Code Club 18/6/2022 Write Up
Next code club is :-
Saturday 2nd July
10am to 12:00
Paignton Library & Information Centre
So a busy session today. Before the session started, I set up a drinks station with a jug of water, bottle of juice along with some paper cups.
Today, attendees worked on Scratch, HTML / CSS, I also had two attendees complete Hour of code. I also helped an attendee with their laptop, in so far as connecting to a monitor as their laptop screen is not working. They left with an HDMI cable so they could at least use it at home connected to a TV or monitor.
I think hour of code is a really good icebreaker for sessions, esp as the theming for Minecraft, Starwars and Frozen should appeal to a wide range of users.
Lucy also dropped in with a notebook and a large lever arch file for the STEM group resources.
During the session the four netbooks were also charged. These will be used to help teach the GNU / Linux command shell and Shell scripting to who ever is interested, however this also links in with wider projects to help people who want to self host.
So some really good work today, people are already booked in for the next session. I am still working on getting the lego Mindstorms working.
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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch,#Python,#WebDesign,#Lego,#Coding,#Education,#LookingForWork,#LegoWeDo,
#Replit,#OpenToEmployment
- The next Code Club will be on Saturday 2nd July 2022 @ Paignton Library,
- Next STEM Group meeting is 9th July 2022.
Please contact Paignton Library for details and booking.
Torbay Trojans Training Sunday 19th June 2022
Next training session is on Sunday, 10am to 13:00 at Foxhole playing field.
We are now going to prepare for our next fixture on 17th July, which will be Bristol, Away.
My job for Sunday, is to mark out a field area with cones and yard markers. This will help the practice session, player positioning etc.
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#Trojans,#Football,#Training,#AlwaysTrojan
Fixtures
Fixtures 2022
10/4 – Bristol – Home
17/4 – Somerset – Away
15/5 – Bristol – Home
29/5 – Cornwall – Home
5/6 – Somerset – Away
17/7 – Bristol – Away
24/7 – Somerset – Home
7/8 – Cornwall – Away
Code Club 18/6/2022
Next code club is :-
Saturday 18th June.
10am to 12:00
Paignton Library & Information Centre
So more of the same, Scratch, HTML/CSS, Python. I am looking to start also running through the BASH command line series at some point. I have some netbooks set up for this, so there can be a practical element to learning too.
These videos were part of the cybersecurity series. However this is now being refactored in to a more comprehensive series about using the GNU/Linux command line, bash scripting, text editing and more.
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#CodeClub,#FreeCodeCamp,#Microbit,#Scratch,#Python,#WebDesign,#Lego,#Coding,#Education,#LookingForWork,#LegoWeDo,
#Replit
- The next Code Club will be on Saturday 2nd July 2022 @ Paignton Library,
- Next STEM Group meeting is 9th July 2022.
Please contact Paignton Library for details and booking.
Lego Mindstorms
We have sone Lego Mindstorms at Code Club, which has remained largely unused until now. Partly due to lack of time and or expertise to figure it out.
As I am helping at a digital leaders club, we have been trying to use the lego owned by the school, as with the Lego Mindstorms both the NXT and RCX bricks are no longer supported.
Step in the Brick Pi, obtained from the same school as the Lego (not the school I am running this club at). Despite the Lego sitting in a cupboard for a few years, it still boots up and I can actually run a motor fine. So a good starting point.
On Thursday, I will be taking this in to the digital leaders club, so that we can hopefully experiment with it.
This is the best I can do at the moment, hopefully installing scratch Link will allow Scratch 3 to talk to the existing rxc or the nxt block I am using, but that belongs to code club.
Should give us some scope to undertake more Lego Mindstorms at the library.
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#CodeClub,#LegoMindstorms,#BrickPi,#Scratch,#Engineering,#Coding,
#LookingForEmployment
Nations League 2022-3
England's next Nations league match is against Hungary at 19:45 today.
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#Soccer,#NationsLeague,#England,#Hungary
CyberSecurity part 28
Series ending
After 27 parts, this series is now coming to an end.
The BASH series is going to be given a new home. In order to facilitate this, it is being re-written and will form part of a larger project.
As this is now taking up my time, it makes sense to end the and focus on the new format that it will be presented in. I am also getting some help from a few very capable young hackers with this.
Nevertheless, the new format will look better and be more useful than a video and a list of commands that are just a summary of the video.
In other news, the Tuxiversity forum and website (below) are also going to be overhauled.
If you wish to ask questions about the current series, I am available via Internet Relay Chat (zleap), as are other members of the team behind this project.
To chat on IRC, please click the link below, enter a new nickname and press start. You should be then taken to the chatroom.
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#CyberSecurity,#Series,#Ending,#Announcement,#IRC,#tuxiversity
Nations League 2022-2
England's second Nations league match, resulted in a 1-1 draw against Germany
England are now looking to their third game, hope to pull off a victory against old rivals Italy at 19:45.
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#Soccer,#NationsLeague,#England,#Italy
Bash su vs su – commands
Working with the command line, you sometimes need to drop to root in order to carry out administrative tasks.
You can either use su or su –, but what is the difference? Firstly lets look at the path (where bash looks for programs etc) with a normal user.
psutton@Desktop:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
If we use the su command then, we end up with the same path, this explains why some programs won't run.
psutton@Desktop:~$ su
Password:
root@Desktop:/home/psutton# echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
root@Desktop:/home/psutton#
If we use the su – command then bash picks up the path set up for the root account, so that path points to some of the directories containing admin tools.
psutton@Desktop:~$ su -
Password:
root@Desktop:~# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin
root@Desktop:~# exit
Both of these scenarios are useful, depending on what you want to do as root user.
Add wifi firmware to Debian
I was sent a new wifi adapter along with some other kit. On Sunday, I had a go at getting this working. So while most of the UK was watching the Jubilee pageant, I was working to get this hardware working on my desktop.
First task, is to work out what the hardware is as detected by the system. Therefore, as root
dmesg – which revealed the hardware for the wifi adapter.
[ 493.681212] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[ 493.681216] mt7601u 1-5:1.0: Direct firmware load for mt7601u.bin failed with error -2
[ 493.681841] mt7601u: probe of 1-5:1.0 failed with error -2
From this information, I undertook a search for mt7601u.bin on
This revealed I needed package
firmware-misc-nonfree
In order to install this, I needed to edit my sources.list file, in order to add, in non free
cd /etc/apt/
nano sources.list
and append, see where I have added non-free,
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
#deb-src deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib **non-free**
After doing this:-
Then to make changes take effect, run:
- apt update – re-reads sources list
- apt install firmware-misc-nonfree –> to install specified package(s)
LibreOffice Documentation 6/7/2022
Documentation update(s)
LibreOffice 7.3 guides (Published)
- Getting Started 7.3
- Writer 7.3
- Impress 7.3
- Draw 7.3
- Custom shape tutorial 7
- Base 7.3
Pending
Calc, Math
PUBLISHED 7.2
All guides now fully published
- Getting Started 7.2
- Writer 7.2
- Calc 7.2
- Impress 7.2
- Draw 7.2
- Math 7.2
- Base 7.2
REFERENCES
1 LibreOffice
2 LibreOffice Bookshelf
2a LibreOffice Documentation
* LibreOffice shortcut keys
3 Free Software Foundation
4 Free Software Foundation Europe
5 LibreOffice Conference
6 7.2 blog documentation announcement
7. Udemy LibreOffice Training
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#Draw,#GettingStarted,#Documentation
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