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Fire up the Do-bulator
A project for Data Communications by Jason Mendoza for fall 2013 semester.
This project was begun on 9/5/2013 and is anticipated to take a few days.
Objectives
Seeing as how the Raspberry Pi systems will be integral to our coursework this term I believe it would make sense to have a personal unit to work on at home. Due to the size and mobility of the Raspberry Pi I plan on making a full, efficient desktop unit to be as portable and modular as possible. The outcome should be a small, intuitive and functional system to use interchangeably throughout the house and at school.
Prerequisites
The following toys/brainings shall be required/acquired:
- Raspberry Pi model B
- Small TFT display
- Itty-bitty keyboard/mouse
- Micro USB AC adapter
- Tiny wireless USB network adapter
- I/O pin accessible case
- 12v AC adapter
- electrical tape
- SD card
- Non resource hungry OS distribution
- solder?
- soldering and wire splicing skills
- basic makeifying reasoning
Background
Raspberry Pi represents technology, that while not new, is meant for a broad base of peoples and applications that could be categorized as niches within niches. Pi brings that up a level to just regular niche.
Since these are still fairly new to the market there are not many bespoke peripherals that exist for the system; most accessories are re purposed from other market segments.
The knowledge I hope to gain includes getting components made for separate industries and purposes to work together as a viable home and prototyping system. Inspiration will be coming from the following external links. Really all my life I've been shopping around for different peripherals that exist and with the new Pi system I feel like I have the capability to play with catastrophic failure on a large scale.
Scope
I really want to make a small modular system to eventually use as a media server or something of that sort. My biggest fear right now happens rhyme with “pfeletrical shfire”.
The outcome looks promising.
Attributes
State and justify the attributes you'd like to receive upon successful approval and completion of this project.
- attribute1: why you feel your pursuit of this project will gain you this attribute
- attribute2: why you feel your pursuit of this project will gain you this attribute
- etc…
Procedure
*Take inventory * find 12v ac adapter *splice wires to monitor * plug everything in *treat electrical burns *format sd card *find resolution *configure raspian to Gui interface *capital gains
Execution
BEHOLD!!! PHOTO ESSAY!
Reflection
| This thing is glorious!!!!! |
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Everything turned out so sweet next week Kim-Jong Un will say he invented that &^*%(^!!!!
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References
In performing this project, the following resources were referenced:
