Sep 5 2015
A Classroom set of Raspberry Pi’s – part 1
I attended #Picademy North at Easter (2015). I committed then to a post about a Raspberry Pi project which would be a viable method of using Raspberry Pi’s in the classroom – initially for a coding club and subsequently for KS3 lessons. Six months later I have sources spreadsheet for all the components; completed my testing, and linked my updated KS3 scheme of learning. Here are my Raspberry Pi setup notes too and Physical Computing Notes.
My aim is two stage –
- Support my Digital Leaders with using Raspberry Pi’s with the Coding Club on Thursday lunchtimes
- Integrate the use of a half class set (x16) of Raspberry Pi’s for KS3 class use. I have worked out that this will be for 2 teaching units, one in Year 8 – using the Pibrella to model traffic lights using Scratch GPIO tied in with Flowol; and a Year 9 Control Project unit using Python, the RaspIO Protection board and the ModMyPi Raspberry Pi YouTube Workshop Kit (see bid).
Oct 10 2015
A Classroom set of Raspberry Pi’s – part 2
Having explained how I have bench tested and decided on a final Raspberry Pi configuration – in A Classroom set of Raspberry Pi’s – part 1, I took delivery of 18 sets and started putting them together with the help of my Digital Leaders. Here is the description of both the equipment and the setting up.
The standard set-up is this:
Cable tied and velcroed to the wall with toggled switching using the KVM (velcroed to PC box):
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By Chris Sharples • Digital Leaders, Physical Computing, RaspberryPi •