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Emulating a Raspberry Pi on Virtualbox
So I’m working on a lot of posts for Enterprise Manager, but I can’t post them just yet, so here’s some more Raspberry Pi love to keep you busy until then… Why VBox Raspberry Pi? Many times I just want...
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The Evolution of a Programmer and the Pythonic Way of Thinking
There’s an old joke about the evolution of a programmer. It starts with the programmer in their infancy and typing: Print “Hello World” and so the output returns: The programmer continues to evolve....
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Python Pass the Pigs
So I don’t doubt that many parents are bleeding out money for kid’s school fees, supplies, clothing and other demands this time of year. How many of you are in their local Target, Walmart or other...
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Enhancing A Moving Art Project to Beginning Robotics with Raspberry Pi
Back on August 7th, the RMOUG’s Quarterly Education Workshop, I walked everyone through using a Pibrella board to create an art or flyer project that was powered with a python script and a motor....
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Updating the Raspberry Pi Vbox Image
So one of the things I like to do is test out a lot of my python gaming code, (as far as for the coding and syntax) on my Oracle Virtualbox image of my Raspberry Pi. Another great thing about building...
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Adding Music to Code On Your Raspberry Pi
So as I prepare for next week, coaching with some other great folks with the Oracle Education Foundation using the Raspberry Pi, I wanted to add some fun music into my code to work with our motor...
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Indianapolis, ECO, IOUG and Oracle Education Foundation, Ohm My!
I’ve been a bit busy traveling and speaking, but I wanted to discuss the great events I’ve been lucky enough to be part of the last couple weeks. Indianapolis Oracle User Group I spoke at the INOUG...
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New Python Pass the Pigs Game
So in honor of coaching a Python introduction class with Devoxx4Kids this weekend, I thought I would update my pass the pigs game and add in the scoring and just rewrite it a little. If you aren’t...
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Be the Change You Want to See
There is an incredible power with the simple act of doing. People have a tendency to complain about the world, but there are only a few that refuse to simply accept it as it is and reach out to change...
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Barnes and Noble Maker’s Faire- Raspberry Pi Power, Activate!
This Saturday I’ll be part of a nationwide event being put on by the Raspberry Pi Organization and Barnes and Noble book stores. Makers Faire’s have been gaining international attention as the place...
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Raspberry Pi Version 2 Wifi Inconsistent Connectivity
I’d had some difficulty with WiFi consistently staying connected on each of my Raspberry Pi units. I’d had a little time to look into it, but no research had offered an answer and the only fixes I’d...
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Adding GPIO Pins to the Raspberry Pi Zero
Although the Raspberry Pi 3 is now available, many people are still interested in it’s cheaper, smaller version, the Raspberry Pi Zero. This version isn’t just smaller, it also requires a Wi-Fi dongle...
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Adding a Database to the Raspberry Pi Zero
This morning, after someone added SQL Developer to a Raspberry Pi 3, Jeff Smith pinged me and the question was posed, as it often is, can you run Oracle database server on a Raspberry Pi, (RPI)? The...
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GPIOZero on Non-Zero Raspberry Pi
So there are some cool features that are built into the GPIOZero library/module. One of the challenges I think many of us that have a lot of projects that we want to work on, is that we end up having...
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Raspberry Pi- Common Configuration Issues
The following issues in this post are common challenges experienced by Raspberry Pi, (RPI) owners and I’m consistently frustrated with the ridiculous answers out on the internet for them! No fear,...
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Installing Pibrella on Raspberry Pi 3 and GPIO Pins
With me traveling to Redwood City next week to visit HQ and then Oracle Open World the week after, I’m busy during many of my off hours preparing a new Raspberry Pi STEAM setup for a maker’s faire the...
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ODTUG’s KSCOPE 2nd Annual Geekathon
After returning from KSCOPE two weeks ago, I was again approached to be a judge this year on the Geekathon 2017. I was thrilled when the option was left open to me to compete this year. instead of be a...
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Festive Tech Calendar 2023
It’s almost my turn to present my video this year on December 13th, for the 2023 Festive Tech Calendar. I chose to do something fun vs. something about the cloud or databases, etc. This blog post has...
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