[Bradford] Raspberry Pi Hackday

Thu Nov 22 17:14:52 UTC 2012

Yes I agree. I've seen from twitter that he was thinking of going to the Pi
event. Is anyone in contact with him, If not I can send him a message?

Cheers,

T

On 22 November 2012 16:34, Dick Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com> wrote:

> if you are doing anything with the raspberryPI we should invite Gareth
> Halfacree as he literally wrote the book[1] on the PI
>
>
> [1]
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gareth-Halfacree/e/B0088CA5ZM/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1353602033&sr=8-2-ent
>
> On 22 November 2012 14:30, Brian <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Tomas Holderness <tomasholderness at gmail.com>
> > To:
> > Cc: bradford <Bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2012, 14:18
> > Subject: Re: [Bradford] Raspberry Pi Hackday
> >
> > 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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