MonthFebruary 2015

Make an anti procrastination box – with Arduino

I had a spare segment display and wondered about what I could make out of it. Hence was born the idea of the anti-procrastination box : for those of us who are a little too close to their smartphones but need to stay away from it from productivity reasons, put the phone in the box and set the interval during which the box ought to stay locked.
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Make a Snake game for Android written in Python – Part 3

I hope you enjoyed the first two sections of the tutorial. If you got through it, rest assured that the hardest part is behind us. The game engine is at 90% done at that point, and handling screens is very straightforward in kivy. We’re just going to make a few arrangements here before packaging the app. It’s a good front-end exercise because this time we’ll rely a lot more on the kivy language.

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Make a Snake game for Android written in Python – Part 2

If you followed Part 1 of this tutorial, hopefully your development environment should be all set. We’re ready to get down to business (in France we would say : “mettre les mains dans le cambouis”. Because you can learn coding, and useless french idioms at the same time!)
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Make a Snake game for Android written in Python – Part 1

I wanted to code my first android app for a long time but I didn’t really know where to start. I wasn’t really excited at the idea of having to learn Java and was worried that my current level of C++ wouldn’t be enough. So I began to look for a way to code the app in my go-to language : Python. Using Python allows for reuse of the native libraries, which can come in very handy. And it obviously comes with the usual Python magic and agility.

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