## December 2017 write up. This month was another successful tech jam, with lots going on. The Physical computing section was set up early with Pi’s, monitors etc, along with some extra monitors for use by visitors. This area has become pretty much self sufficient. This month, we again had our switch setup, so each…
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Debian 9 : Stretch
The next release of the Debian OS 9.0 (Stretch) is scheduled on 17-6-2017 More details on this announcement can be found on the Debian mailing list Archive. https://www.debian.org/
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Parts 2 and 3 of this series seem to be in limbo until I figure out what the issues are. However I have now solved another issue. With the server PC, I have on-board graphics and an AGP slot with a graphics card in. This AGP card was enabled for the install. I found…
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I have been doing some more work on my note pad program, The gui still looks the same as before. Just made the actual window size bigger. The following forms the changelog from previous versions # notepad 5 added a 2nd menu and also added an exit dialogue box # notepad 6, added open and…
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Just coded this to make a few LEDS flash Works quite well, but still pretty standard stuff. I now need to code something more useful.
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Today I installed the BrickPi disk image to a SD card and tested this in on of my Raspberry Pi’s it boots up fine and has lots of neat items on the desktop. So looking forward to getting back in a school to experiment with this properly with a BrickPi.For those of you who…
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What happens if you draw turtle graphics with the help of the python random module? so rather than being explicit in how far it goes forward or how much of an angle the turtle turns while drawing. The result is something like this when you add a degee of randomness to the program.
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Newer downloads of the Raspberry Pi Raspbian image come with something called mathematica and wolfram, the latter is a language to a the mathematica maths program. This takes up nearly 500mb of diskspace. If you don’t require this software you can remove it with sudo apt-get remove wolfram-engine You may need to delete the icons…
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For the purpose of clarity, here is the full magic 8 gui program, Feel free to copy / paste and run.
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Magic 8 GUI development Lets look at the program in more detail The main difference here is the addition of the ramdom module otherwise we are importing Tkinter as before As before we define the window, you will notice I have made the window size 300 x 100. This makes the…
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