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I am passionate about growth, pushing my limits, and achieving ambitious goals.

Computer Vision Security System

This is a cool project that uses computer vision techniques and a webcam to act as a security system. I will demonstrate how to detect if a door is opened then have my computer yell at the opener. For this all you need is a webcam, python, and the modules

Light Control over the Internet

Ever wonder how people control lights over the internet (such as from The Big Bang Theory)? Here's a little tutorial on how to do it. For this I'm using python, Ubuntu, and an Arduino Mega. Tutorials on how to install these can be found fr

Monitoring Stocks with Grafana

This is a post showing how to use the graph builder grafana and a python script to monitor stocks.[t]Get your packages ready[/t]First things first, download and install [urll=http://grafana.org/download/]grafana[/url] and [url=https://influxdata.com/downl

Emulating Ruby's String Interpolation in Python

I've been learning Ruby recently and, honestly, I prefer python over it in every way. Except for the string interpolations. And I'm not going to use Ruby over python only for this, so I decided to figure out how to give python that same ability.

Server Load Balancing Tutorial

This is going to be a simple tutorial on server load balancing using nginx and python’s BaseHTTPServer module. [t]What is load balancing?[/t]Load balancing is the way all the big websites are able to work. If they used only a single server, they wou