The past week has seen a somewhat flurry of activity around a range of different issues. Firstly, I was contacted with regard to CoderDojos starting up in Devon. This is really exciting as it takes Code Club to the next level and extends participation to 7 – 17 year olds. There should be a…
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Futurelearn course update May 2018
I have decided to undertake my next future learn course ‘Teaching programming in Primary Schools‘. This covers using scratch to create simple and more complex programs. It is designed also cover the basic concepts in programming. Hopefully I can not only use what is taught to help me as a Teaching Assistant in schools…
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SCRATCH 3.0 August 2018 will see a new release of the Scratch programming environment. Scratch 3.0 preview needs WebGL installed. I got scratch 3 working by installing chromium browser on my Linuxmint desktop.. This seems to have WebGL support built in, the default Firefox browser does not appear to have this. (I may be…
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The release of Ubuntu 18.04 should be This Thursday 26/4/2018. A quick duckduckgo search came up with the following youtube video on the new features. There is some more information here.
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Exeter Raspberry Pi Jam – April 2018 Presented by 2.times do, and held at Exeter Library This months Exeter Pi jam was really busy and varied. Held in the Rougemont room, there were lots of people including families all hacking away at various projects. Outside of the main room on the way in was the…
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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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ToriOS Testing 2018.1 ToriOS is a GNU/Linux Operating System built for very old computers (NON PAE) and for those who are interested and brave enough to build their own system the way they like from a fully working base with GUI and minimal installed packages by default. http://torios.top/ Latest testing iso available. Taken from…
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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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Arduino easy module shield Equipment required: Shield Arduino R3 uno Long nose pliers Scissors to open packet Upon opening the packet, you get a shield with a foam protective sheet. Fitting the board is easy(ish) partly as you need to align all pins carefully and if need be adjust the to suit the female…
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