The week we’ve been making microbit robots, we review the Entroware Apollo and announce a competition where you can win it. Protect your bits with another virtual private lurve and we go over all your feedback.

It’s Season Ten Episode Twenty-Two of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Mark has been playing with Robot microbit buggies

* We review the Entroware Apollo and announce a competition where you can win it!

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We share a Virtual Private Lurve:

* OperaVPN – Unlimited Wifi Security and Content Unblocking

* And we go over all your amazing feedback – thanks for sending it – please keep sending it!

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This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

Entroware Apollo Laptop Competition

Rules

We want you create something.

* Create something interesting in 20 lines of code. Share it via your favourite code hosting site.

* Write some prose, a poem, a short story or other written work in the length of 20 tweets. Post it on your blog or bold.io if you don’t have a blog.

* Compose some music or create an audio project that is 20 seconds long and post it to your favourite audio sharing site.

* Draw a picture or take a photograph using only 20 colours, lines or shapes and share it via an image sharing site.

* Produce a 20 second video and share it via YouTube, Vimeo or Twitch.

This is how you enter:

* Email your entry to [email protected].

* We’d like to share your creations on the show and via our social feeds, so please license them freely.

* Deadline for entries is September 3rd 2017.

* We will announce the winner on our 300th episode which will go out on September 7th 2017.

* We will ship the laptop to the countries that Entroware ship to, which is the UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France and Germany.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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