[Bradford] Raspberry Pi Hackday

[Tomas Holderness]

Or, just to throw in another suggestion - anyone in the group who used to
use punched tape? My dad and I were chatting last week about how to make a
sensor for the RPi to read punch tape, and it generated some interest on
twitter: https://twitter.com/iHolderness/status/268092434209193985

Cheers,
Tom



On 22 November 2012 13:35, Tomas Holderness <tomasholderness at gmail.com>wrote:

> The event made slashdot this morning (
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/11/22/0342241/entries-open-for-first-ever-24-hour-raspberry-pi-hackathon)
> - cool, but slightly daunting! I'm still up for it, but think we need to go
> in with an agreed idea. Will there be opportunity to discuss on Wednesday
> (or after meeting)?
>
> The Open Web Apps idea sounds interesting and I'd be interested in hearing
> more, though I've only just started experimenting with web stuff
> (Javascript). Generally, some mix of Python, C and SQL is where I'm
> happiest when coding,
>
> The ideas I had for the hack event revolve around using the RPi as a low
> cost sensor platform to collect data (e.g. temperature), store it locally
> in a database and then serve it to the web. I thought of this as
> sensors/motes and the like are a big thing in the engineering world right
> now (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_node).
>
> Specifically for the hack event, I had thought about connecting an air
> temperature sensor to the Pi, writing the software to read and store this
> is SQLite/CouchDB, and then writing a web front-end either using a simple
> python server or lighttpd/similar to serve this from the Pi. The web page
> with the data could contain a map showing the sensor location and a tasty
> visualisation of time-series air temperature (probably using something from
> here: http://selection.datavisualization.ch/). Optionally, I had mulled
> over adding batteries/solar panels to power the Pi, although power
> consumption of wi-fi dongle would probably mean LAN cable only. This
> wouldn't be a true sensor network set-up, but could be a nice use of the Pi
> in the time available. What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> On 21 November 2012 21:14, Alice Kaerast <alice at kaerast.info> wrote:
>
>> On 21 November 2012 20:56, Robert Burrell Donkin
>> <robertburrelldonkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Tomas Holderness
>> > <tomasholderness at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I'm a Linux geek recently returned to Bradford from working up north
>> (Dave's
>> >> a family friend) and I was hoping to pop along to the next meeting.
>> However,
>> >> I'd also seen the pi bake-off hack event and would be well up for
>> going as
>> >> part of team if you're interested. I've got a pi already, and a couple
>> of
>> >> ideas of things we could build.
>> >
>> > Are we going for it...?
>>
>> I think that probably depends on the ideas and the fit of skills.
>> Most recently my language of choice is bash and my skills are in
>> devops, though I can also do Ruby, Javascript, PHP and a little Python
>> and Io.
>>
>> I've been considering building a minimal OS capable of running Open
>> Web Apps for the Pi as one great project to look at.  Not sure we'd
>> get very far in a  day though.
>>
>> I'm certainly up for it if others are.
>>
>> Regards
>> Alice
>>
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