Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

Ooh, it gets even better. So a class wants a laptop, but according to my administration they already have one. Turns out it was collecting dust on one of their shelves, they never bothered to check..

Of course, after more than 3 months of no contact with the network, those devices automatically get kicked out from the network. Now I can send this laptop off to the IT to please add this to the network again. :P
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Keeping track of which laptop should be in which classroom is proving to be exceedingly difficult here. Even if it's labeled under the laptop in which class this laptop should be in, it'll still be in a completely wrong classroom!

Or! Get ready for this.. we get the laptop back on our desk with the post-it note on it: We found this in our classroom, oops!
But... the label is telling me that it SHOULD be in that classroom! Why do we get it back?!
And then they still want a laptop.

Help me to make sense out of this please! 😂
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Damn, getting out of my comfort zone here as an introvert.

We had to bring a bunch of equipment to another building and I saw in a room there a huge professional green screen setup. I was kinda in awe. The green screen setup we have in this classroom is amateur at best, so...

Coworkers told me who managed that studio. So I sent him an email with that I'd like to take a closer look at the studio sometime, and if I could maybe see someday how everything works over there?

Definitely out of my comfort zone here.
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I really dislike big network printers which think they're smart and ignore your specific request to print from a certain drawer or even from the manual input. 😒

I had to go to the receptionist, told her I'm oh so desperate and that the printer hates me, and she helped me out with the printer in her office.
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Just designed something quickly at job as a cover label for a box containing bandaids and thermal/isolation blankets. I made it more visual than necessary. 😋
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... Oh lol. A coworker had trouble connecting her work laptop to job via VPN at home. So my boss went to troubleshoot with her.

Turns out that she didn't connect the laptop to the internet at all at her home. "Did I have to connect my laptop to my WiFi?" ... well, yes, yes... how did she think the thing would have access to VPN?

She's actually quite a diginoob, this is not the first incident. Keeps the job interesting I suppose. 😂

She's a great teacher otherwise. Just make sure you've explained anything techy beforehand. In detail. ;)
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We're searching for the right sizes of stuff that can be pushed with the bulldozer cover on those robots. I think I've found the perfect one, a lightweight plastic bowl of 12 by 12 cm in diameter. (The grid is 15 by 15) We can do the perfect Sokoban scenario with this.

Coworker volunteered to paint the bowl. He loves to be creative with his hands. ;)
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I also decided to check out which of the Blue-Bots are calibrated by letting them rotate 4 times to form a circle. The new penholders are great for this.

Number 3 and 5 have the worst results (the circles aren't closed at all) so I've put them aside as they won't be great to test with. I'll have to examine them sometime.
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My coworker is very enthusiastic about the new accessoires we got for the Blue-Bot and we both had plenty of ideas. So our first step is to prepare a whiteboard with a grid so we can try to put our ideas at work.
Chances are we can create some lesson materials, we have the means to do so.
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Been testing out the new pen holders for the Blue-Bots. Don't mind the schematics of something else on the smaller piece of paper, that is for the Tovertafel (magic table) which we're also busy with setting up.

Anyway, yeah, you can see in the bigger piece of paper that the drawing went out of bounds. I had to scrub the floor clean. 😬 😅

We've got some nice plans for this one, kinda in the idea of tangram. We'll make a few pre-defined drawings, and then the kids can try and replicate it on their own with those robots.

Of course they can also make their own drawings. 😋
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Been replacing all the accus in those Blue-Bots. Need to charge them overnight to be 100% ready.
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Conclusion: It is 90% certain that the accus are worn out and thus the Bluebots aren't responding correctly anymore.

We'll order 6 new accus... and while we're ordering anyway, also a shitton of other accessoires to augment the Bluebot experience. The principal gave us the go-ahead. :D

Just a shame that all educative things are so expensive. But oh well, the school's got a budget for this kind of stuff I guess.
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Busy trying to troubleshoot those Bluebots we have. Finally got the right screwdrivers, and currently trying to swap accus around to see if that is the problem. If this is the case, we'll just order new accus.
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Another case of 'Huh, when we tested it last week it didn't work, but now that you're testing it, it works fine!'. 😋
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Trying to figure out what we need to open up this Blue-Bot and probably need to replace the accu there. We have to buy a very specific screwdriver. Handyman just ordered it, so it's waiting for that now. I suspect we need to replace accus on all 6. Still cheaper than ordering brand new Blue-Bots. Educative hardware is always overpriced.

There are so many more things that need maintenance besides this, like our narrowcasting system. We gotta move on from DVI to HDMI already. Replacing TVs is at the moment iffy as I don't know of many modern TVs with DVI.

Our Tovertafel will soon (in a few weeks) have an internet connection as well, so that we can _finally_ use that stuff after all this time. The principal asked us if we could make a little party out of this when we finally have everything set up and running. Yay. 😋

Plenty of stuff to do, but everything takes a long time before it gets done. It's just very annoying.
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*Chuckles* That was adorable.

Teacher with a little girl, who's obviously a bday girl if her festive hat was anything to go by, is going around the classrooms and offices to hand out treats.

She handed me the whole box, and I signed: "Can I have all of that?" She nodded yes. I was wide-eyed, "Allllll of that?!" The teacher signed to her, "Nono, they can't have all of that, it's just one they get out of the box!" Oh yeah!

So the girl signed "One thing" "Oh, phew, okay, thank you, I was already afraid I would have to become fat!" And then I grabbed just one treat out of the box and gave the box back to her, hehe.

The teacher thanked me and I'm just amused by this interaction. 😋
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Lol.

The handyman managed to get this drill bit stuck. 😂

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During break I told the teacher what happened earlier. And she already knows. During teaching she was wondering why her laptop kept making a 'ping' sound, and she recalled that she gave the mouse to us and concluded that must be the reason.

See, every time I turned on the mouse in order to try to connect it to the new receiver, it reconnected with her laptop instead which made that sound. 😂
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We got a spare wireless mouse from the classroom next to this office. I had to pair it to another Unifying receiver to create a new set. But whatever I tried, it refused to connect. Everything else I had would pair up fine, but this one mouse just wouldn't.

I went to fetch the original receiver from the classroom to see if it was still paired with the mouse. It was, so I unpaired it and now the mouse could connect to the new receiver fine. Everything finally worked like a charm and I returned the original receiver.

And, um... since the classroom's workspace was right behind the wall behind me... I realized I might've inadvertently done shenanigans with the teacher's laptop. She didn't notice it because she was busy teaching, but I hope I didn't accidentally remove any emails! 😬

In hindsight it was pretty hilarious. 😋
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Have helped set up a 'Tovertafel' at job (a beamer with sensors to interact with the stuff, projected onto a table or floor). Next week I'll help calibrate it further and try to get it connected to the school's WiFi.

Thing's kinda cute. The default games are a bit meh, but I think they'll be great for kindergarten. Once we actually get connected we might have access to a boatload more fun games which'll be great for the whole school.
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