Computer Club 2013-April-12

Today we started got introduced to the Linux Operating system and how to log on to the Raspberry Pi's. After a short overview we finished up the frames for the Pi computers.

Album for 2013-April-12

Computer Club 2013- April-05

The groups continued to work on  the frames for the Raspberry Pi computers. Although the legos are simple and fun to play with we had trouble making the strong frames for the Pi computers because we had to be so careful and gentle.

Album for Computer Club 2013 April 05

2013 March 22

We started building our racks to hold the Raspberry Pi boards using Legos! After dividing into teams we planned out and built frames for our Raspberries on large lego boards. Click below for the pictures!

  Picasa Web Album for 2013 March 22 Computer Club

Raspberry Pi Model B Schematic

Your First Bite of Raspberry Pi

Here is an interesting article about the new Raspberry Pi model B we will be working with for the supercomputer project. Its called Your First Bite of Raspberry Pi written by Shawn Powers from the linuxjournal.com.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/your-first-bite-raspberry-pi?page=0,0

The article has several great ideas for Pi cases...

1) Legos

2) Soft case made of mylar plastic


3) make one out of stuff lying around the house like cardboard boxes


4) and last but not least you can always buy one from online

A Supercomputer made of Pies?

No not pies! I mean Raspberry Pis, without the "e". Simon Cox and a team of engineers at Britain’s University of Southampton built their supercomputer, and they’ve the published instrctions so that now we are going to build one too!

For more information about Raspberry Pis click here:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

 

For more informatino about the supercomputer click here

 

For more information about the instructions click here