Using python for the ultrasonic distance sensor from part one of this post in a project I realized: It is still too slow. In my project I record high queality video using the raspberry pi camera at high resolution. That puts quite some load on the IO. As a result, the timing needed for the […]

Like lots of other people I have come to like latexdiff to highlight changes between versions of latex documents. It takes two latex files as input and outputs a new latex file, in which changes are highlighted. I use a lot of pgf/tikz for graphics and latexdiff will destroy tikzpicture code. To avoid that I […]

On Wednesday I started looking into py-orbit (the orbit tracking code for python). In order to quickly see what happens with the particles I wanted to be able to directly access the particle coordinates as a numpy array. The builtin c functions will only give you a pointer to the particle array and the builtin […]

Some commercial packages (namely AftershotPro) still depend on the old 32 bits compatibility libs for ubuntu. The package is obsolete for a long time now as the new ubuntu distributions are compatible with 32-bits stuff from the start (at least that’s what I gather from various sources). For aftershot there were two approaches: Install the […]