Another successful pi jam, Tom set up his latest project, on the pi, which uses a wii remote to control a helicopter flying over open street maps, this works very well and you can move around the map area, which was set for the locality of the Pi jam.
Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam – 11th January 2014
Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam – By Paul Sutton
The 2nd Raspberry pi jam in Torbay took place on the 11th Jan at the Library. A few projects were demonstrated. One of the projects being demonstrated was by Tom Brough, he built a raspberry pi robot last year and has been adding enhancements etc to it ever since. The robot now has the ability to scan a printed qr code, store it’s contents and then read these back and then move around.
Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam – 14th December 2013
A big thank you goes out to all who attended, helped and especially to Torbay Library services for all their help and Paignton Library for hosting us.
Exeter Raspberry Pi Jam – 23rd November
Photos from the Exeter pi jam on the 23rd November can be found here.
Pi jam
Write up from todays Pi jam can be found at the link below,
http://www.dcglug.org.uk/?page_id=881
If you missed out this time, you have missed out on some pretty cool stuff and super talented people.
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Reset the net
This is copied from the e-mail I had from info@sendgrid.net looks like Reset the Net had some effect but the fight isn’t over. Read on.
Reset the Net just won a real victory against the NSA, defending the privacy of millions. But we need your help to keep adding more sites, and protecting more people!Can you chip in to beat the NSA and save our democracy?https://donate.fightforthefuture.org/https://donate.fightforthefuture.org/?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0OTI3NzE3LGVtYWlsaWQ9ODc3MQ==
Dear Fight for the Future member,We know how to fight the NSA. Finally.It’s been one year since the Snowden leaks and, with Reset the Net, I feel like we just landed our first real punch, and got our first real result. Now the question is: can we keep fighting?Reset the Net worked so well. Huge services like Tumblr, WordPress, and Sendgrid announced new encryption that–thanks to Snowden–we know makes spying harder. Meanwhile, thousands of sites (including Minecraft, one of the world’s most-downloaded games) drove downloads of encrypted calling and texting tools all day on Thursday.Not a techie? Well, to the NSA, that means our private conversations will increasingly look like this: “I9XJKigrOgyymB1oEtF37xoKDzXuS5NbbRGT5Rq4GA1VCJYC”The scale of what we’re achieving is just staggering. Sendgrid alone delivers billions of emails each month. Now, those emails are encrypted, safer.So we can’t stop now, but this is intense work! Last week was a huge lift for our small team. We think we can get dozens, maybe hundreds more huge sites to step up. But to do it, we’ll need a full-time organizer: someone to approach sites, convince them to join, and plan more days of action. Can you donate to keep Reset the Net going?https://donate.fightforthefuture.org/Our?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0OTI3NzE3LGVtYWlsaWQ9ODc3MQ== tiny organization is facing a battle on two fronts. We are finally making dents in the NSA’s surveillance system, but meanwhile America’s cable monopolies are attacking the fundamental principles of the open Internet–the ones that make campaigns like this possible. Alone, either of these would be the fight of our lives. Together, it’s almost more than we can handle.But we think we can do both, and we have to: each win means so much. Reset the Net was 6 months of work. Now that the campaign structure is in place, we just need to keep adding sites to our roster, and encouraging sites who’ve already joined to keep pushing the envelope. We don’t need expensive design or development help, just one driven full-time organizer. Someone who can keep nudging this snowball forward, until it becomes an avalanche. Can you pitch in?https://donate.fightforthefuture.org/This?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0OTI3NzE3LGVtYWlsaWQ9ODc3MQ== is what victory looks like. Sincerely,Evan, Holmes, Tiffiniy and the whole Fight for the Future teamP.S. We are serious. If this email goes well we are hiring an organizer right now. Interested? Reply with links to work you’ve done.
Xubuntu 14.04 – screen shots
If you are using xubuntu 14.04 then pressing print screen takes a screen shot of the WHOLE screen, this is fine in some cases but gets a pain if you want to write documentation or want to grab an application window.
The solution is to change thekey bindings
Click on Settings manager
Search for keyboard
Click the short cuts tab
You then get a screen like the one above. if you look at
xfce-screenshooter -w (-w means window) by default this is set to Alt-print screen to trigger. I have already changed it, so click where it says Alt-print and change it to print. you may have to change the one above to something else otherwise they clash.
Press close and when you press print screen it should grab the current window.
Exeter Lug meet
The Exeter Lug meet is THIS FRIDAY 13th June from 7:30 at the Exwick Ark pre school in Exwick, Exeter.
exeter.lug.org.uk/ for info
Exeter Pi Jam
The Next Exeter PI jam is July 5th 2014 @ Exeter Library : 10 am to 12
Torbay Raspberry PI jam
Reminder : Torbay Raspberry Pi jam 14th June 2014 at Paignton Library 13:00 to 15:00