ToriOS Manual Update 6 ToriOS manual is stored on my Github repository, as always the team are looking for LaTeX \ LyX hackers to help. Please see the ToriOS website for information on contacting the team. Minor update made today : 13/3/2018. Added detailed information for installing using the OBI installer , which is…
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DWP Project 4
DWP Project 4 Another session at the DWP today in Torquay, Controlling a PiStop with Scratch1.4 using the Pi GPIO pins, this went really well and we got a nice sequence of lights going. Next session we will be starting to look at WordPress. So this will be setting up a free WordPress thinking about…
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ToriOS Manual Update 4 ToriOS manual is stored on my Github repository, as always the team are looking for LaTeX \ LyX hackers to help. Please see the ToriOS website for information on contacting the team. Minor update made today : 30/1/2018. Mainly in the Install /download section. ToriOS Manual on Github Git clone…
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Further to a recently created page regarding the programming languages behind the various decentralized social media networks. I was provided (via Diaspora discussion) with a far more comprehensive list on Wikipedia. This list can be found here. This list also includes the language and licensing for each of the social media networks listed.
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January 2018 Tech Jam The next tech jam is on Saturday 13th January 2018. 12:30 to 15:00 This month we have the usual physical computing activities set up We also have Shelley from Encounters Arts dropping in to do a workshop on the Chrysalis mobile hackspace being developed so a good chance to find…
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Last night, I decided to have a go with Tmux the terminal multiplexer. This is a really useful utility that can if used in the right way improve productivity. In this example I have top running on the bottom window with a blank terminal not running anything at the top, in some ways this can…
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I have recently replaced my broken Arduino UNO R3 with a new one. I am now experimenting with a HC5883L 3 axis magnetic compass module. Details here With the official page here. (recommended) You will also need to download libraries.rar from http://www.ardumotive.com/digital-compass.html and extract it in to your libraries folder, then restart the Arduino IDE….
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Anyone following this blog will know that I am involved with ToriOS. ToriOS is a GNU / Linux based system designed for low power and low memory systems, hence support for non-PAE hardware. ToriOS is currently in the late stages of development, and we would like more testers for the daily build iso files. More…
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As my notepad program now has an option to encode text using ROT13, I have written a very basic (and rough) program to just do that. The program is very basic, and just encodes the text, the code is as follows: For reference the original code can be found here. The program is more…
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This evening I soldered up the Traffic light project I blogged about in Part 8 of this series, this was the first of the two projects as in just a red , yellow , green sequence. There isn’t really room on here to have the 2 x 3mm leds for red / green man. This…
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