Animated Sprites - Time to bragI 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...Oct 14, 2021·1 min read·132
Research your project name FIRSTWhen 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, 2021·1 min read·113
MeshTalk, Curses and PacketsMeshTalk 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, 2021·2 min read·297
Creating a text based user interface with Python and CursesRetro look and highly functionalSep 11, 2021·3 min read·1.5K
Parsing command line parameters and using that data to control your programIn 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, 2021·3 min read·155
