Adding 'Hack' monospace font functionality into Spyder IDE in Fedora Core 21

As of late, a lot of the code I have been hacking out for just about anything has been straight, 100% Python. With that, I've also ditched 'vi' + plugins and have grown [...]

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Calculating NMEA sentence checksums with Python

Another feature I wanted to add to my NTP/GPS project I'm doing with my Raspberry Pi is to validate the NMEA sentences I'm reading in by checksum'ing the NMEA sentence [...]

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Parsing NMEA sentences from GPS with Python + PySerial

I've had a need to parse some NMEA output on my Raspberry Pi for a project I'm working on. In essence, it is pretty trivial to read from a serial port and parse ASCII [...]

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