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Also, pretty much no one had an Archimedes machine. i knew only one person with an Archimedes, at least they claimed to have one but I never actually saw it I had one at home for a while well a BBC A3000, probably with a Nimbus too, but that's something different. Either way the Masters where used ...

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Just fire up Beebdroid on your android tablet/phone, then if you can get past Repton and chickie egg and Frak and Twin Kingdom Valley and ... Or buy a cheap old pc and fire up some other emulator if you want to do some basic basic with the kids. We did that, he enjoyed the simplicity of it. Then mov...

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Hotspot the phone. No communication needed then, just let the Pi join the WiFi and use the Internet etc.

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Do you get anything from gpsmon ?

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That's interesting as I know of one University (uk) that gives a pi to all the new students going for their course. It in many a UK senior school, not all as many also see no point. It is on the shelf in many a UK primary school, some may use it but they don't have the knowledge to teach it. Many do...

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I believe, at least I am talking, when you type python or last time I checked opened something in the gui it would launch the v2 idle. Unfortunately I guess its because python2 is just called python normally, rather than launching with python2 like you do with python3? (From the command line/box) Al...

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Raspbian uses python v2 by default. Given that v3 is the latest and there seems to be a trend of moving towards v3 for new projects, why don't Raspbian use python v3 by default? Because Raspbian follows Debian and Debian still uses python2. The python2 vs python3 stuff has been a complete mess for ...

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Why not just go with Python3 and leave Python2 behind. The Python website and documentation has the difference for each part iirc. Just remember Raspian is still behind at Python 3.4 While most beginner site are targeted at beginners, there is a good reason for that ;-) It shouldn't take you long an...

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Roboto is still used, apparently nothing has been altered. But a new engine thingy is used... From the official release blog on the main page. Fonts Steve Jobs said that one thing he was insistent on about the Macintosh was that its typography was good, and it’s true that using the right fonts makes...

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Raspian is the OS
Pixel is the GUI used on Raspian.

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The switch was very easy, thank you :-) Now that bit about instruction for making it all work from windows python ... ;) I wouldn't mind if somebody knows, why the direct edge fall/rise didn't work though, out of curiosity. Times via pigpio are all 0.05ish seconds or more and always trigger using ei...

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Hi, I have an LDR setup with a laser shining on it, LDR at the top of a potential divider, Resistor at the bottom -> create a switch on a GPIO pin It switches 'OFF' when the laser is broken (and is immune to normal light in the room with this combination as the resistor is set for this) GPIOZERO cod...

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I thought the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B already didn't have onboard WiFi. I guess I am wrong about that. I am confused. Do I need some upcoming model.. or is there something available right now without WiFi? Thanks You seemed to be implying you would like the Pi3, I think that is the reason for the re...

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oh and while you're at ti, you can test your code here quickly, https://trinket.io/sense-hat
you may need to put a sleep into your while loop?

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It looks like you need to alter your If/Else into the format given above. e.g. if temperature < 65: temp_background_colour = [0, 0, 100] elif temperature > 85 : temp_background_colour = [100, 0, 0] else: temp_background_colour = [0, 100, 0] Which check for cold so blue, hot so red and anything else ...

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You could bypass the USB and connect directly to the serial UART gpio pins.(for this TX->RX RX->TX is needed) does gpsmon see it ? It should see a Ublox device natively without the need for anything else (It's a ublox5 device iirc) No, I can't see it, I think that my GPS Bee is no compatible with s...

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We would need your code for that.

copy and paste it all in code brackets faq.php?mode=bbcode#f2r1

personally if not at the command line then leafpad that RPF put in is much easier than nano.

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I'm a Pi user with an interest in IoT. I have a Pi Zero running OpenHAB and will soon be moving to OpenHAB2 on a Pi 3. Talking to OpenHAB at the moment are a ESP8266 devices logging the temperature from the living room and fish tank and another ESP8266 logging the temperature and humidity in the ba...

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You could use the 'button' feature of gpiozero. 3V would be 'on' as soon as it gets to less than ~1.8V it would be 'off' What is the rate of internal discharge you have at the moment, perhaps you just need something to dump it all through? It might be wastefully but at the moment your adaptor has no...

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Awesome! So it sounds like the following folks may be interested: @hussainpatel @Massi @besimmo @Laurens-wuyts @Graymalk @mattlewis @casperb82 I'll send you all a PM now. If I misinterpreted your interest, I apologize--feel free to let me know you're not interested in chatting and you won't be both...

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In Primary Schools. Most should have access or installed Scratch on their computers. Coding is now part of the curriculum pretty early on now. You may find, they do not have pen drive access and only a teachers computer does, even then in some school and probably increasingly so, even locked down (t...

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There are a lot of the above I am having a look at. I've not seen anyone have a problem moving from scratch to say python once they find scratch a bit restrictive, other than being bothered to actually type code in. I see nothing wrong with Visual systems, wish they became more powerful really as ma...

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Depending on your product, you may want to have a chat with Farnell to see if a customised Pi might work out better.
I have no idea of costs or quantities or lead times. But it may be something to look in to.

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GameMaker if it's games they like. Takes Scratch game making to the next level, my son moved over pretty quickly. You can get down and dirty with some code if needed. Graphics are import in, but then they should get used to some proper art applications if needed or find Apps to do it for them in a f...

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Yet people buy NOOBs and Raspian on SD cards...

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