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
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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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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Orange pi one plus Open hardware. Development platform similar to the Raspberry Pi, happy hacking 🙂 Orange Pi Website More information from Aliexpress. Brand Name: ORANGEPI Memory Capacity: 1GB Processor Brand: Allwinner Intergrated Feature: 10/100/1000Mbps Model Number: Orange Pi One Plus Interface: TF Card Support,HDMI/RCA Output,USB OTG Demo Board Type: ARM is it customized:…
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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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Cheap multimeter stand If you do hardware hacking and need to build circuits up for various projects. Having a multimeter is an essential tool. However trying to read one of these, when flat on the desk is very difficult, it is even more difficult if you try and prop this up on something. The expensive…
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