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Category Archives: Arduino

South Devon Tech Jam Meeting

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Paul Sutton
South Devon Tech Jam – Virtual Meeting
We are back,  Just virtually using Big Blue Button – video conferencing
Saturday, January 9, 2021
11:00 AM
to 2:00 PM GMT
Details from our Meetup page.
contact e-mail for more details  : info AT sdtj DOT org DOT uk
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Holsworthy Coderdojo

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Paul Sutton

Anyone who has been following the list recently will be aware of Tom, from Holsworthy who has been setting up a Coderdojo in Holsworthy.

Today, it was announced,  this is now all set up.  Please go here for more information.   I have added the details to the other events page.

We wish Tom best of luck with this venture and hope that it grows and does well,  which I am sure it will.

Paul

Posted in Arduino, coderdojo, coding, education, Events, hacking, Hardware, Linux, lug news, programming, Raspberry pi, Software, workshop | Leave a comment |

Cornwall Tech Jam – June 2018

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Paul Sutton

JUNE CORNWALL TECH JAM

The next Cornwall Tech Jam takes place on 9th June 2018 at Cornwall College.  Further details on this can be found here.   Photos from the April Jam can be found here.

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Torbay Tech Jam Nov 2015

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Paul Sutton

The next Torbay tech jam is on the 14th November at Paignton Library 1 – 3 pm

More details are on the website

Open to all ages / abilities.

I am hoping to be able to present a mini workshop on Interfacing the Raspberry Pi to an LED,  it is a start and hopefully the work shops can build up to more complex projects over time.  Also I want to do the same thing with Arduino.

 

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Exeter Raspberry Pi jam

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Paul Sutton

The next Exeter Raspberry Pi Jam is on 7th November 10 – 12 at Exeter Library,  Rougemont room,  first floor.

Check out the website for more information

Exeter Library are holding another Build a robot workshop over 1/2 term.

Exeter Raspberry Jam blog

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Build a robot take 2

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Paul Sutton

Exeter Library are holding another Build a robot workshop over 1/2 term.

Build A Robot Project

This half term: Build a robot in a team of 4 to win a prize!
Ages 8+ / 20 places available
£40 for 4 sessions including light refreshments

The sessions are 10 am-1pm:
Mon 26th Oct
Tues 27th Oct
Wed 28th Oct
Thurs 29th Oct
all sessions must be attended for you to win
Tickets available from Exeter library or by phoning 01392 384223
More details on the
Exeter Raspberry Jam blog

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Raspberry Pi jam 7th March

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Paul Sutton

Today saw another really good Pi jam in Exeter.

Demonstrations included a Pi based home automation system,  which also included a webcam which takes a photo of whoever presses the doorbell and e-mails you a picture.

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Led Traffic lights ( I think this is PIC based) – Tom Brough

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Toms latest robot (crazy Ivan)  this moves around, and can turn randomly and move forward again.

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Sadly marco mark 2 had a problem, so was here but just not working as planned.

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Pi Ready for eager coders to use.

 

Lots of people with new Pi’s in need of set up. so I did quite a bit of support here,  also minecraft-pi was popular and people seemed to like my modification which drops tnt blocks over grass.

Robots will make another appearance at next weeks Torbay Pi Jam 14th March, Paignton Library from 13:00

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Torbay Raspberry Pi jam – Feb 15

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Paul Sutton

This months Pi jam was a real gem,   lots of things being demoed and some excellent progress being made with various projects.

Tom, brought along his Marco 2 robot,  which if you are following this blog or are a regular attendee of jams.  This has now been updated to allow control via a web interface.

More information on this is on the Feb 2015 Exeter Jam write up blog post.  So I will let people go there for more info.

Tom also brought along Freddie and after some basic set up this worked fine,  following a green ball with his eyes.

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Video taken back in July


Doodle bot also made an appearence this is really good as it works without any user interaction and can draw (or try) to draw what it has been programmed to.

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We also helped a lady get up and running with her new pi,

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Here is the pi being installed from the NOOBS install tool

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And a picture of the pi running the Raspbian OS after install.

I also demonstrated my Minecraft Pi coding with python.  I will post a video to youtube and put this on my website blog.

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We also helped out a user who had an older install of GNU / Linux on his PC (Debian)  and wanted a newer GNU / Linux installed so flash player would function properly.

We were unble to help fully however he will be back at the next jam iwth his PC backed up so we can install Linuxmint 17.1

One of our younger members also worked on getting a cluster of computers up and running and thanks to a router / switch donated by Rick at Wifispark he got 2 laptops and my Pi up and running and proved that by sharing the load calculations can be performed quicker.   There is a dedicated page for this on the website.  Where results will be posted shortly.

We also had a Dan from the TDA drop in to see what was going on with the view on how they can help further and perhaps involve some of the local hi tech companies.

So a BIG thank you for everyone involved today and everyone who came along to support the event.  Hopefully next month will be more of the same and perhaps even bigger and better.

We also had Sarah from Inspiring Dreams, Achieving Change, who offered to help promote what we are doing.

The word on the Pi jams IS spreading.  which is a good thing.

See everyone on the 14th March 2015 at Paignton Library.  13:00 to 15:00

 

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Jan PI jam Poster

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Paul Sutton

Here is a poster for the January Pi jam.  If anyone is able to print off or display on their website I would be very grateful as this really helps to promote.

flyer 4-JAN15-web

 

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Pi Jams – What we try and do

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Paul Sutton

With monthly Raspberry Pi jams in Paignton,  what would you like to see at these jams.  Given they are now more about just raspberry

At present we :

Help on how to get started,  what you need to get started, what to buy etc

Show you some of the many add on boards etc available for the pi

Demonstrate projects based on the PI AND Arduino systems (which will hopefully inspire your projects)

Help with getting started with programming or provide advice  on the next step for example where to go after using scratch.

We have a few laptops (with Linux)

Help with hardware projects (either stand along or linked to Pi , Arduino and similar devices)

Networking with other users

We would like to encourage young people to network with other young people and advocate collaboration and peer supported learning

We sometimes invite people in,  for example in September we had the virtually safe team in who spent some time discussing the concerns of the young people at the jam
We also try and advocate other groups and initiatives that may be of interest to young people: for example Young rewired state, coder dojos, after school clubs. Promote events for adults for example hack4good events or hackathons on services such as geekli.stWe can also help with Linux user group related activities such as install and set up help for Linux. Advice on software or general discussion on related issues.Promote and advocate the use of free and open source software and the work of the Free software foundation Europe..Advocate and promote the new school Computer science curriculum. Enguage with parents, students and teachers in order to facilitate support if needed.Promote STEMnet and Stem activities. Free giveaways such as stickers if available,  copies of Linux cd’s again when / where available.

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