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Programming an Autonomous 20 Foot Blimp with Python

By
Rudy Mutter
-
June 5, 2014

At last week's meetup on May 28th, Scott Lobdell rehashed his PyCon talk to us on programming an autonomous blimp with Python. Scott, a repeat Django meetup speaker, gave another great and unique talk

Scott first brought us through some of the fundamentals of how a blimp works and what his code needed to account for when flying it. We also got a walkthrough of the hardware components and sensors that his code had to interface with to make it happen.

Interestingly much of his code had to interface with C due to the hardware, so he used a tool called Boost, which made it simpler for his python code to reference C modules and vice versa.

Meetup, Talk Resources

Adam Hitchcock also gave us a lightning talk on how to create your own linter. It is seemingly a bit hard to create your own linter, but with tutorials, examples, and some extension frameworks it seems like it is possible.

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Rudy Mutter is a CTO + Founding Partner at Yeti. He found his passion for technology as a youth, spending his childhood developing games and coding websites. Rudy now resides in the Yeti Cave where he architects Yeti’s system and heads up project production.

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