luna VS atbswp

Check out https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/luna and https://github.com/tinyfpga/TinyFPGA-Bootloader

What the hell, here are a bunch of half-baked ideas that I haven't made time for because I'm lazy and stressed out and exhausted:

1. Designing a protocol and air interface for an amateur radio cellular network. This started out with some spread spectrum experiments and an interest in low-probability-of-intercept (below the noise floor) communication. The idea I have now is sort of a cross between APRS and DMR using modern modulation techniques. The network would consist of amateur rooftop "cells" with internet connections, and mobile transponders that communicate with those cells. There'd be some sort of callsign or key based addressing scheme and IP-like network topology discovery. Everything will be authenticated. I'd love to have an encrypted mode, but unless the laws change, it probably isn't going to happen.

2. Open-source firmware or gateware implementation of a USB PD controller that supports entering/exiting alternate modes properly. Inspired by Kate Temkin's Luna project [1]. I got the impression that PD was out of scope for LUNA, at least for the time being, but it would be really nice to have both a USB and PD stack that could be integrated onto a small, inexpensive chip without the proprietary mess.

[1] https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/luna

This book is definitely a good starting point, and if you want a glimpse of what you can achieve with an automation library (pyautogui in the case of the book), do check out atbswp

Using the library of the author pyautogui, I developed a macro recorder atbswp (Yes like the book) which makes it very easy to automate boring tasks, do check it out.

Seems I am late to the party. Anyway, if you like automation, check out atbswp

Shameless plug, you can do the same with this[0] albeit not in the CLI.

0: https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp

Source: I use both in a project of mine atbswp

I just released a new version of atbswp I intend to start working on the v0.3 (or 0.2.1 not sure yet)

Just to add options on top of QT5, there's also wxPython. It's pretty good, and fwiw, I use it for this project not the most convoluted GUI out there but it works. Iirc there's also Pysimplegui but I never used it.

Not necessarily, you can use a CI pipeline to verify that your project can be build with many Python versions. This is the workflow I use here[0]. It makes catching and fixing breaking changes easier. Plus, I'm confident the core team is not likely to introduce a painful breaking change (think Python 2 -> 3) soon[1]

0: https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp

1: https://mobile.twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/130608247244308...