Below is a quick tutorial on how flask web framework might be used for simple highscore tracking.

All of the source code the state game is now on github.

This code will accept an AJAX GET or POST at the end of each game so that scores can be tracked and read.

Since the use-cases are simple it's easy to write the tests first:

class StateTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.db_fd, state.app.config['DATABASE'] = 
            tempfile.mkstemp()
        state.app.config['TESTING'] = True
        self.app = state.app.test_client()
        state.init_db()

    def tearDown(self):
        os.close(self.db_fd)
        os ...

Below is a recent weekend programming project that I did to play with canvas. Who doesn't like a geography game?

It uses a simple svg image for the map with a canvas overlay to detect state clicks. On the back-end it uses a very short python script with web.py. Most people who tried it out found the rotation to be annoying and difficult; for me it makes it more interesting :)

Here is a weekend hack that uses the midi to AVR conversion script and library. With xmas fast approaching I thought it would be fun to convert a pacman candy tin to an xmas ornament and have it play music. Below is the result, pressing a button on the tin will cycle through three Ms. Pacman songs converted from midi files found online.

"You've got a friend in me" played on an attiny85 and two speakers converted from a midi version of the song:

With an attiny13A, an IR motion sensor, and a candy Mario Brothers mushroom tin, this project turns them into a USB powered IR sensor that also blinks and sings.