[Bradford] Raspberry Pi Hackday

[Brian]

My very first experience, before I was a student, was to use a PDP 11 and write a simple program, it was saved on punched tape. It computed some numbers and then, to my great fascination, because it  included a loop featuring  chr(7), or something like that, the bell on the terminal would ring.
However, I am not one to dwell on past technology. It may be interesting to observe what happened in times gone-by but I'd much sooner spend time creating something new.
Brian



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 From: Tomas Holderness <tomasholderness at gmail.com>
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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)?
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>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, 
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>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).
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>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?
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>Cheers,
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>Tom
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>On 21 November 2012 21:14, Alice Kaerast <alice at kaerast.info> wrote:
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>On 21 November 2012 20:56, Robert Burrell Donkin
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>><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.
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>>> Are we going for it...?
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>I'm certainly up for it if others are.
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>>Regards
>>Alice
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