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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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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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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## December 2017 write up. This month was another successful tech jam, with lots going on. The Physical computing section was set up early with Pi’s, monitors etc, along with some extra monitors for use by visitors. This area has become pretty much self sufficient. This month, we again had our switch setup, so each…
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You can now remotely connect to your Raspberry pi with RealVNC. There are more details on the Raspberry Pi website blog post. After a little bit of experimentation. I have got this working, still needs a few tweaks, but I have now enabled the option to allow Minecraft pi to be displayed inside…
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If you are like me and have several clients (any type) connected to your network and probably to the router, then it is important to be able to keep track of things. For example I can ssh in to my pi as I know its IP address, however there are times when for some reason…
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