CPD Update 2018 – Part 1 Over the past week or so I have been working hard to update my CPD and CV. Firstly on the 16th of Feb I attended a Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness course. This was presented by the Children’s society and held at the Foyer in Torquay. I found out…
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Child Protection course 2018
Child Protection course 2018 Having completed the on-line section of the Child protection course hosted by Torbay Council I-learn system. I am now booked on the classroom part of this course which is scheduled for 24/2/2018. I will be attending a Child Sexual Exploitation awareness course on Friday 16th Feb, so this week. Trying to…
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Exeter Pi Jam Feb 2018 This month was the usual mix of robots, raspberry Pi, arduino, etc About 12 – 15 workstations were set up with a range of activities to choose from: Scratch ScratchGPIO Python PythonGPIO Minecraft hacking with the Minecraft API software as well We also had various robots based on a…
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Exeter Raspberry Pi jam Saturday 3rd Feb 2018 sees the next Raspberry Pi jam taking place at Exeter Library, as usual the will have Pi’s, Micro:bits, Arduino, electronics etc. So lots of hacking, learning and fun, as well as the usual chat, help, advice and support. Should be good. See you between 10 and…
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January 2018 We set the room up as usual and implemented a new table layout for the Physical computing are, which myself and Matthew worked out in Early December 2017. This worked really wall as the horseshoe shape allowed 3 sides to get access to hardware while leaving a larger area, sectioned off with chairs…
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Safer Internet Day 2018 This year’s Safer Internet Day (SID) celebrations will take place on Tuesday, 6 February 2018. The 2018 theme, “Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you”
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OGG CAMP 2018 I am re-posting this to my blog, having found it on Google+ . This means it will get re-posted to G+ and also posted to my JoinDiaspora account. Do you OggCamp? If so, you might be interested…. OggCamp, the premier unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking,…
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Minecraft Pi GUI – Update Back in 2016 I started work on a Python-Tk program that can interact with Minecraft-pi. At the time there were a few bugs I got one or two features working. I have now ‘finally’ got round to hacking this further and fixed a few features and tidied up the…
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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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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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