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Installing a WCH CH352 PCI serial card on a Linux PC

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I’ve got an old Dell XPS 420 desktop PC that is still in regular use. It runs Ubuntu well enough, and is perfect for retro software development. It does however have one drawback – a lack of legacy ports. I often use RS232 cables to transfer data to and from older machines, and in the absence of any on-board serial ports I’d resorted to using a cheap USB to Serial adaptor based on the CH340 …

Programming Games in Python

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One of the things I do on a regular basis is mentor at our local CoderDojo. For the last couple of years I’ve been teaching kids how to program games in Scratch. Between you and me, Scratch can be made to do some wonderful things, and it’s a great platform for learning games development on, but if you do anything more complicated than move a player sprite around the screen, then it can get quickly …