SOUTH DEVON TECH JAM WRITE UP – MAY 2019 This months tech jam was fairly busy. Firstly we had Paul, who Lucy met at the Exeter Pi Jam come down to help us with the electronics side of the Cloud Lamp project. Great progress was made but a little more work to do on this…
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Prevent Training 8/5/2019
Yesterday I attended a seminar on Prevent the Uk government programme to identify potential individuals who may act in a way that is violent or harmful. This workshop focussed on Far Right groups as well as Al-Qaeda, Looking at how the prevent process works and then looking how the Chanel program works. Really interesting…
Continue readingRocks-and-diamonds 2 : The Levels
Rocksndiamonds is a game based on the classic 80’s game Boulderdash. Please see previous post on this. Game info page(s) for Debian. Title : Rocksndiamonds Publisher : Artsoft Type : Puzzle My Levels : I have now created 12 levels, each have varying complexity and theme, but hopefully people will have fun playing them. These…
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The Debian presentation that I started working on a few weeks ago is now complete. I have had some help from Francisco M Neto. Francisco has pushed changes and updates to the source archive on salsa.github.com These are now merged, and are available at https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/presentations I have pushed DebianPresentation2.pdf which is the new version…
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This week we started to look at some tools that allows us to create our own game sound effects, then import these in to our Scratch Projects. Next time (18th May) we can do more of the same and look at some of other tools for graphics etc. Sound effects generator tool. One of…
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South Devon Tech Jam – May 11th 2019 South Devon Tech Jam, is a small group of enthusiasts, who organise monthly informal and friendly sessions for anyone interested in technology, regardless of age or ability. We hope those who attend our sessions will enjoy learning new skills and sharing experiences about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts…
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Quick update to this. The project is now also hosted on the Debian Gitlab instance at https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/presentations Feel free to chat further on the Debian-publicity mailing list and IRCchannel on OFTC.
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Rocksndiamonds is a game based on the classic 80’s game Boulderdash. Game info page(s) for Debian. Title : Rocksndiamonds Publisher : Artsoft Type : Puzzle My Levels : Coming soon (will be pushed to the Debian Gitlab Instance) The basic idea, is to move around the screen to collect diamonds, avoid being killed by rocks…
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———————————————————————— The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/ Updated Debian 9: 9.9 released April 27th, 2019 https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190427 ———————————————————————— I have updated to 9.9 without any issues. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch) Release: 9.9 Codename: stretch
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Next code club is on Saturday 4th May 2019 at Paignton Library. More Scratch, Python and coding. More basic info on our Code Club page. Link to the Code Club Projects page. Scratch Website Python Website W3 Schools Trinket Website Trivia : 4th of May has been dubbed Star Wars Day May the 4th…
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