Books about the ideas hiding in expired patents, the inventions that changed our lives, evolution in code, and running the internet without a middleman. Read them, run the code, and pass them on.
Hundreds of clever algorithms were locked inside patents for twenty years. Now the patents have expired and the ideas belong to everyone. Each volume tells the story behind the algorithms and rebuilds them as working Python code.
pip install patentml
Every algorithm in the series is in the free patentml Python library.
patentml on PyPI →
The stories behind the inventions we live with every day, from the surgeon's robot hand to the rocket and the seatbelt, told through the patents that have now passed into the public domain.
pip install patentml
The expired-patent data behind these books comes from the same project.
patentml on PyPI →
From dogs to DNA to algorithms: how breeders shaped the greyhound, how Mendel cracked inheritance, and how you can build evolution yourself in plain Python. Written for young developers, with no libraries to install.
How a neighbourhood can run its own platform with no one in the middle, from a single node with a chip in it to a village that hosts itself. The examples are plain Python that runs on an ordinary computer or a Raspberry Pi.
