hardware — Paul Sutton

Assembler programming

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:20:20 +0000

Assembler programming

**Updated 5/4/2025

I am gathering some resources here on programming using ARM processors. Also provided some resource links for x86 based architecture too.

ARM

RISC V

iA86

Other

tags

#Programming,#Development,#Assembler,#ARM,#x86,#IA-64,#RISCV,#Pine64,#Pine,#Assembler,#Hardware,#Boards

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Tinkerers - Torbay

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Tinkerers – Torbay

This is a new group, formed out of the Stem group at Paignton library, it is aimed at adult tinkerers, project builders etc and hopes to bring like-minded people together.

We enjoy experimentation, Tinkering etc.

So far we have a website and a discord group, please get in touch as Discord is invite only at present.

Tags

#STEM,#Torbay,#Hacking,#Tinkerers,#Hardware,#Software,#Firmware,'Science,#Tech,#Art.#Maths,#Engineering

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Code Club 25/11/2023 Write up

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 14:02:26 +0000

Code Club 25/11/2023 Write up

We had a busy session today. As you can see from the photo, we did more work on the netbooks.

We were also doing more Scratch and some HTML / CSS.

I have added more links below to try and reflect our current set of activities.

I was also helping another attendee with electronics, even though I think what he wants to do is a little complex for the resources available and requires more engineering and or electronics knowledge.

As well as the above, Helen from the STEM group was working on getting the line following robot working and also getting the Lego WeDo working, so we now have a small Lego robot that can detect obstacles, as well as a basic Lego Windmill, which we can look at this during the next STEM group meeting on the 9th December.

Next Code Club

The next code club is on 2/12/2023

Tags

#CodeClub,#Python,#Web,#Hardware,#Software,#Electronics, #STEM

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Index

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:59:28 +0000

Index

A #AI #AbsorbtionSpectra #Abuse #Academy #Activism #Adenine #Afghanistan #Africa #Alphablocks #AMES #AminoAcid #AmnestyInternational #AMOC #Analytics #apg #Api #Apt #Aptitude #AralBalkan #Archaeology #Arduino #ARM #Artemis #arXiv #Assembler #AstroBiology #AstroChemistry #Astronify #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Atlantic #AtomicStructure #Atmosphere B #BlueGhost #bash #BASH #BASHShell #BashScripting #Bashscripting #BatchProcessing #Beamer #BepiColombo #better #BibTeX #BigBluButton #BigOil #BioChemistry #Biology #BioMass #Blender #Blog #Bonfire #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Browser #Bullseye #Buster C #Castopod #Charity #CheatSheet #Chat #Chemistry #Chrome #Chromium #Climate #Code #CodeClub #Coding #Commons #Conditions #Conference #Console #Cornwall #Corona #CoronaVirus #Cosmology #Covid19 #cpd #CPD #Creative #CreativeCommons #CreativeEducation #CriticalThinking #CrudeOil #Cryptpad #Crystal #CTAN #CyberSecurity #Cytosine #Commands D #DarkMatter #Data #DBS #dcglug #dclug #Debconf #Debian #Decentralised #Decentralized #DeepLearning #Derived #Detox #Development #Devon #Diaspora #Digital #DiodeZone #Discussions #disroot #Disroot #dna #DNA #Docker #Documentation #Donate #Donation #Draft #DRM #Drupal #DosBox E #Editing #Education #EdX #Electronics #Elements #Element #emacs #Email #EmissionSpectra #Employment #Energy #EnergySavingWeek #Engine #Engine #ESAof #Ethics #Ethiopia #EventManagement #Events #EveryonesInvited #Exoplanet #Exploration #Euclid #Editor #Endof10 #endof10 #FalconsEye #Federated #Fediverse #Firefox #Flockingbird #Football #FootBall #Fosdem #FOSSandCrafts #FossileFuels #Foundation #Framablog #FramaBlog #Framework #FreeBSD #FreeBSD #Freedom #FreeSoftware #FreeSoftwareDirectory #Friendica #Friendica #FSF #FSFE #Funkwhale #Fusion #FutureLearn #ffmpeg G #Galaxy #Galculator #GameEngine #Games #Games #Gamma #GDPR #GettingStarted #Ghostreply #Gimp #Git #Gitlab #GitLab #gm #GNOME #GNU #GnuSocial #GoAccess #GoatCounter #GoDot #gold #Gopher #GPL #GraphicsMagick #Greek #Guanine #GUI H #Hack #HackerPublicRadio #Hacking #Hardware #Hexchat #HomeChemistry #HomeChemistry1 #HomeChemistry10 #HomeChemistry11 #HomeChemistry12 #HomeChemistry13 #HomeChemistry14 #HomeChemistry15 #HomeChemistry16 #HomeChemistry17 #HomeChemistry18 #HomeChemistry2 #HomeChemistry3 #HomeChemistry4 #HomeChemistry5 #HomeChemistry6 #HomeChemistry7 #HomeChemistry8 #HomeChemistry9 #Hosting #HPR #htop #Hubble #Hubzilla #HumanRights #Hypothesis #Help I #Image #ImageManipulation #Index #InfoGraphic #information #Inkscape #Invidious #IRC J #JamesWebb #Jit.si #Jitsi #JoeEditor #JoesOwnEditor #jpl #JPL #Jupyter #JupyterNotebook #JWST K #Kanban #kbin #KCSIE #KDE #KeepingChildrenSafeinEducation, #Kenya #kstars #KeyBinding L #LaTeX #Law #Learning #Lecture #Legal #Legislation #Lemmy #LGPL #LiberaPay #Libre #LibreAdventure #LibreLounge #Librem #Libreoffice #LibreOffice #LibreOfficeCalc #LibreOfficeDraw #LibreOfficeGettingStarted #LibreOfficeImpres #LibreOfficeWriter #LibrePlanet #Linux #LinuxMint #Lua #Luanti #Luanti #LXDE #Lynx #LPI #LinuxFoundation M #Magnesium #Management #Manganese #Map #Mapscii #Mars #Mastodon #Materials #Matomo #Matrix #Maya #Meeting #Meetings #mercury #Mercury #Meta #Micro.blog #mining #Misskey #mobile #Mobile #Mobilizon #Mobilizon #MolarSolutionCalculator #Moon N #NaCl #Nano #NationsLeague #Nebula #NetHack #network #NewSkillsAcademy #Nextcloud #NFL #NGINX #Nuclear #NuclearFusion #Nucleobases #NASA O #Ocean #Oil #OilProducts #Online #Online #OnlineSafetyBill #Open #OpenData #OpenLearn #OpenStreetMap #OpenUniversity #Orbitals #OU #Overleaf #Owncast #OwnCloud P #Package #Parker #PaigntonLibrarySTEMGroup #Pandas #Paper #ParticlePhysics #Particles #Password #Payment #Paypal #PDF #PeerTube #PeriodicTable #Phonics #Photo #Photograph #Photographs #Photos #Physics #pinebook #pinephone #PixelFed #Planet #Plausible #Pleroma #Plume #Podcast #PowderToy #Privacy #Production #Products #Programming #ProtoSchool #Public #Purism #Python #Python3 Q #Quark #Quarks R #RadioAstronomy #Reading #Recovery #RedBubble #RedCabbage #Research #Rights #RISC #RISCV #rna #RNA #RocksAndDiamonds #Rookie #RookieCamp #Rust S #Safeguarding #SaferInternetDay #Safety #Salt #Schools #Science #Science #ScienceDaily #Scismic #Scratch #Scratch2 #Scratch3 #SDTJ #Seagl #Security #Simulator #Sitejs #Skymaps #smallweb #Soccer #Social #SocialHome #SocialHub #SodiumChloride #Solarus #Solid #SouthDevonTechJam #Space #Stars #STEAM #Steam #Stellarium #Stickers #Stripe #stsci #Symmetry #Synaptic #Satellite #SuperTuxKart #ssh T #Tinkerers #Tailings #Talk #Teaching #TeachingAssistant #Techlearningcollective #Telescope #Terminal #Terms #TeX #TextEditor #TheOpenUniversity #Theory #TheOU #Thesis #Thunar #Thunderbird #Thymine #Tilde #Toot #Top #Topic #Torbay #TorbayTrojans #Transit #Translation #Trojans #Trunk #Tuxiversity U #Ulytsheavy #Umami #UN #UnitedKingdom #UnitedNations #UniverseOfLearning #Uracil #Use #users V #Vaccine #Virgo #VLC #VokoScreen #Volunteer #Volunteering #VultureNethack #vultureseye #vfsync W #Warming #wayland #weatherinfo #Website #WhiteVinegar #wicd #wireless #Wordpress #Work #WorldCup #WorldSpaceWeek #Wormhole #Write.as #Write freely #Writing X #Xchat #XenonLamp #XFCE #XFCE4 #XMPP #xorg #Xournal #xray Y #YearOfTheFediverse #YH4F #YouthHacking4Freedom #YouthHackingForFreedom Z #Zoo #ForeverChemicals #PFAS #TFA

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Code Club 7/10/2023 Write up

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 13:44:55 +0000

Code Club 7/10/2023 Write up

We had four of the regulars today. It was a mix of coding in Scratch but also sorting out some of the netbooks, trying to download Win 7 and get this copied on to a memory stick so we can install. First attempt to dd the iso file failed, second attempted worked but ended up with the device not booting or being seen by the netbook.

So a good session.

Useful Links

Next Code Club

The next code club is on 21/10/2023

Tags

#CodeClub,#Python,#HourOfCode,#Scratch,#Minecraft,#Themes, #Java,#Programmng,#Hardware,#OperatingSystems

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Raspberry Pi - Micropython book

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0000

Raspberry Pi – Micropython book

I now have a copy of the Raspberry Pi, MicroPython book which is aimed at users of the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board.

I will bring this to the meeting today, along with some other resources. I also bought a Raspberry Pi Pico. I can experiment with this at home before Saturday.

So hopefully, we can do some more hardware / software hacking with this.

#PaigntonLibrarySTEMGroup,#CodeClub,#Python,#Hardware, #Hacking

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Amazon's Ring used to spy on customers, FTC says in privacy settlement

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Amazon's Ring used to spy on customers, FTC says in privacy settlement

Posted to the Fediverse yesterday. This is a stark warning about how technology can do what it wants, and how when we don't have access to the code that makes it work, we don't know what it is doing.

A good reason to support software freedom

Amazon's Ring used to spy on customers

You are better off with a RaspberryPi and a Camera Module along with a suitable programming language such as Python and hacking your own.

We can perhaps discuss at a future STEM Group.

Tags

#Amazon #Ring,#Privacy,#Spying.#Alternative,#FreeSoftware,#Python,#RaspberryPi,#CameraModule,#Hardware,#Hacking

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Mobile Devices

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 19:35:45 +0000

Mobile Devices

Mobile Devices

I decided to write this article after reading the Free Software Journey article. This is part of the wider FSF Freedom Ladder

This article cites several projects that address Mobile phone freedom. There are different hardware options here, from dedicated phones running a FreeOS or ways to flash / install an existing phone with a new freedom respecting OS (sorry if the terminology is wrong here).

Android Based

Other

As you can see from the above list there are quite a few options, some are forks of Android, so I assume that Free Software repositories such as F-droid works and can provide a good range of Apps for users. See below as I am trying to find out about this.

However my area of concern is things like the Mastodon Apps It seems the only Freedom respecting app for Mastodon is Tooter, which is available for another OS called SailfishOS, so yet another option, so we have a really good, powerful social media replacement, but it seems rather limited connectivity from mobile devices, (unless you are running IOS or Android).

I don't feel this is very helpful. Sailfish, to its credit does have what looks like a very good section on development. I feel that for these alternatives to really take off, the apps need to be there, and not just in the hands of developers, but end users such as myself. I am not interested in using mainstream social media.

Also we need to make it clear if an app works on other systems that are derived from Android for example. (see below)

So we need several things

More developers for the actual operating systems
- Help for people wanting to start with development
More development for the hardware
- Again help for those who want to get involved
Testers, and help for testers
End users to actually use the system
- Provide a very easy way for non technical people to report problems
- Community need to LISTEN to concerns, reports and take action
Ensure ALL these apps are available on ALL the different mobile OSs or as many as possible.
- This will need developers, testers and users being able to come together.

Links

Paignton Library STEM Group

Free Software and Hardware

Working on some ideas

I have created a thread here on Fediverse Town to try and ask for some information on which apps work on which mobile operating systems, so Android and importantly Android derived Operating systems.

I have also split the OS list up, so that the OS's derived from Android are clearly identified.

I am not making the assumption they just work or that they are in F-droid.

Updates

31-1-2022 – https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-clients

TAGS

#Hardware,#Phones,#Free,#Open,#Privacy,#Mobile,#mobile

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Small web episode 4

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:25:53 +0000

Small web episode 4

Live streaming on a budget

EP 4

So this week, Aral and Laura looked at how they live stream their episodes.

Laura talked about accessibility, using subtitles, transcripts and the various tools available to help with that.

Aral then talked about the different hardware / software used for live streaming, mixing video, etc. If you are interested in live streaming video then it is really worth watching for that,

REFERENCES

A few of the links mentioned

Subtitles and Captioning

Streaming

Next episode Thursday 28th Jan 2021 @ 17:00 UTC

TAGS

#YearOfTheFediverse,#small-tech,#livestreaming,#transcript,#software,#hardware,#streaming,#video

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Discussion on Open Hardware

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 20:12:32 +0000

Discussion on Open Hardware

The foss-north crew discuss and explain copyright and licenses. In this episode, Javier Serrano joins us and discuss open hardware and how open licenses work in that space.

Foss North

#cern,#freesoftware,#licensing,#open,#hardware #opensource

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