Hi ChiPy,
Happy new year - get ready for a great start to ChiPy 2025! We have some
great talks planned this month. Please RSVP at the ChiPy website below. See
you there!
Thank you to Tegus by AlphaSense <https://www.tegus.com/> for hosting us!
*RSVP HERE*
https://www.chipy.org/meetings/419/
*When*: Jan. 9, 2025, 6 p.m.
6:00 pm *- *doors open; food
6:30 pm - talks start
*Where*:
Tegus
200 N. LaSalle Street. Suite 1100. Chicago, IL 60601
Building Entry: Upon arriving at Tegus HQ, attendees will be asked to
provide a legal ID to the front desk to check-in. Event Location: Floor 11
- Millennium Park Conference Room
*Topics*
- Building Smart Home Devices using Python
By: Eugene Scray
I have a lamp—I love my lamp. I’ve placed it in the perfect spot, but
the on/off switch is so remote that I have to crawl over my couch just to
reach it. Wouldn't it be nice if I could simply gesture to my lamp and turn
it on? That's exactly what I set out to do. Before long, I was elbow-deep
in experiments with MediaPipe for hand tracking, Python for prototyping,
NumPy for data crunching, and GPIO for bridging the digital and physical
worlds. Little by little, that wild idea took shape, transforming into a
live system that lets you wave goodbye to remotes forever.
Join me at ChiPy, where I’ll share how this gesture-recognition project
grew from a late-night epiphany into a fully functional smart home
solution. We’ll explore how combining computer vision and IoT opens up new
ways to interact with our environment—no more clunky remotes or
app-hopping. Get ready for a glimpse into the future of home automation,
driven by intuitive gestures and powered by Python.
- Quick and dirty data ETL from an API
By: Rodica T.
Quick script to pull data from an API and perform some basic
cleaning/transformation/filtering using Pandas.
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