Last time, I assembled a Python object representing a Rigol oscilloscope. Manipulating the object communicates with the scope over the network. But my original goal was to build a little GUI window to ...

Microcontrollers are wonderfully useful things, but programming them can be a little daunting if you’re used to the simplicity of compiling for regular PCs. Over time though, this has become easier.

Only two serious choices for a GUI toolkit are left: Qt and GTK. Motif still lives on, but nobody uses it for anything new. When Qt 3.0 was released in October 2001, it was a singificant upgrade and ...