This Old Coder

Oct 14, 20211 min read132 views

Animated Sprites - Time to brag

I spent a few hours last night using LEDarcade to draw an animated sprite that harkens back to my childhood: Intellivision Running Man. I have a longer article in the works to describe how I did all this in python. But for now, here is a small tease...

Research your project name FIRST
When I came up with the name MeshTalk I thought I was being clever. My project was created with the desire to quickly send messages to a network of Meshtastic devices. Sadly for me, the name MeshTalk is already in use on several different projects. ...
Sep 26, 20211 min read115 views
MeshTalk, Curses and Packets
MeshTalk It has been a wild week for me. I decided to improve the curses code in my MeshTalk program. If you recall, curses is a python library (derived from ancient 80's code) used to display text in windows on a terminal. Curses I created 5 wind...
Sep 19, 20212 min read297 views
Creating a text based user interface with Python and Curses
Retro look and highly functional
Sep 11, 20213 min read1.6K views
Making old school text banners with a Raspberry Pi
So old its cool again
Sep 11, 20212 min read450 views
Adding your project to GitHub
MeshTalk development series - 4
Sep 9, 20212 min read137 views
Parsing command line parameters and using that data to control your program
In the previous article I showed how you can include and check input parameters in Python. But all we did was check for the existence of the parameter, we didn't capture any data associated with it. ERROR: Developer forgot about capturing the mes...
Sep 9, 20213 min read155 views