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Introduction
Towards the end of 2014 I decided that I wanted to learn digital electronics.As someone who would self-identify as a software person I only had a relativelywooley understanding of what happened at the “sand layer” of my computer. I’veset myself the project...

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Introduction
For a personal project recently I needed a simple monospaced 8x8 pixel font. Icould, of course, make my own but I thought it’d be nice for nostalgia reasonsto try and extract the Acorn 8x8 font used in the old BBCMicrocomputer. Using Python we candirectly...

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This post talks about how to do a simple Optical Character Recognition task inPython. But first, why did I want to do this in the first place?
The University of Manchester is, as I’m writing this, running a competition as part of a tie in with the forthcoming film The Imitiation Game. Thefilm centres around Alan Turing and his time as a cryptographer at BletchleyPark near Oxford....

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Recently I shared apost on G+ which had aGoogle “photosphere” transformed into the “little planet” projection. This post(and associated IPython notebook) will walk you through the way I created theplanet image using scikit-image. This was my firststeps...