PiWars Fish Tank


Fish Tank

When we talk about the fish tank for PiWars Feed The Fish challenge first phrase that come to me is 'Cheap Chinese Holographic Displays' as if we are living in the near future where those do exist. But unfortunately I am not aware that they are made, yet.

Original idea was to go there and find a way to 'put' some fish in a fish tank. I am sure that many other teams had similar ideas. Question was only how to make it look like real fish tank!

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Eclipse Is Back on Raspberry Pi


Eclipse is Back On Raspberry Pi

Since the Raspberry Pi foundation released a new Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM and since they started started working on 64bit Raspbian Raspberry Pi OS, all the requirements needed for Eclipse to work on Raspberry Pi again are met.

TL;DR - you can get a working version of Eclipse For Java Developers (2020-03) from here: eclipse-java-2020-03-v1-R-linux-gtk-aarch64.tar.gz

It only works on 64bit Raspberry Pi OS - follow the above forum link on how to get it and install it.

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Nikola Title Background


Nikola Title Background

GCC - Game Creation Club's For 2019 PiWars entry I decided to move our web site from WordPress to nikola - site similar to this one.

Importing from WordPress was covered on many places including nikola's own site, but final import didn't look really like original theme it was taken from: background pictures under titles were missing. They were carefully selected to go with the content and without them site looked a bit, sad.

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New Blog Site


New Blog Site

Our new blog.abstracthorion.org blog site is up and running!

So, what is going to be the best theme for the first blog if not to describe how this blog web site is set up!

Nikola, Git on Linux with Apache

This is the best way to set up your blog! Or just one way to do that of many other similar better or not. It all depends of your point of view. Or maybe not really proper or correct way at all. Either way, it seemed quite interesting to me and I had to give it a go.

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