[Project] Print song lyrics in real time on cash receipts

Using Python and Bash I wrote script that lets a label printer print the lyrics of the song I’m currently listening to on Spotify. To understand the inspiration behind this project, we need to look at self checkout stations at the Swiss retail store Migros.These self checkout station have a fatal flaw in my opinion. They will always print a receipt - even if you don’t want it. (UPDATE: Since about November 2023 the Migros checkout stations let you decide if you you want a receipt or not. yay!!!) ...

July 28, 2023 · 3 min · Alain Sinzig

[School] Emotional Language in Frankenstein

In English, we had the opportunity to analyze aspects of romanticism in the book “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. As emotions and thus emotional language are of utmost importance in romanticism, we decided to write a script that helped us to gather the necessary data to analyze different emotions throughout the text. We were able to compile a list of words and match them to 7 different emotions. Our program checked how many times each list of words was used in each chapter. Finally, we were able to draw a graph that displayed to which extent each emotion was presumably present in each section. ...

December 20, 2020 · 1 min · Alain Sinzig

[Project] Studyflash

I created a python application for learning flashcards inside your terminal (for language learning) Click here to check it out.

September 26, 2020 · 1 min · Alain Sinzig