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
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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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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The November issue of Linux voice (soon to be integrated with Linux Magazine) had a tutorial on creating a simple IRC bot. (ircbot1.py) I have been experimenting with this and have put the code on github various irc chat botshttps://github.com/zleap/irc_bots1 forks.0 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: add function to allow bot to quit on user…
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Been doing more work with Scratch 4 Arduino. See previous post for information. Now that I have various LEDs working I have been looking at getting various sensors working. I did try the DHT11 but I need to work out how to interpret the data in scratch as it sends both Temperature and Humidity data…
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In a further update to this, I have now improved the code for this project. See comments on my tech jam post. This is still in need of refinement, for example I don’t need to load in the LCD module, but it IS getting there slowly. I have also found a python program…
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Yesterday I attended the Exeter Pi jam with Tom Brough and have put a write on the tech jam website. I have also downloaded the latest ToriOS image. This is so that I can carry on working on the JWM settings manager section for the manual. The ToriOS team are still looking for more…
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Further to part 22 of this blog series. I have now, through a lot of trial, error, hacking and experimentation with code got to the point where the LCD screen now displays wet or dry depending on the value of the analogue input. The code is below, it isn’t perfect but this works, so I…
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