Raspberry Pi Hacking - Ryan Pavlovsky

Attending

• Ryan Pavlovsky
• Katy Huff
• Ryan Bergmann
• Josh Howland
• Prof. Rachel Slaybaugh
• Kelly Rowland
• Ross Barnowski
• Tomi Akindele

Lesson: Raspberry Pi

Ryan Pavlovsky, a student in Kai Vetter’s research group, gave an excellent presentation about what he’s done with the raspberry pi.

Stuff that we discussed :

• How did you get this?

• What are the peripherals that work with it?

  • gpu/cpu
  • broadcomm video card
  • ARM processor, 700 MHz
  • 512 MB memory
  • JTag header?
  • USB/Ethernet
  • SD card additional memory
  • Raspbian operating system

• What example projects are cool?

  • smart kegerator (monitors flow rates, temperatures, accounting, facial detection)
  • Quake III
  • cluster of pis. built mpi on it. rack made of legos!

• Demos!

  • pong, a ping sensor. Sends a ping, measures time to return.
  • ping, a program that acquires pong senses over time.
  • simon says, computer tells you what to do, based on ping

  • GEANT4

    • 4.10 C++ implementation
    • networked raspberry pi
    • edited ~/.bashrc for data

Code examples for the demo can be found here.

Lightning Talks

We talked, in an ad hoc fashion about the hearbleed OpenSSL bug.