• Armed Forces Day, Paignton Seafront, June 21st
• The English Riviera Walking Festival – 14th – 22nd June 2025
• Tinkerers – Saturday 28th June
• British and Irish Lions tour 2025
  • Fixtures
  • The Lions v Argentina Fri JUN 20
  • Western Force v The Lions Sat JUN 28
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• Fixtures and Summer international Fixtures

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• Exeter Pi Jam, Exeter Library. Sat 5th April 10am to 12
• World Health Day – 7th April
• International Day of Human Space Flight – 12th April
• World Quantum Day – 14th April
• Hardware Freedom day Saturday, 19 April 2025
• Earth Day – 22nd April
• Linux App Summit 2025, 25–26 Apr 2025,Tirana, Albania
• Tinkerers meeting – Saturday 26th April 2025 at 9:30 AM
• ESA Biomass Mission Launch – 29th April 2025
  
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• World Wildlife Day – 3rd March 2025
• World Engineering Day – 4th March 2025
• Mars Day – 4th March 2025
• World Book Day – 6th March 2025
• British Science Week – 7th to 16th March 2025
• TeX Live 2025 – 8th March
• Lunar Eclipse 13/14 March
• The Big Tackle in aid of Rowcroft Hospice – 15th March 2025
• International day of forests – 21st March 2025
• World Water day – 22nd March – 2025
• World Meteorological Day – 23rd March
• World Tuberculosis Day – 24th March
• Document Freedom Day Wednesday, 26 March 2025
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It was just myself and Helen at the Tinkerers meet up today. We had a look at my Arduino robot, which Helen has taken home to work on.

We spent a good deal of time testing Helen's Dragstar car.

This was the first opportunity to mark out a good 7m white line track and test how well the vehicle can run along the track.

Track was marked out in the STEAM discovery centre, as this has black flooring, each tile is 500mm so 14 tiles = 7m (7000mm)

Results were excellent. The dragster has Bluetooth so can send data back to a mobile phone.

Data is sent back to phone.

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March 29th 2025

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• FOSDEM 2025 – 1st to 2nd Feb 2025
• National Apprenticeship week – 10th to 14th February 2025
• Super Bowl LIX –  Sunday, February 9, 2025
• Safer Internet Day – 11th February 2025
• International day of women and girls in science – 11th February
• Darwin Day – 12th February
• I love Free Software day – 14th Feb
• Tinkerers Meeting 22nd Feb 2025
• OS-Sci hackathon 2024 – 21-22 Feb 2024
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• Isaac Newton's Birthday – 4th January
• RSPB Big Schools' Birdwatch – 7th January to 14th February 2025
• Penguin Awareness Day – 20th January
• Tinkerers Meeting 25 Jan 2025
• International Lego Day – 28th January

• Chinese New Year 2025 – year of the snake – starts 29th Jan

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Today we had an update from Helen with her Advanced Lego car, this is going really well and can find objects and now turns to avoid them. It can also display information on orientation on a small LCD.

After giving the hot glue gun a quick clean and repair. This photo is posed as the glue gun is still plugged in.

We carried on with building the cars, we have been trying to build for the last few sessions. The main issue is lack of suitable resources and having to use bottle tops for wheels, kebab sticks for axels and then trying to fit it all together, when we also have either faulty or unsuitable switches, some don't work properly,, and along with motors have been soldered up too many times.

I also checked on my Copper Sulfate crystals I started last week, the liquid has now evaporated leaving some crystals in the dish, not ideal, but I need a much better way to do all this.

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Saturday 9th March 2024

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The next Stem group event will take place on :

Date: Saturday Feb 24th 2024 Time: 10:30am to 15:00 Location: Paignton Library and Information Centre Room: 12

Please remember you need to bring your OWN resources such as wire, solder, glue sticks, components etc.

We can carry on with :-

• Robot car projects
• Have a look at the results of dropping a gummy sweet in to Vinegar
• Hopefully have a look at some Copper Sulfate crystals, I set this up on 17/2/2024
• Coding activities can still take place in the IT learning centre
• What ever else people bring along to the event.
  

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So today there were a total of 4 people who attended, Helen demonstrated various robots made from Lego. We also carried on making the poor man version with scraps of card, scraps of wire, motors and milk bottle tops. This method is NOT working, but it is ALL we have access to.

Cardboard Car 1

Cardboard Car 2

Lego car 1

This robot is mega advanced, has the ability to range find so it knows where it is in relation to obstacles, has a build in IP camera, and can move, by next meeting more features will be added. It also uses an IR remote control.

Something to aim for when you start building projects.

Lego car 2

This robot car just moves very fast across the room.

We also tried to do more chemistry but ended up just adding vinegar to bicarbonate of Soda.

I will try and get the Lego We do sorted out for next time, as I need time to pick up the Tablets, then will need help to get them to connect to the Lego via Bluetooth, which I struggle with.

Next Stem group meeting is on Saturday 24th Feb at Paignton Library, room 12, between 10:30 and 15:00.

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The next Stem group event will take place on :

Date: Saturday Feb 10th 2024 Time: 10:30am to 15:00 Location: Paignton Library and Information Centre Room: 12

We will probably carry on with the robot car we have been working on and see what people bring with them to showcase.

Please remember you need to bring your OWN resources such as wire, solder, glue sticks, components etc.

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