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Code Club Electronics 17
So, further to the previous post earlier. I made a quick video showing the motor and code in action. Paper is on just to make it easier to see the motor moving.
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#DCMotor,#Arduino,#Demonstration
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Code Club Electronics 16
Just been looking at the Arduino Motor shield. First off I found some example code along with the all important motor shield library which can be found here
The library is compressed, so once downloaded, I used the Arduino IDE tool to prepare the library software so it can be used.
The video below just shows how to do this. You still need to include the library in your sketch code with:-
#include <AFMotor.h>
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Code Club 6/1/2024 reminder
The next Paignton Library code club will be on the 6th Jan 2024. We will carry on with what we were doing in previous sessions. This is mostly fixing laptops and also looking at building some electronics projects.
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The next code club is 20/1/2024 : 10am to 12:00 Tags
#CodeClub,#Python,#HourOfCode,#Scratch,#Minecraft,#Themes, #Java,#Programmng
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NFL 2023 week 17
NFL week 17 fixtures can be found here
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LaTeX : Course takeaway – Page Orientation
I am still undertaking the EdX LaTeX Course, however one of the useful takeaways so far for me is to use the pdflscape package rather than the lscape package.
I have made a video which illustrates the difference between the two.
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This is just basic usage but it should be enough to get started.
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#Writing,#LaTeX,#Overleaf,#pdflscape,'#lscape,#Portrait,#Landscape#PageOrientation
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Taking Back the Web
Taking Back the Web with Decentralization: 2023 in Review
Interesting article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on how 2023 has been an interesting year.
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Let's make 2024 another year of change and take back the web.
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LxTerminal on LinuxMint 21.2
While the terminal application on LinuxMint is nice. I prefer to use LxTerminal (which I think is the default in Debian). I have made this video to illustrate how to install a different terminal within LinuxMint.
Once done, you can unpin the terminal application from the panel.
This can also be done from the software centre, but it makes sense to do this from the terminal as it is a terminal application being used.
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#LinuxMint,#Terminal,#LxTerminal,#Install
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Code Club Electronics 15
I just found this, a way to connect the DC Motors we have at STEM group to some Lego, to make cases.
Could be useful.
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Code Club Electronics 14
I want to build something for the science kit to make it easier to stir liquids. I have found a project for a DC motor controlled by a potentiometer. that also uses an Arduino microcontroller. This should be easy enough to build and attach a stirrer to. This can be soldered up, battery attached, power switch may also be needed.
Should then be easier to stir liquids for science experiments.
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#Arduino,#Electronics,#Science,#Chemical,#Stirrer,#DC,#Motor, #Control
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Linux and disk images
From time to time there is a need to take files on a device and convert these to something else.
First example, if you have installed media for a Linux OS on a flash disk, and you want to re-create an ISO file from this, the following may be useful.
Similarly, you may have a SD card or flash disk with a set of files, that you want to back up, you could copy the files to another device OR create a disk image that can be stored and later copied back on to an SD card for example.
Note: I have included links to the videos which are stored on my peer tube account.
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