Python package updated to 0.3.0

Python Blinkstick package has been updated to 0.3.0.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/BlinkStick/

This version has the following improvements:

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Postman detector with web enabled camera, BlinkStick and Raspberry Pi

blinkstick-raspberry-pi-postman-detector

Quentin Stafford-Fraser came up with a brilliant idea on how to combine web enabled camera, BlinkStick and Raspberry Pi to give him a notification whenever postman arrives at his door. It also gives a great overview of BlinkStick package for Python.

Check out his original blog post with embedded video and links to all of the tools and software packages used to achieve this neat hack!

It’s so great for me to see hacks like this. This is the main reason why I created BlinkStick in the first place: to be a simple tool that lets you use it in ways that I could have never imagined! 🙂