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  • Attending GitHub Satellite 2017

    Yesterday I attended GitHub Satellite 2017 in London https://github.com/blog/2313-join-us-for-github-satellite-2017-may-22-23-in-london-uk The event was well attended and there was a good buzz around the conference. GitHub Marketplace was launched at the conference and some of the initial vendors in the Marketplace demonstrated how their applications can be used in the lifecycle of coding. You could watch demos…

  • Automating leaving a geolocation area

    Following on from my blog about Accepting automation and safeguards, in this post I will demonstrate how easy it is to set up a recipe from IFTTT (If This Then That) to use the location service to send a text to someone when I have left a Geolocation zone. There are other automation tools you can…

  • 10 Books I’d send to my younger self

    In H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”, the Time Traveler comes back from the future to take 3 books from a bookshelf in their study to return to the future. The reader (or viewer of the film) is left guessing which 3 books have been taken from the bookshelf and how they will shape the future. Thinking…

  • Accepting automation – Do we need safeguards?

    There are many and apps available to help us automate basic tasks on our mobiles and computing devices. When choosing these tools, we often read reviews and then download the app, run and set up, then let it run its tasks accepting that it will carry out our requirements. But what happens when there is…

  • Another step towards personal AI’s

    There have been many different attempts to create a J.A.R.V.I.S type of AI system to act as a personal assistant, able to interact with you and automate things.  (If your not sure what J.A.R.V.I.S is then you need to look up on Marvels Iron Man and his AI Assistant). These have been from high profile people like…

  • Voice Assistants and The Letterbox Problem

    There are lots of voice activated tools and services now available from software on your PC and in your car to physical hardware you can place around your home. These devices are becoming everyday occurrences, “Alexa, whats the weather”, “Siri, recipe for  Chocolate Cake” (too many to list). The two main ways to control them…

  • Taking your coding to the next level – Scratch to Python

    Following on from my last blog post “How you can begin to Code“, by now you should have been getting to grips with a good level of basic coding using games to help you learn to code. So where do you go from here? Most of the initial links I listed used a scratch type of game…

  • STEM Choosing your Subjects

    Its easy for the older generations to look at the subjects available at Schools that relate to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and understand the value that they hold in the workplace today, however looking through the lens of young person choosing their option subjects its not so easy. How do I know? Well,…

  • Building a Quadruped

    I decided to have a go at building a robot for a STEM session last weekend, to show the power of code and how it can be used to control something.  A moving robot is a great visualisation to demonstrate this. After some searching I settled on a quadruped shown on thingverse (a 3d printing site).…

  • How you can begin to Code

    With all the recent STEM activities I have been involved with and blogged about, I have been asked to write some posts around how someone can start learning to code. The school curriculum covers an element of coding with some subjects and pupils may be lucky to get a BBC Micro:bit or Raspberry Pi, however…