I spent part of this afternoon installing ToriOS 1.5 on a netbook, with the view that having usedg the OBI installer software I could write instructions for the ToriOS manual which is my main project. However in order to write the manual you need to have access to the software or system you’re writing…
Continue readingCode Club 6/4/2019 : Write up
Another successful tech jam. We had about 3 children, probably due to it being the start of the Easter Holidays. Progress has now been made with the platform game being worked on, as well as other projects. It is all one big learning experience. We now have a parent joining us as a volunteer. We…
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I have updated an old netbook to Debian 10. This is a full install rather and overwriting the existing Debian9 -> upgrade I had previously. This is running the LXDE Desktop. The install went fine, and I have submitted a possible bug report as the installer seems to have Debian 9 in the banner at…
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Next code club is on Saturday 6th April 2019 at Paignton Library. More Scratch, Python and coding More basic info on our Code Club page. Link to the Code Club Projects page. Scratch Website Python Website W3 Schools Trinket Website Also looking forward to more discussions on Twine. If you have an exiting Scratch…
Continue readingToriOS 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…
Continue readingUpdate 2/4/2019
Been fairly busy recently. I am currently chasing up a few things post a recent CYPP (Children and Young people partnership) meeting. Hopefully something will come of my proposal for a skills group. I have also created a Voltage Divider calculator in Python. Nothing that special but useful for electronics. Details on github. A…
Continue readingToriOS Testing 1.5 Released
March 2019. ToriOS 1.5 has been released. ToriOS 1.5 is based on Debian 8 – Jessie. Can be downloaded from here. I have updated the manual to include fresh instructions for how to get the new version. We could really do with more documentation for related software, for example virt-manager (Virtual machine Manager) as…
Continue readingArticle 13 EU copyright directive
Accident 13 The European Union are currently in the process of implementing a legislative for a new copyright law. Part of the process are so called “upload filters” in Artikel 13 of that law proposal. These upload filters would require that every media that gets uploaded to any platform or website by anyone needs…
Continue readingScratch oddities
I have been trying to find a way for a Scratch Sprite to jump, so that it is possible to go and build platform type games for example. Having looked around the solution presented here appears to fit what I wanted to do. However a modified version can also be found here. The main…
Continue readingCode Club 16/3/2019 Write Up
Another successful code club, working on projects nicely. Some of the attendees are attempting HTML but I think getting a little stuck so going back to Scratch. This is fine, as Code Club is about having a go, and having fun, while learning. Collaboration is working really well. See everyone at the next Code…
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