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Visit to Exeter Pi Jam - April

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:00:52 +0000

Visit to Exeter Pi Jam – April

I went up to the Exeter Pi jam today and took my old AIY voice kit with me, spent some time with Trevor trying to get this working.

We downloaded the image from the AIY Projects website. As my version of this was, we think from 2017, (or that was the date on the magazine I got with it) then we tried the two images that were released for that year.

We downloaded and wrote the image fine, but both kernel panicked when booted, so further investigation needed.

Other projects included a weather station and a cycle helmet equipped with two cameras and some neopixel strips.

Next Event

Next Exeter Pi Jam, Exeter Library. Sat 3rd May 10am to 12

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Simple motor and fan

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Simple motor and fan

I have built this as part of a robot car project, However this set up works better as a stand-alone fan, than it does to drive a small wheeled vehicle forward. So sharing anyway.

Given the problems, give me a Chemistry set any day.

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Electronics,#Fans,#Motor,#Switch,#Projects

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Code Club 19/8/2023 Write up

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:32:41 +0000

Code Club 19/8/2023 Write up

So this week, we started the attendees with more Hour of Code activities. We are slowly starting to move towards learning text based programming languages and away from Scratch.

The hour of code activities allow for block programming but the resulting block code be viewed as java based code which is really useful for building that link.

In order to support this I had a go at Mario secret advantures which helps to build some of the many important features of gaming, movement, collision, scoring etc.

I have just made a video and uploaded to peer tube, my system is a little slow so I have left out the music part, but the main point of this exercise is to use loops to reduce code needed.

Next code club 2nd September.

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Code Club 19/8/2023

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:16:07 +0000

Code Club 19/8/2023

The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 19th August 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club and hour of code projects and hopefully also the Python Projects.

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Code Club 5/8/2023

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 16:49:50 +0000

Code Club 5/8/2023

The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 5th August 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club projects, hour of code and some more Rocks and diamonds.

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Code Club 22/7/2023 Write up

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 12:48:15 +0000

Code Club 22/7/2023 Write up

We had three new starters today, so as everyone is interested in Minecraft, I started everyone off with the Hour of Code Minecraft activities. This went really well,. kept everyone engaged with lots of valuable learning taking place.

I have also figured out how to set up Rocks and diamonds so we can skip completed levels and carry on from where people got to previously. I need to do this as the computers reset each time they are turned off, which means that progress data is also lost.

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Next Code Club

The next code club is August 5th

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Code Club 22/7/2023

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:24:25 +0000

Code Club 22/7/2023

The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 22nd July 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club projects, hour of code and perhaps hour of code. Probably some more Rocks and diamonds.

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Code Club 1/7/2023 writeup

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 17:16:20 +0000

Code Club 1/7/2023 writeup

So today we did more of the usual coding. I spent some of the time trying to fix the issue I had with the Pi pico routine I have been working on. Please see earlier post.

This now appears to be fixed (or at least working a lot better than it was) and there should be video and photos up on the library website and social media pages.

I will get a video made for this and uploaded to peertube and post the new code block in a new post.

Next week is the STEM Group on 8th July 11 to 15:00 at the library.

I have put some of the links from this below as a list.

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If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track your own progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.

As before if you would like to save work, please sign up for a scratch or Trinket account so you can save project progress and carry on at home or at the next session.

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Code Club 1/7/2023

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Code Club 1/7/2023

The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 1st July 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club projects, hour of code and perhaps hour of code.

Perhaps some more discussions around Technology, AI, Coding, etc.

I spent some time Friday afternoon setting up the room

I have put some of the links from this below as a list.

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If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track your own progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.

As before if you would like to save work, please sign up for a scratch or Trinket account so you can save project progress and carry on at home or at the next session.

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Code Club 17/6/2023 reminder and update

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:31:18 +0000

Code Club 17/6/2023 reminder and update

The next Paignton Library code club is on Saturday 17th June 2023 10 am to 12:00. We will carry on with with the Code Club projects. The write up from last session is here and the write up from Saturdays STEM group event is here.

I spent some time Friday afternoon setting up the room

I have put some of the links from this below as a list.

Useful Links

If you also sign up to the Raspberry Pi foundation, you can track your own progress and collect badges. This is optional, as this presents more ways for data to be collected.

As before if you would like to save work, please sign up for a scratch or Trinket account so you can save project progress and carry on at home or at the next session.

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