The Times Educational Supplement is to use creative commons licensing for resources
more information here
A step in the right direction and shows how much power people have by campaigning for this to happen. .
Feb 15 PI Jam poster
Please could DCGLUG members share this so that the event gets really good promotion.
January 2015 Pi jam
Another pi jam today which went well, We had the 3 young people come along who are more serious hard core hackers so get on really well with each other
At present to get a laptop or PI to connect to the network we need to connect to the Libary wifi and enter a UID password then agree to the terms in a browser window
We tried to see if there was a different way to do this with a wifi router acting as a bridge so 4 laptops could connect to the router and that would provide a bridge between the wifi and the 4 wired Ethernet ports.
This didn’t seem to work 100 percent even though I did see the wifi router on my net book with 100 percent signal strength, compared to about 74 percent for the library wifi, So this project will carry on next month probably.
In another project they young people had a multi player mine craft game set up using the Pis.
Using the Model B for anything reminds you that if you plug and unplug things it can reset due to power issues,.
Jonathan who is an IT apprentice also came along to support and help and said he would ask about if there are any solutions to the wifi / network connectivity so that we can connect easier.
We had Raymond and his wife drop in for a chat and I showed them the DVD I am working on to explain about Creative commons / free software and the 4 freedoms.
Myself and Jonathan also helped Melvyn with his new phone and to check to see if it would charge when plugged in to his net book.
One of the visitors from last month came back and asked about suitable monitors etc so I advised him on a few options. including using a TV which i suggested is a good option if you want to use the media centre software. Some TV’s also have the VESA connectors at the back to which pi’s can be attached.
Photos are available on Mediagoblin
https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/zleap/collection/january-2015-pi-jam/
The next jam is on 14th February
New Content Jan 6 2015
I have added a lot of new content under the resources section, mainly more tutorials for mint but also some under the command line section.
I have also added a page on Diaspora, which is essentially the information from the thunderclap which ended on the 2nd Jan but I have just included the information directly relating to Diaspora.
File – Association
Applicable to : Xubuntu 14.04 and others
How to change the program that opens a file type. e.g a text file.
Go to settings manager which should be on the menu or an icon on the panel
Select MIME Type Editor
You then see the following
If you click the program name in the far right column, then you should get a list of options as to which program is used to edit that file type.
Changes seem to be immediate so closing the window should mean the changes take effect.
Browser choice to end
The deal that forced Microsoft to offer a choice of browsers for users of windows has / is coming to an end according to the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30501518
There are several alternative browsers avaialble
Firefox
https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/
Chrome
Seamonkey
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ This seems to be a whole suite of internet utilities. (browser, mail, chat etc)
Jan PI jam Poster
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.
Torbay Pi jam – 13-12-2014
Another pi jam today and it went very well highlights as follows
We helped on visitor get up and running and ended up re-creating an sd card with raspbian (1)on in order to get the Pi up and running. In the end Tom got everything up and running, with some help from myself as I seem to have an array of adapters and other bits and pieces which always seem to come in handy. Including various images on my netbook.
Our younger visitors were busy with various projects Arduino (6) hacking and getting Arch (2) Linux up and running in a virtual machine, (Virtual box) (3))
I have loaned out my pi-liter (4) to one of the younger visitors so he can demonstrate at school
1.) http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
2.) https://www.archlinux.org/
3.) https://www.virtualbox.org/
5.) http://shop.ciseco.co.uk/pi-liter-8-led-strip-for-the-raspberry-pi/
Support repositories for the pi liter
https://github.com/zleap/RaspberryPI
and
https://github.com/zleap/compgroup
Which has some ladder board source code, but should demonstrate the use of the GPIO.
You can also download the pi liter data sheet from the website http://shop.ciseco.co.uk/pi-liter-8-led-strip-for-the-raspberry-pi/
However you DO need to install python-pip with
sudo apt-get install python-pip
For some reason the data sheet instructions missed out this step.
The next Pi jam is on 10th January so if you get a Pi for Xmas come along and we can help you get started or show you what you can do with it. We don’t BYTE 🙂 and are happy to help.
Raspberry Pi in Space
The raspberry pi foundation are offering a chance to have your code sent in to space on 2 raspberry pi’s which will form part of science experiments on board the International Space station. This will be open to all primary and secondary school aged children who are resident in the United Kingdom.
For more info check out the post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog.
2015 Torbay Pi jam dates
The following dates (2nd Saturday) are proposed for the Torbay Pi jam, they should get booked in very soon.
10th Jan 14th Feb 14th March 11th April 9 May 13 June 11 July 8 August 12 September 10 October 14 November 12 December