Simple lessons learned while building things - My open source journey so far

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes a good idea One of the stock critiques for any new project is that it’s been done before. You’re working on a new module, format,...

Extraction of text from image using tesseract-ocr engine

This post was long overdue! We have been working on building a food recommendation system for some time and this phase involved getting the menu items from the menu images...

Trying out Oculus Rift: Development kit 2

I woke up and found myself inside the elevator. A rather spooky one I would say. Questions like “Why was I inside an elevator?” would come to your mind. I...

Making of space Shooter using pygame

I procrastinated enough in writing this post so here it goes. Pygame treated me good. So good that I was able to create a decent enough 2-D game in a...

Say Hi to peewee

Once upon a time, when we had to interact with the databases. We had to write bare bones SQL(seequel if you may) or Structured Query language. A language which many...