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Thursday, August 9, 2018

#Picademy Seattle - Day 1

Just imagine...
Mrs.Pac-Man 


Donkey Kong 



...all while Girls Just Want to have Fun is blaring in the background...


... is this real life?


 Can this be how I start every day?


Before my #Picademy even started, Chris Aviles started this epic Twitter thread!





Practical Pi!


Traditional setup: Pi, keyboard, mouse, monitor (hdmi, dvi, vga+adapter(not all created equal))
sceptre e205w-160 vga build-in speaker 
Networking (SSH): connect without a screen and accessed via the ssh protocol using the terminal, multiple machines can be connected, great as an intro to Linux, can be 1 pi per class or 1 per group/student
Networking (VNC): connected without a screen and accessed via the vnc protocol, graphical interface is provided over the network, great where space is limited; uses same keyboard and mouse
PiNet: A pc/laptop can run an LTSP server to manage a set of Raspberry Pis


PiZero: Portable projects, small and light weight (stick of gum size), doesn't have as much processing power, $10, can run the projects that we created in the Raspberry Pi, think wearable led name badge, needs a power source if you are going to make it portable, 

Funding Hardware: PTA and crowdfunding, donations from local corporations, souring the basement, donorschoose.org, techsoup (website that connects you to organizations that are giving away things)

SD Card: 8 GB (or bigger), class 10 (read and write speed of the card), SanDisk Ultra is a great card to get

Downloads: Noobs, Raspbian, use a copying machine when done for a lot, PiBaker(makes it easy duplicate sd cards) pibakery.org,  etcher is another tool for duplicating, Dropbox or GitHub are places to save information, Google Drive is a great place to save Thonny code (copy and paste), Minecraft Pi edition, Node-RED is programming language from IBM made for the Internet Of Things (IOT) on the Raspberry Pi, Visualizations with Cayenne, 


Quick links & resources


Worktime
We had a full day of projects and only a little bit of time for each project... one project that I have been dreaming about since my shoe rack was built is a rack that will spin by the push of a button. We had 15 minutes to prototype one and I think it can be done!


Picademy Buttons
I won a #picademy button for my #selfiegame !!


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