Ubuntu 19.04 released today Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) should be out Today. More information and download links on the Ubuntu Website. Ubuntu 19.04 comes with new features and fixes to previous releases. You can find a link to the Release notes here.
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ToriOS Manual Update 3/4/2019
I have updated a manual with a basic section on setting up virtual machine manager. https://github.com/zleap/ToriosManualv21 forks.1 stars.0 open issues.Recent commits: Add section on setting up virtual machine manager, Paul Sutton README.md updated from https://stackedit.io/, Paul Sutton Update README.md, GitHub Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/zleap/ToriosManualv2, Paul Sutton add updated manual – new get torios section…
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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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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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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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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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We have corrected a few errors and updated the Tech Jam poster. Please download and share. Thank you.
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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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