The next meeting of the Paignton Library STEM Group is this Saturday 14th January 2023, 11am to 15:00
The purpose of the Paignton Library STEM Group is to encourage and support participation in STEM subjects. Our event aims to create a friendly hub for STEM enthusiasts to share, collaborate and learn. Please do bring your personal STEM projects to the event, we would love to see what you are working on.
I found details of some coding are detailed in a previous post.
Activities are being planned, and may change depending on who attends.
We can probably do more with the Raspberry Pi & Micro:bits.
There is a young coders contest coming up in 2023, that runs from January to May. The video below is from the 2022 contest
Mastodon User Stats 31/12/2022
The past few months has seen the fediverse gain a huge number of new users. While mastodon, which is part of the fediverse, has seen new users. Other services; such as Peertube, Pixelfed, have also seen an increase in users.
As we move in to 2023. It is hoped the fediverse will see more expansion as more people adopt decentralised social media and realise there is another world out there. The future is looking good.
300th Birthday: Axel Fredrik Cronstedt & Biodegradable Plastic
Just sharing these posts posted by Chemistry Views on Mastodon.
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt is credited with the discovery of the Metallic Element Nickel, and is also considered the considered a founder of modern mineralogy.
In other news “Biodegradable High-Density Plastics: Polyethylene-like material can be composted industrially and hydrolyzed by enzymes”
Another useful resource posted from Mastodon. LibreText, free amd open text books on a range of topics. Great if you want an introduction to a subject.
The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
Embedded post – for reference
A good reason to join the millions who have joined Mastodon. If you join then please feel free to follow me on @[email protected] as I try and boost interesting toots such as the above.
As there are a few people who remember the BBC Micro, I am sharing a few related resources that keep the computer alive in the form of simulators and or emulators.
Well worth joining Mastodon and the fediverse for all the really great content that is starting to appear. The advantages is there is no one of the data collection, tracking, advertising, AI or other irrelevant nonsense. which makes for a much better experience online.
Just downloaded and installed LibreOffice 7.4.3. The following instructions and video should illustrate the process. I did make a few errors and corrected them during the video.
Download the latest .deb from LibreOffice website
Copy to a sensible location and switch to that location
2a. In Debian you can right click on the graphical file manager and **Open Terminal Here.
Extract the .tar.gz file **tar -xvf file.tar.gz
Switch to root using **su -i ** (unless you want the path error shown in the video
Navigate to where you extracted the .tar.gz file
type **dpkg -i *.deb
This SHOULD install everything, set up Libreoffice and place components on the menu system.
If you are interested in Earth Sciences and have joined or are looking to join Mastodon. You may find list of people who have joined and have an interest in one of the many Earth Science fields.
