{"id":818,"date":"2014-04-26T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/?p=818"},"modified":"2014-09-12T00:02:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T08:02:49","slug":"raspberry-pi-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/2014\/04\/26\/raspberry-pi-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Construction!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we bought a Raspberry Pi recently in order to make a rad RA fortune telling machine for the <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.makerfaire.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Mini Maker Faire<\/a>. This week a bunch of us got together in order to get everything working and installed, and hook it up to the rest of the machine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Hq7ZYRV.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks like this! It&#8217;s pretty tiny.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qsikFh0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Installing stuff!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/FVQIvHO.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stripping wires for the printer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HW5Lops.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Screwing wires into another thing!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/r9aGB1m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stuff is happening! Wait, should this be happening?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/P3chzlV.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently not. We goofed up and had to reinstall the operating system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nQb0imo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This takes a long time. So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/oVb2TJQ.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We played Pirates of the Caribbean Life! It is really terrible and poorly made. But it was hilarious!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gXkG9wn.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Stephanie, Monica, and Eka (she took this photo) are actually doing work. Thankfully they fixed things.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/zFGvD9N.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We take the lid off the Pi (this took too long and too many people) and hooked up the printer. And things didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/SGOwmJO.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guess what! You have to plug in the HDMI cable for things to show up on screen. We forgot to do this multiple times. Grad school!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/s0ecSEa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh my gosh! It&#8217;s working!!!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/cInac08.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next time we&#8217;ll get our button to work, and get the software that will print the readers&#8217; advisory information to print. Hurray!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Eka, Stephanie, Monica, Anna, Krista\/Eva, Irina, Robert, and me (Matthew).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">So we bought a Raspberry Pi recently in order to make a rad RA fortune telling machine for the Vancouver&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576,155],"tags":[635917],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}