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Getting a Raspberry Pi Up and Running

A few months ago I bought a Raspberry Pi starter kit that included a Raspberry Pi 3, a box for it, a micro-usb power supply and a micro-SD card with a suitable O/S loaded onto it. Today I tried to get it up and running… I put the SD card into the Pi, plugged the … Continue reading “Getting a Raspberry Pi Up and Running”

Replacing RobotLab…?

Somewhen around 2002-3, when we first ran the short course “Robotics and the Meaning of Life”, my colleague Jon Rosewell developed a drag and drop text based programming environment – RobotLab – that could be used to programme the behaviour of a Lego Mindstorms/RCX brick controlled robot, or a simulated robot in an inbuilt 2D … Continue reading “Replacing RobotLab…?”

Simple Text to Speech With Skulpt

On my to do list for many years has been getting my head round how Skulpt works. In case you haven’t come across it before, Skulpt is a small, client-side Javascript package that implements elements of Python in the browser. (Originally it only supported Python 2.7 syntax, but the master branch has now moved to … Continue reading “Simple Text to Speech With Skulpt”

Appropriating OpenLearn Content and Republishing Edited Versions Of It Via a “Simple” Automated Text Blogging Workflow

I had intended on using my (unpaid) strike days to catch up with some books and harp practice, and maybe even the garden, and keep away from the keyboard; or failing that, to have a push on my rally data tinkering and get another LeanPub book started to try to reboot the £50 a quarter … Continue reading “Appropriating OpenLearn Content and Republishing Edited Versions Of It Via a “Simple” Automated Text Blogging Workflow”

Educational Content Creation in Jupyter Notebooks — Creating the Tools of Production As You Go

For the last few weeks (and still and 2-3 more weeks to go, at the current rate of progress), I’ve been updating some introductory course materials for a module due to present in 20J (which is to say, October, 2020). Long time readers wil be familiar with the RobotLab application we’ve been using in various … Continue reading “Educational Content Creation in Jupyter Notebooks — Creating the Tools of Production As You Go”

A Personal Take on Customising Jupyter Via End-User Innovation

Following a Github discussion on The future of the classic notebook interface and the Jupyter Notebook version 7 JEP (Jupyter Enhancement proposal), a Pre-release plan for Notebook v7 is now in play that will see RetroLab, as was, the notebook style JupyerLab powered single document UI form the basis of future notebooks UIs. I’ve been … Continue reading “A Personal Take on Customising Jupyter Via End-User Innovation”

Notes on the JupyterLab Notebook HTML DOM Model, Part 9: Building and Distributing a Pre-Built Extension

So finally, finally… we’re at the point we can try to build an installable pre-built extension. To test the build, it first makes sense to uninstall the version we’ve been developing to date. Running pip uninstall doesn’t necessarily do the job, as described in the previous post, so you may have to scrabble around searching … Continue reading “Notes on the JupyterLab Notebook HTML DOM Model, Part 9: Building and Distributing a Pre-Built Extension”