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More on Raspberry Pi

I have blogged before about Raspberry Pi - but one of our science teachers, Mr. Goering, is having some of his AP Physics students working on it now.  They have programmed it to take the temperature and record it multiple times throughout the day.  They have also figured out how to get it to print, email and many other commands by scripting it.  Here is what is going on "visually," which might not seem like a lot from the photos but OH THEY ARE LEARNING:)!!

Mr. Goering had to order a little weather pin - so track that - he also ordered the white breadboard as that makes connections SO much easier than trying to use the pins on the actual Raspberry Pi. 
 The simply connected the Raspberry Pi to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and then started scripting and figuring out different "Python" language to run it:)!! 
 Finally, this shows some of the coding they had to do to force and talk to the Raspberry Pi to get it to perform the desired outcomes.  In this case, they scripted it to check the temperature every so often, so when they go to this page and click run - it will push out the data for them - SUPER NEAT:)!!
The next step that he would like to do is use the Thing Speak website to create graphs from the data - that is the next phase for him and his students.  SUCCESS INDEED:)!!

Here are some OTHER ways to use the Raspberry Pi:



It also got us talking about next year and how he would still like to set up a weather station and use a green screen to do weather forecasting - exciting things going on here peeps!

Happy weekend all -
Mrs. I:)


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