Bob Bilsland

It's been all Python at my Code Club's this week. From Astro Pi, Mission Zero to encapsulating Pygame Zero enemy Actors in their own objects!

So many lessons learned! 🦖

The encoding of Unicode characters in text files is sometimes a nightmare. Glad you've worked out a solution 👍🏻

We've done similar including using an indoor dog pen for a number of them when the weather was just too hot for the old girls outside and they were just pegging from overheating!

NOTE: For anyone wanting to have a go at my Wack-a-Mole game here it is on Scratch scratch.mit.edu/projects/957...
PS You will need to provide your own MakeyMakey board and Play-Doh for the full effect 😄

How many children and parents I spoke to I don't know but what I do know is that plenty of children left enthused, full of ideas with parents wanting to try our projects first before working on them with their children. #Success

From exploring my Play-Doh controlled Scratch / Makey Makey Wack-a-Mole game and using a micro:bit with a Kitronik ring of LEDs to visualise volume levels in the room to being shown how music can be created through code using Sonic Pi.

Saturday was loads of fun attending #STEAM Fest at the Hive in Worcester. I spent the day wearing my @codeclub.bsky.social hat (t-shirt), showing children how creative they can be with code.

So do you think someone at The BBC, ITV or Channel 5 might have thought, just for one second, some of their audience might not give a fly monkeys about Trump and his inauguration!

Oh not too bad, still doing my own thing. Yourself?

Hello @simonpenfold.bsky.social 👋🏻

Yesterday was my first after school @codeclub.bsky.social session since the Christmas break and it was time to mix things up a bit. This term we're starting with a bit of Astro Pi Mission Zero!

Still near enough to Christmas! #TotallyJustified

Should creating a Nintendo Mii looking like this be considered wrong?

I know it's not until someone points this out that you finally twig there's been a picture on the front of the bottle all the time too!

Congratulations to you both 🎉

More appropriately sized furniture needed!

Too festive for tonight's @codeclub.bsky.social Coffee & Conversation meet-up?

You missed a fantastic weekend but as you say we're connected here and I'm sure there will be a next time 👍

Two words Clubs Con 24 (ok that's 3 but in my defence the last is a number!)

To everyone who put in time and effort to put together a presentation thank you, the ones I saw were interesting and informative. All that's left to say is here's to #ClubsCon25 🧵 7/7

A massive thank you to everyone who was involved in making this weekend such a success, they don't just happen by themselves. I've never been to the @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social offices before and they are wonderful and the food delicious. 🧵 6/7

Whether you share your 3 items or keep them to yourself is up to you but make them all the same. At the end of the day don't measure yourself on the progress you've made just read the list and remember the enthusiasm you wrote them down with in the first place. 🧵 5/7

So let's make an effort to write them down so you can look back later and say to yourself "how am I doing with these ideas". Maybe 3 items, 1 really easy, 1 a bit more difficult and a final one that seems impossible, why can't we think big and dream. 🧵 4/7

Now is the time to think about those take aways and more importantly write them down as things to do. We always set out with good intentions but life is what it is, things get in the way and heads full of great ideas and enthusiasm soon get replaced with what I need to buy from Tesco's. 🧵 3/7

As always it was great to catch up with people face to face, whether good friends or new acquaintances. Sharing views and opinions and more importantly listening to theirs makes the weekend a fantastic mixing pot of brainstorming and improvements. 🧵 2/7

So now I've had a sleep, and I needed it, it's good to reflect back on the amazing @codeclub.bsky.social #ClubsCon24 weekend. So much chat about so many ideas and opinions. Who I spoke to I can't remember for sure but what I can say is my head has come back full of ideas and enthusiasm.🧵 1/7

AI thought it could have looked like this, loving the facial expression 🤣

I never doubted your authenticity!

Maybe being on your feet for the majority of a weekend wasn't the wisest idea, hope the peas help soon.