Following my recent Debian 9.5 install, I was looking for a nice text editor. It seems since I last saw this gedit has had a major overhaul. Well done to the development team. Lot of what look like nice features. I have set the colour scheme to dark. Some of the menu options are…
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Updates May 2018
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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Ubumtu 18.04 was released yesterday. 18.04 is a long term support release. Lots of new features, Unity has been replaced with Gnome and Libreoffice has been updated to version 6. https://www.ubuntu.com/
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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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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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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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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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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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