Matrix Beginner guide
Matrix is “An open network for secure, decentralised communication” We have some rooms on Matrix which you can access via the contact page.
If you are not sure what Matrix is, please check the video below, which gives a beginner introduction.
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Flyer
This is my current STEM group flyer
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Dates : 2nd & 4th Saturday of the Month
Time : 10:30 to 15:00
Location : Generally room 12, First Floor, Paignton Library
Details :
We are a bring your own projects group. Bring along STEM projects and share with others, get help or share expertise with others.
Space available to work on projects etc, some items available but attendees are encouraged to bring own resources and items such as wire, components etc.
Please e-mail : paignton.library@librariesunlimited.org.uk for more details.
Major update announcement
We have decided to extend the STEM group to two Saturdays a month, so we will now meet on the 2nd Saturday as usual but also the 4th Saturday. The hours will now be 10:30 to 15:00.
We have room 12 available and will have some tables available for people to use. We want to keep this as one person (or small group) to one table. This gives people space to work on their projects.
A note on code club
Code club itself follows a specific set of activities, we had moved on significantly from this.
Code Club has therefore been shutdown. The IT learning centre will still be available to anyone wanting to carry on with what we were doing at code club. However, this will ONLY happen IF there is a library volunteer in the room.
There is no reason why code club can't restart once the computer room has been upgraded. For this to happen, we need two volunteers (who will need to apply to volunteer and undergo DBS and other background checks). Perhaps evenings after school.
We also need children and young people who are interested to sign up. As of Feb 2024. We can only really offer
Based activities.
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Mag Pi Books
The Mag Pi, publishes a monthly Raspberry Pi magazine and has also published several books that are also available as free downloads. These are excellent resources and can be downloaded from the Link below.
We have some of these available at Code Club and Stem group.
Other books
You can also download some freebooks from Goalkicker
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Resistor boards
This is a repost and update for a previous post.
The Paignton Library STEM Group
As the next Paignton Library Stem Group meeting is
Date : Saturday 9th April 2022 Times : 11am –> 15:00
In preparation for the next event, I have been working on creating some electronics resources to demonstrate at the event.
These are quite simple to make, solder on headers and which ever component is needed for that particular board
Various resistors 270ohm 330ohm 1k ohm 10k ohm
As of 23/3/2022 I have made up the following:-
Which I hope to use for demonstrating voltage dividers.
A few pictures of some previous boards, that I have built up.
Power supply, we need to get power from a battery to the circuit.
Reed switch (not soldered), 1uF capacitors (soldered) and a switch block, not soldered as I want to figure out which switch block to use (I have a few)
I have added a 3 way header as this allows for:
It should be possible to build a circuit that, internally will flash, for example an LED then use a scope to examine the frequencies at different points in the circuit.
I plan to solder up other component boards. Hopefully I will have something to demonstrate, but other visitors should be able to have a go.
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