pyCon India 2013 - Day 2 Session Notes

Please find second day session notes

Session #1 – Rasberry PI basics by Sudar Muthu

Good basic session. Speaker presented the content and demo very well. Notes from the session

• Simplest helloworld program on Rasberry PI is a light blink program
• Speaker also spoke about controlling devices
• Using PWM (Pulse width modulation) devices can be managed
• PWM.py – pull up (Higher Voltage), pull down (Lower Voltage)
• Protocols – I2C, SPI, Serial. These protocols can be used to talk to devices
• Interacting with web cam using PyGame

More Reads -  Distributed Computing Tutorials, Author website – HardwareforFun

Session #2 – Robotics Demo

•  ROS (Robotics Operating System)
• Author used RasberryPi and arduino Node

Tools

• Speech Synthesis – Festival and pyFestival
• Speech Recognition – Gstreamer, Pocket Sphinx
• Artificial Intelligence – AIML, pyAIML (Artifical Intelligence Markup language)
• GUI – QT and pyQT

Author site – Technolabz, Lentin Joseph

Session #3 – arduino and Internet of Things

Arduino – Open Source Electronics Prototyping platform

Advantages of arduino

• Easy to use
• Cheap
• Open Hardware
• Open Documents

Components

• Hw: device : electronic prototyping board
• Sw:bootloader
• Sw:libraries
• Sw: IDE
• Interfacing – Connected to computer using Bluetooth / USB

Tools

• pySerial Libarary
• arduino shows up in computer as serial device
• Library - http://code.google.com/p/permata/

Use Cases

• Talk over Serial, RF, Ethernet
• Attach Sensor and relay other readings
• Attach Actuators and make things move
• Connecting devices through web
• Security Sensor, email on touch
• Author - Avik Dhupar
• http://www.arduino.cc/

Session #4 - Testing tools Sessions (Open Source Tools)

• Fabric for distributed testing (This deployment tool can be used for distributed computing testing  )
• STAF IBM Test Automation Framework Tool -
• Nitrate Test case management tools -
• Test link – Test case management tool
• Beaker Project – Managing Automated Tests

Session #5 – Web Scraping

• Author used http://scrapy.org/
• Pablo Hoffman is the scappy developer
• Author Anuvrat Parashar provided examples on crawaling web, collecting data, extracting information from collected data 

More Tools

Jaunt Java Web Scraping & Automation

CasperJS is a navigation scripting & testing utility 

Happy Learning!!!