Paul Sutton – personal blog
Nasa’s Parker mission
Nasa’s Parker mission poised for solar ‘landing’ in 2024
This mission was launched in 2018. As this part of the mission draws to a close, a Fediverse post reminded me about it. This link to france24.com has some more information.
Lots of exciting things happening in 2024. this will be the first of many.
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Code Club Electronics 17
So, further to the previous post earlier. I made a quick video showing the motor and code in action. Paper is on just to make it easier to see the motor moving.
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Code Club Electronics 16
Just been looking at the Arduino Motor shield. First off I found some example code along with the all important motor shield library which can be found here
The library is compressed, so once downloaded, I used the Arduino IDE tool to prepare the library software so it can be used.
The video below just shows how to do this. You still need to include the library in your sketch code with:-
#include <AFMotor.h>
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Code Club 6/1/2024 reminder
The next Paignton Library code club will be on the 6th Jan 2024. We will carry on with what we were doing in previous sessions. This is mostly fixing laptops and also looking at building some electronics projects.
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#CodeClub,#Python,#HourOfCode,#Scratch,#Minecraft,#Themes, #Java,#Programmng
LaTeX : Course takeaway – Page Orientation
I am still undertaking the EdX LaTeX Course, however one of the useful takeaways so far for me is to use the pdflscape package rather than the lscape package.
I have made a video which illustrates the difference between the two.
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This is just basic usage but it should be enough to get started.
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#Writing,#LaTeX,#Overleaf,#pdflscape,'#lscape,#Portrait,#Landscape#PageOrientation
Taking Back the Web
Taking Back the Web with Decentralization: 2023 in Review
Interesting article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on how 2023 has been an interesting year.
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Let's make 2024 another year of change and take back the web.
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LxTerminal on LinuxMint 21.2
While the terminal application on LinuxMint is nice. I prefer to use LxTerminal (which I think is the default in Debian). I have made this video to illustrate how to install a different terminal within LinuxMint.
Once done, you can unpin the terminal application from the panel.
This can also be done from the software centre, but it makes sense to do this from the terminal as it is a terminal application being used.
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Code Club Electronics 14
I want to build something for the science kit to make it easier to stir liquids. I have found a project for a DC motor controlled by a potentiometer. that also uses an Arduino microcontroller. This should be easy enough to build and attach a stirrer to. This can be soldered up, battery attached, power switch may also be needed.
Should then be easier to stir liquids for science experiments.
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#Arduino,#Electronics,#Science,#Chemical,#Stirrer,#DC,#Motor, #Control