for those in the SF Bay Area Noisebridge (a hacker-space in San Francisco) is hosting Raspberry Pi this Sat. I've pasted the info below from Mich Altman (founder of Noisebridge).
Best, Marnia
Come to Noisebridge on Saturday, 29-September, and play with Raspberry Pi!
When:
Workshop / Tech Demos: 11am
Talk: 3pm
Show & Tell / Prizes: 4pm
Where:
Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St., 3rd floor (1.5 blocks from 16th St. Mission BART Station)
Cost:
FREE
Rob Bishop from the RaspberryPi Foundation is touring popular hackspaces in the US throughout September 2012 with the aim of giving talks and workshops about the RaspberryPi to both hackspace members and also RaspberryPi users in the local commun! ity.
He'll be coming to visit Noisebridge on Saturday, 29-September-2012 at 11am - 5pm. The event is free, and open to all!
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charitable organisation founded with the aim of promoting the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level. The Foundation is responsible for the design and sales of the popular RaspberryPi single-board computer. You can find out more about the Foundation and the RaspberryPi at the Raspberry Pi website.
The tour will be blogged/vlogged on the RaspberryPi website and we hope to attract RaspberryPi enthusiasts and hackers/makers from across the areas we will be visiting, allowing us to meet and support our community.
The Noisebridge event will be very informal and will consist of the following;
Workshop / Tech Demos (11am -3pm)
Rob will be giving a demonstration of th! e latest developments with the Pi as well as bringing a number of Pi's for people to play with hands-on.
This will give people a great opportunity to get advice from the Foundation and get help kickstarting Pi-based projects.
There will be a limited number of Raspberry Pi's for sale at Noisebridge. But to ensure you're not disappointed by lack of availability, you can buy a Raspberry Pi in advance -- Rob says that there is now plenty of stock at MCM Electronics (http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi).
Talk (3pm)
RaspberryPi: Past, Present & Future - An introduction to the RaspberryPi, including an overview of its history and development, details on the technical specification and an outline of future developments. Fo! llowed by a Q&A session.
Show & Tell / Prizes (4pm)
A chance for people who have started/completed projects based on the Pi to bring them along to do a show and tell, with prizes being given out for the most awesome ones shown.
Noisebridge wiki page: https://noisebridge.net/wiki/RaspberryPiEvent
Mitch.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Tristan Eversole <customerservice@trioptimum.com> wrote:
That would be great! However, it would probably be best for me to get my mitts on a Pi and some sensors first, and that will take some time and money. So don't write a tutorial on my account, at least not yet; however, there might be other people on this list, or other amateur scientists in general, who could really benefit from one.
On Sep 26, 2012, at 3:05 PM, Tim McNamara wrote:
> On 27 September 2012 08:23, Tristan Eversole
> <customerservice@trioptimum.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 25, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Simon Quellen Field wrote:
>>
>>> Because the Pi is basically a laptop computer without the screen and keyboard,
>>> what you know about the computers you use for home, school, and work will
>>> apply to it. The Arduino is nothing like what you are used to, and will take
>>> longer to learn, even though it is very simple.
>>
>>
>>> The advantage of a multitasking web connected controller is that you can monitor
>>> it from anywhere on your phone or laptop, and it can send you alerts if something
>>> goes wrong with pumps, temperature, power failure (use a UPS for your router),
>>> oxygen, pH, or anything you'd like to monitor.
>>>
>>> It can keep a record of all the sensors on the hard drive, so when you kill your
>>> first batch, you can find out what went wrong and fix it before trying again.
>>>
>>> You can watch graphs of all the things you are measuring, and adjust things in
>>> response over the web, without having to be home watching it all the time.
>>
>> You make a compelling argument for the Raspberry Pi. I hadn't spent much time looking at the Pi before, but it's clearly warranted now.
>>
>> Nonetheless, I think you really hit the main issue on the head in that first paragraph above. The Pi is basically a laptop computer without the screen and keyboard, but that doesn't help me much:
>>
>> 1) I have no familiarity with Linux, Python, PHP, Apache, bash, etc. I currently have no idea how to set up THIS computer as a web server, or have it display continuously-monitored data as a graph. (Can I use R?) Maybe this is much, much easier than I think it is, or maybe I can get someone to help me, but I wouldn't count on it. I'm hardly averse to learning this stuff, either, but I have a very hard time not exploding into twenty different topics as it is, and I need to watch that.
>
> If you're interested, I am happy to gather some content together for a
> tutorial. I'll put it up on data.geek.nz. It can be intensive to write
> these kinds of tutorials well though, and would only bother if you're
> genuinely interested. If you just want graphs from a data stream, I
> recommend Cosm (https://cosm.com/about_us). That way you don't need to
> know about the web server component, just how to send data to Cosm.
> Perhaps part 2 could be a completely self-service model.
--T.
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