Martin Fitzpatrick

Remaking the classic Atari game ET in 10 lines of SAM Coupé BASIC

Martin Fitzpatrick — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The Basic 10 Liner contest has been running for 11 years. This year (2021) the 10th competition, and the first …

6th Edition - Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt, Released — PyQt6 & PySide6 Books updated for 2025 with model view controller architecture, new Python/Qt features and more examples

Martin Fitzpatrick — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0000

The 6th edition of my book Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt is now available, for PyQt6 & PySide6.

This update …

PyQt6 Book now available in Korean: 파이썬과 Qt6로 GUI 애플리케이션 만들기 — The hands-on guide to creating GUI applications with Python gets a new translation

Martin Fitzpatrick — Thu, 04 May 2023 09:00:00 +0000

I am very happy to announce that my Python GUI programming book Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6 / PyQt6 Edition …

Getting Started With Git and GitHub in Your Python Projects — Version-Controlling Your Python Projects With Git and GitHub

Martin Fitzpatrick — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Using a version control system (VCS) is crucial for any software development project. These systems allow developers to track changes …

Working With Classes in Python — Understanding the Intricacies of Python Classes

Martin Fitzpatrick — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Python supports object-oriented programming (OOP) through classes, which allow you to bundle data and behavior in a single entity. Python …

Getting started with VS Code for Python — Setting up a Development Environment for Python programming

Martin Fitzpatrick — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Setting up a working development environment is the first step for any project. Your development environment setup will determine how …

PyQt6, PySide6, PyQt5 and PySide2 Books -- updated for 2022! — New editions extended and updated, now 780+ pages

Martin Fitzpatrick — Thu, 19 May 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Hello! Today I have released new digital editions of my PyQt5, PyQt6, PySide2 and PySide6 book Create GUI Applications with …

DiffCast: Hands-free Python Screencast Creator — Create reproducible programming screencasts without typos or edits

Martin Fitzpatrick — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Programming screencasts are a popular way to teach programming and demo tools. Typically people will open up their favorite editor …

PySide6 tutorial now available — Complete course, updated for PySide2 & PySide6

Martin Fitzpatrick — Fri, 14 May 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Hello! With the release of Qt6 versions of PyQt and PySide the course was getting a little crowded. So, today …

PyQt6 Book now available: Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6 — The hands-on guide to making apps with Python

Martin Fitzpatrick — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Hello! Today I have released the first PyQt6 edition of my book Create GUI Applications, with Python & Qt6.

This update …

PySide6 Book now available: Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt6 — The hands-on guide to making apps with Python

Martin Fitzpatrick — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Hello! This morning I released the first Qt6 edition of my PySide book Create GUI Applications, with Python & Qt6.

This …

Using MicroPython and uploading libraries on Raspberry Pi Pico — Using rshell to upload custom code

Martin Fitzpatrick — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:00:00 +0000

MicroPython is an implementation of the Python 3 programming language, optimized to run microcontrollers. It's one of the options available …

Writing Snake in 10 lines of SAM Coupé BASIC — Simple Snake game in 10 lines of BASIC

Martin Fitzpatrick — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000

The Basic 10 Liner contest has been running for 11 years. This year (2021) the 10th competition, and the first …

Writing a SAM Coupé SCREEN$ Converter in Python — Interrupt optimizing image converter

Martin Fitzpatrick — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000

The SAM Coupé was a British 8 bit home computer that was pitched as a successor to the ZX Spectrum …

Preserving the FRED disk magazine's text by decoding the Entropy Reader — Writing a SAM Coupé Reader parser in Python

Martin Fitzpatrick — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000

FRED was the most popular disk magazine for the SAM Coupé 8 bit home computer.Published by Colin MacDonald out …

Squeezing Space Invaders onto the BBC micro:bit's 25 pixels — MicroPython retro game in just 25 pixels

Martin Fitzpatrick — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 07:00:00 +0000

How much game can you fit into 25 pixels? Quite a bit it turns out.

This is a mini clone …

Network Interface Design — Details of the SAM Coupé networking circuitry

Martin Fitzpatrick — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:00:00 +0000

In the first part we looked at the information about the SAM Coupe network available in the user manual, technical …

SAM Coupé Network — Figuring out the SAM Coupé 8 bit home computer's networking abilities

Martin Fitzpatrick — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The SAM Coupé was a British 8 bit home computer that was pitched as a successor to the ZX Spectrum …

Create GUI Applications with Python & Qt5, 4th Edition now available (PyQt5 & PySide2) — The hands-on guide to make apps with Python

Martin Fitzpatrick — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:06:00 +0000

Hello! This morning I released a new update to my PyQt5 book Create GUI Applications, with Python & Qt5. This is …

LearnPyQt — One year in, and much more to come. — A quick retrospective on 2019

Martin Fitzpatrick — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:12:00 +0000

It's been a very good year.

Back in May I was looking through my collection of PyQt tutorials and videos …

Etch-A-Snap — The Raspberry Pi powered Etch-A-Sketch camera

Martin Fitzpatrick — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 15:20:00 +0000

Etch-A-Snap is (probably) the worlds first Etch-A-Sketch Camera. Powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero (or Zero W) it snaps photos …

Gyroscopic 3D wireframe cube — Using a 3-axis gyro for live 3D perspective

Martin Fitzpatrick — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:00:00 +0000

This little project combines the previous accelerometer-gyroscope code with the 3D rotating OLED cube to produce a 3D cube which …

3-axis Accelerometer-Gyro — Measuring acceleration and orientation with an MPU6050

Martin Fitzpatrick — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 08:00:00 +0000

Measuring acceleration and rotation has a lot of useful applications, from drone or rocket stablisation to making physically interactive handheld …

Dictionary Views & Set Operations — Working with dictionary view objects

Martin Fitzpatrick — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 06:00:00 +0000

The keys, values and items from a dictionary can be accessed using the .keys(), .values() and .items() methods. These methods …

Creating a 3D wireframe cube with MicroPython on an OLED display — Basic 3D model rotation and projection

Martin Fitzpatrick — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 07:00:00 +0000

An ESP2866 is never going to compete with an actual graphics card. But it has more than enough oomph to …