Ruzzle Solving – The nerd way ..

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I’ve been working on this project in my spare time for about three weeks and even though is not yet completed I decided it was time to share something. The idea was to realize a robot that could play Ruzzle versus an human player leaving him no possiblity to win. After a few days of brainstorming I decided to start writing a little of code in Python: In a few hours I managed to obtain all the right words performing a depth-first search and comparing them with a dictionary but I felt that was not enough so I asked myself: Why not use OpenCV for image processing combined to Tesseract for letter recognition ? Continue reading →

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Using Transform Matrix for PCB Drilling – Part 1

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Since I started making my own PCB I always complained how boring and tricky is hand drilling all the holes in the right place. Owning a CNC router I could have the work done in a hurry neverthless I prefer etching my own boards and have the drills done by the router. The main problem is how tricky is aligning the board under the machine, furthermore there may be some scaling problem related to the master mask precision. Thus I started coding a little tool which could help me in this process allowing me to not care about all the stuff I just explained above. Continue reading →