Category Archives: Python

Categorising text with ChatGPT. Results may be messy.

I have a hobby project I’m working on. It’s an astronomy news feed reader. Long story short: I currently gather links to interesting articles about astronomy by hand. And I want to automate this, so that I have more time … Continue reading

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A Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi (Part 3): The Strava API

This is part 3 of a series of blogposts on how I created a Strava dashboard on a Inky Impression e-ink display with a Raspberry Pi. OAuth2 This was the part that I expected to be the hard part: getting … Continue reading

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A Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi (Part 2): Installing software

In last blogpost we set up the Raspberry Pi, attached the Inky Impression display and got the Raspberry Pi ready for remote access. Time to get the Inky Impression software installed and make the Inky Impression screen display something. Your … Continue reading

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A Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi (Part 1): Setting up the Raspberry Pi

This is the list of hardware I’ve used: For those who don’t know a Raspberry Pi: this is a very small and quite cheap computer. The Raspberry Pi 3B+ I’ve used for example is about 40 euros. But you can … Continue reading

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Building a Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi with an e-ink display

Let’s face it: my purchase of the Pimoroni Inky Impression 5.7 inch display was a solution looking for a problem. I saw a video about it and I was sold on the idea of having an e-ink display on one … Continue reading

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Adding the track of my bike ride on a Folium map

Having markers of videos and photos taken during my bike ride is cool and all, but how about having a track of the bike ride itself? All my bike rides are registered on Strava, the cycling and running app. Strava … Continue reading

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Photo locations, marker icons and displaying photos on my map

When I was finished last week with creating my video location map in Python, I thought “shame I can’t plot photo locations”. That’s because my Fuji X-T30 camera doesn’t store GPS info. When I bought the camera I assumed every … Continue reading

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Making my video location map even better with Folium

Yesterday I shared how I plotted locations of videos shot with my Sony FDR-X3000 camera on a map. I was already pretty happy. Then I got a tip from Twitter user Bob Haffner (@bobhaffner): why not use Folium to create … Continue reading

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Plotting video locations from my Sony camera in Python

Two years ago I bought a Sony FDR-X3000 actioncam to record video on my bike rides. And I’m really happy about it. It’s just great reliving my rides in 4K, going downhill for kilometers from some col I climbed. I … Continue reading

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