How to look busy when working from home with 5 lines of Python code — Note: we do not recommend that you actually try this as a means of deceiving your workplace. This article is just a bit of fun! :) I discovered pyautogui long before covid19 when I ditched excel and moved across to Python in my professional life. …

A quick guide on how to track assets with LoRaWAN, AWS dynamoDB, AWS Lambda, AWS API gateway and Google Maps — LoRaWAN (LoRa in short) allows you to send small packages of sensor data across long distances (5–10 km) at very low power consumption. LoRa stands for Long Range and is a low-power wide-network protocol that will significantly impact the future of IoT (Internet of Things). This means you can use…

In 2018 I stopped using Excel cold turkey and Python made me a better professional ever since. This story is about my personal journey to move away from Excel and into the world of Python. — Two years ago I made a drastic move, I stopped using Excel and moved across to Python. Excel had been a part of my life since I started studying Mechanical Engineering in 1996. Without realising it, Excel became part of my routine and I used it for most things at…

A quick guide on how to expose temperature measurements to your website using LoRaWAN, AWS dynamoDB, AWS Lambda and AWS API gateway. LoRaWAN (LoRa in short) allows you to send small packages of sensor data across long distances (5–10 km) at very low power consumption. LoRa stands for Long Range…

Quick guide on how to setup a raspberry pi to read out a smart gas meter and setup a website to plot gas consumption over time. — In the Netherlands, most houses are heated with natural gas and most people use gas for cooking. Over the last 10 years, the majority of houses switched to smart meters for gas and electricity. These meters make it possible for suppliers to remotely read out your consumption. Unfortunately, less than…

Ever had the urge to check for messages on your phone while refueling your car? — You know that’s probably not a very good idea as your mobile phone, in a cloud of gaseous vapor, could trigger an explosion. I took out my phone (could not resist) recently at a local unmanned fuel station while topping up and, to my surprise, the pump stopped. I put…

I work for a major energy company and we have every platform for data science you can think of. But what if you’re a self-employed engineer and you want to be able to run Jupyter Notebooks in the cloud to be able to collaborate with a small team (2–3 people)? …