisation of robots for line following bots..

Amazing .. But what I noticed was very few of them followed a line correctly …But some where making it even for multilines and curves ..

Between I would like to announce here that some our classmates(sajitha and team) have successfully completed a line following robot . It is working for all angles above 90 degree and even curves ..I was thinking of my old friend’s words . “They(foreigners) have money and hard work but no brain power .. We(Indians) have only brain power . What to do ? Flee out from India” -David Sir . (He is a traveller and talker .. He might not be remembering me . He is now just a travel agency owner losing all his buses )

Whenever we start a robot we’ll be stuck at the body arrangement .The alignment of the wheels is an imporatant thing which we won’t notice . Last time when we made one the same problem made us look for a ready-made body .Anyway its awesome to have a slave for us .Better ,when it is a robot .

Between I can’t find any atmega 8 burning circuits in internet eventhough we can do it using the same configurationss as atmega 16 . For my own better access I am uploading one here ..

Viruses are bad (How to catch Ahsan’s virus- in my tech blog )

Finally I was compelled to take such a conclusion .Viruses are bad .
An Ahsan’s virus got into my system ..
This is really a funny one .. It acts every 5 seconds .. Closes all applications you try to run ..Renames all stuffs as Ahsan’s ..

I used to try viruses to know how to catch them ..This time It caught me .. I was myself installing it accidently along with MobiMB3.6.6 .. Dont download it ..It is a virus .

I have got a comment for this in techspec from somebody called ahsan manan … I din mean to hurt anyone .. I just posted a remedy for this at techspec

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Neko is now reloaded, a devotion to python , from our Pramode sir..An easy path to python .An interactive learning of a powerful language.I gave this to my sister who haven’t even heard about python and gave her an initial startup .After half an hour she was asking me to give her problems to code in python… And I just want to say ‘Thats Neko !!’ ..

See the interactive console above …You can see Neko, the cat , obeying your commands… Commands like right() , left() , sleep() , wakeup() are his present jobs .You can teach him more .. Click here

I love python ; It is the most understandable easily hackable language I have ever seen . You will need it when you want to do something which we expect our computer to do for us , for example merge few HTML files , select all files with a pattern of name, calculate a sort of formula from a big set of data .All these you could do with your computer , but how ..Bitterly vague; proving that even for accomplishing house keeping jobs there is no such options in proprietary operating systems like windows . It is python which helps me to use windows. A Kid starting using a system may be ignorant about capabilities of his/her system since it is cruelly abstracted before him/her by these proprietary OSs ..It is here python proves its power. It is an easily acquainted language .
Here you can download a PyNeko (executable file) to start commanding your Neko .See him obeying you . Start teaching him new things . You will get acquainted with python .There is a python console with which you can do any python code ,you can leave Neko unminded if you go ahead typing python code which you have learned automatically .In fact he , The Neko ,have taught you the language python , after which you can download
and use python for windows .After you learn try to switch to free OSs (linux) where you can use python source code

Let that be for today
Thankyou for reading further
This is anf signing off

Hey ,
This time I am not in search of fortunes ..Let them catch me .

This post is just to boast over a project I have done to solve an LPP problem ..Despite it’s simplicity it was specific with its utility in a particular branch of engineering: dairy science
Here goes the details ..
Aim was to formulate an ice-cream mix.. Even though it was a help for one my friends , I enjoyed it since I did it in python ..

py2exe ’s version compatible to python 2.5(recent release) helped me to deploy it as a single file ..Even when I preach open source , at times I need to stand for the momentary needs ..Anyway I was not confused to choose free software when my friend asked me not to disclose my code there at submission.

But atlast I was happy to hear about my software working in front of so many people who I haven’t met yet ..But it (my code) got used to them so easily !!

The final version Icrecream mix formulation has been hosted at our idea seller

Click here to download

This makes me remember our first software deployment at newbharat..Ah let that be in some other post ..