W. H. Bellhttp://www.whbell.net/

http://www.fnc.co.uk

Raspberry Pi

Introduction & motivation

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The standard model

A theory of matter and its interactions

Difficult to apply without a computer program

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The standard model

Computer programming used for scientific calculations

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Data acquisition and ATLAS

The ATLAS detector

The trigger systemThere are many

connections and lots of data.

Readout using bespoke hardware and software.

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The problem

● Difficult to teach programming at University– Students panic, due to lack of experience

● Programming needed for general solutions– Stuck when one cannot buy the software

needed– Students that cannot program miss

opportunities

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EducationWord processing Web surfing

Spreadsheet?HTML?

Some Scratchprogramming

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At homeInteresting devices, but locked down.

Cannot compile source code or use for project.

Home PCs used for photo collection, not for experimentation.Not enough money to buy many standard PCs for many projects.

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ProgrammingUsed in many applications

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Gaining IT competency

● Need to experiment in a safe environment– Need easy I/O connections to connect to other

devices.

● Different projects on different computers– Deploy computers in remote locations, with battery

power or solar cells.

● Experiment with technologies– Web servers, file servers, parallel computing,

networking, cryptography

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Project ideas

Robotics

Submarine Oscilloscope

Web server

WiFi access point

Home automationFile server

Weather station

Spacecraft

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GPIO Header & OS

Raspbian

RiscOS Windows 10 IoT

Ubuntu Snappy

Ubuntu Mate

OSMC

OpenELEC

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Summary

● Need to improve IT competency– Programming, interfacing, other skill sets

● Often difficult to experiment with computers at school or at home– Can improve at school and at home

● The Raspberry Pi provides a flexible solution– Allowing experimentation

– Open OS & standard programming tools