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Anthony is qualified in baseband hardware electronics and system design engineering having worked for a handful of mobile phone and mission-critical comms companies. Now works in another industry which is also an all encompassing passion of his; aviation. Also a self confessed gadget geek, Scotch malt whisky fan, cyclist and now fledgling Pythonista in training. Can often be found building robots using micropython with his two sons at weekends. Active participant of the #100daysofcode course. Follow his progress on Twitter at @Anthlis.

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  • Watermarking photos? “I can do that in Python!”

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    My wife is setting up a business from home and wanted to protect photos of her work submitted to social media sites and the web in general. “I can do that using Python!”, I exclaimed, thinking I had seen a tutorial showing how ages ago. Laptop open, I set to work and found my bookmarked tutorial. It was using OpenCV2 and even after ~70 odd days of my #100DaysOfCode journey, I didn’t really understand it well enough to configure it myself if I had to make changes. (OpenCV is on my list of things to do after my #100Days). I…