Paul Sutton – personal blog
Extract Iron from Cornflakes part 1
Now that Paignton library have resources for undertaking science practicals, I have started to set up a practical to extract Iron from Cornflakes.
So far I have just used a mortar and pestle to crush some cornflakes up in to a mostly fine powder.
Code Club 20/8/2022
The next Code Club will be on Saturday 20th August 2022 @ Paignton Library, we will carry on with what we are doing, mostly Hour of Code, block based programming, Scratch and the Free Code Camp responsive web design course.
We need MORE people in Torbay to come forward and run Code Clubs. Code Clubs could really benefit from working together too, so we can share expertise to benefit those who attend. We can then come together at STEM group meetings and share further.
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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch,#Python,#WebDesign,#Lego,#Coding,#Education,#LookingForWork,#LegoWeDo, #Replit,#Minetest
Next session
Please contact Paignton Library for details and booking.
Artemis 1 – Mission
NASA is heading back to the Moon, the Artemis rocket has now left the VAB and made its way to the launch site at KSC, in Florida.
This unmanned rocket is due to launch at the end of August, if all goes well it will pave the way for more missions back to the moon over the next few years and beyond.
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Torbay Trojans Recruitment
The Torbay trojans are actively looking for new players for Adult contact football (18+) for the 2023 season. Rookie camps TBA.
Flag players (16+) are also welcome..
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Fixing debian package problems
I had an issue while updating the STEM group laptop earlier, after asking on IRC I ran apt install -f which gave me the following, which I pasted to paste.debian.net
root@zleap:/home/zleap# apt install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
bsdmainutils libsasl2-modules libtexlua53 libwacom-bin ncal rpm-common
telnet
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
texlive-lang-french
The following NEW packages will be installed:
texlive-lang-french
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 448 not upgraded.
415 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/82.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 111 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 374220 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../texlive-lang-french_2022.20220722-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking texlive-lang-french (2022.20220722-1) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive '/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-la
ng-french_2022.20220722-1_all.deb' (size=82270524) member 'data.tar': lzma error
: compressed data is corrupt
dpkg-deb: error: <decompress> subprocess returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-lang-french_2022.
20220722-1_all.deb (--unpack):
cannot copy extracted data for './usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/plain/apprendre-a-p
rogrammer-en-tex/fonts/libertine-legacy.zip' to '/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/plai
n/apprendre-a-programmer-en-tex/fonts/libertine-legacy.zip.dpkg-new': unexpected
end of file or stream
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-lang-french_2022.20220722-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The offending package seemed to be
texlive-lang-french2022.20220722-1all.deb
Asking on IRC, it was suggested that I remove this file from
/var/cache/apt/archives
which I did, then re ran
apt install -f
Which seems to have fixed the issue as I can install software normally now.
Paignton Library STEM Group – August 2022 Writeup
The August STEM group meeting took place on Saturday 13/8/2022. It was a quiet meeting but fairly productive.
I partly set up a monitor / keyboard and mouse as I was expecting 2 attendees to come along for help with a Raspberry Pi. They didn't make it so we just carried on with the other planned activities.
We watched the August Space Telescope Science Institute public lecture ( recording ) and had an interesting discussion around this, which also led to a discussion on photography and infra red and UV filtering. Harding also offered a talk on Space and time, which we will discuss further and agree for a later date.
Prior to the meeting starting, and with help from Loic at the library, we set up a tablet with the Lego WeDo 2.0 and got this working. So this is another activity for both Code Club and a future STEM Group meeting.
The next two Code Club will take place on the 20th August and 3rd September, while the next STEM group meeting will be on 10th September. So hopefully more of the same.
#STEM,#Science,#Space,#JWST,#Activities,#Coding.#Discussions
How to run Jupyter notebooks locally with password
How to run Jupyter notebooks locally with password and no token? – Stack Overflow
Pandas data science tutorial
So following on from previous posts, here is a Tutorial for the Pandas data framework (if that is the right term). Hopefully it is useful.
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How to Install Anaconda (Python) and Jupyter Notebook on Windows 10
Further to my post on Jupyter notebook, I am posting a link to another tutorial on how to install Anaconda and Jupyter notebook on Windows 10.
If you are using Linux or another operating system then there are other tutorials that will cover this.
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Nancy Grace Roman Telescope
The Space Telescope Science Institute have more telescopes in the pipeline, notably in 2026 the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. The institute give various lectures as part of the public outreach programme.
The Roman's Key Science Components looks at some of the areas that the Roman Telescope will undertake.
I will look at making the Roman Science and Technical Overview available at the [STEM group] (https://personaljournal.ca/paigntonlibrarystemgroup/)) meetings, but hopefully we can discuss further over time.