Python on Salman's Blog

Developing a Flask App & Deploying on AWS

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 06:13:58 +0000

Flask is a lightweight Python web framework. It’s lightweight nature makes it a great candidate for creating APIs. In this tutorial, I’m going to cover how to make a simple RESTful API service with Flask and host it on AWS.

First, we’ll make a basic Flask app and use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy it. Then, we’ll use Zappa to deploy a serverless app to AWS Lambda. For more information on serverless architectures and how Zappa works, check out the About section on their GitHub page.

Nomad Rover

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 07:43:53 +0000

This was a hackathon project for Mission Hacks 2018. The theme was to create something that can be used by a hypothetical group of colonizers to establish a settlement on “New Earth”.

Our team decided to tackle the issue of exploring the new landscape. We envisioned a fleet of autonomous drones and rovers that would traverse the new planet and identify known elements while also taking various measurements and creating a map. The team name “Nomad” came from the idea that we were going to wander about the New Earth like nomads.

Adaptive Corrosion Protection System

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 06:50:17 +0000

I worked on this project as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Integrative Bio-Engineering Research (CIBER), a lab in SFU’s Faculty of Applied Sciences headed by Prof. Bozena Kaminska. The goal of the project was to develop a corrosion protection system using cathodic protection. It would measure soil conditions, calculate protection current and corrosion rate and supply protection voltage.

We forked an open-source project, DStat, that some researchers at University of Toronto had been developing. I worked on the GUI that would interface with the hardware module over serial USB.