{"id":843,"date":"2014-05-19T14:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T22:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/?p=843"},"modified":"2014-09-12T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T08:01:50","slug":"raspberry-pi-construction-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/2014\/05\/19\/raspberry-pi-construction-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Construction (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/2014\/04\/26\/raspberry-pi-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\">we showed you<\/a> how we set up our Raspberry Pi and managed to print something on our thermal printer! This post will show you the rest of the process for building our Readers&#8217; Advisory machine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/M4sSNSX.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/M4sSNSX.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere we are watching the Eurovision semifinals on the projection screen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OHNejWT.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OHNejWT.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere are all the snacks we had (this is important).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/y1qQzxn.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/y1qQzxn.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere are our wires! And the button we had (that didn&#8217;t work, more on this later).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/eIg3W45.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/eIg3W45.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMonica working on the code.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ScS65t7.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ScS65t7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWires plugged into our breadboard. The red button was missing a key component so we couldn&#8217;t actually wire it in. Oops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/rwg60Ns.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/rwg60Ns.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWires and cables everywhere!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Q7x90YX.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Q7x90YX.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMonica and Stephanie finishing off the code for the printer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/faO5Els.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/faO5Els.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd it works!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kO86_P74EkA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a video if it in action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/vB3tSae.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/vB3tSae.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe wrote up a bunch of reviews which are randomly pulled from a CSV file.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OkYSCLu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OkYSCLu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OkYSCLu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">look carefully<\/a> you&#8217;ll see the spacing and other issues we dealt with for the printer.<\/p>\n<p>And that was all we could accomplish on that day! We&#8217;d have to come back on Saturday to finish everything off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/79medjY.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/79medjY.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThankfully the Eurovision finals were on, so we could still watch those.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ttk24B8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Ttk24B8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhoops. Turns out we also bought the wrong resistor thing, but thanks to our extra long bread board we were able to wire stuff together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7qBYJo0.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7qBYJo0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAll the wires in action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/EK6zTau.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/EK6zTau.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOur shiny new button!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qIWO0nA.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qIWO0nA.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHooking everything together.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ug4HVrebqlA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s alive, alive!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/AL4Dxe0.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/AL4Dxe0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJust a few hours later was the <a href=\"http:\/\/makerfaire.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maker Faire<\/a> social. So we hauled our gear downtown to the Mozilla office and set everything up for people to see what we&#8217;d been doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Rh9niCx.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Rh9niCx.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HgEvagP.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HgEvagP.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOf course (of course!) it didn&#8217;t work. Why didn&#8217;t it work? We don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wrcTPt9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wrcTPt9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe double checked how all the cables were hooked up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/13uGcJ8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/13uGcJ8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd it worked! Right now we still need to hook it up to a monitor to get everything running, but we&#8217;ll soon have that fixed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WRj7Xrp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WRj7Xrp.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the sign we made to explain what the machine was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LxjrRKU.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LxjrRKU.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKrista, Monica, and Stephanie Basking in the delight of having a working machine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hutJuGm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hutJuGm.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSome of the other people at the social. We met a person from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubc-rapid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">UBC Rapid<\/a> who will hopefully be making a case for us!<\/p>\n<p>Next up is the show and tell in the SLAIS lounge at 5pm on Wednesday the 21st, and then the <a href=\"http:\/\/makerfaire.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maker Faire <\/a>on June 7th and 8th! (And if you can&#8217;t make either of those, the machine will be around at other events too.)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1gpr1oeKRXkm5tXm56gP_y2PrfP7h-1tuX6hlcMuYGp8\/edit#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">write us some reviews<\/a> for the machine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Last time we showed you how we set up our Raspberry Pi and managed to print something on our thermal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576,2168],"tags":[635917],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-meetings","tag-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}