Strathclyde CIS Xmas Lecture Slides 2012 PDF

Raspberry
Pi and Arduino:

“Pioneers of the Open Hardware
& So;ware Fron=er”
Duncan Smeed
Computer and Informa2on Sciences
www.strath.ac.uk/cis
University of Strathclyde

Outline of the lecture
•  Christmas Past
–  Some background and context
•  Christmas Present
–  The current state of play
•  Christmas Future
–  Possibili2es for the future of Open Hardware and
Open SoFware
Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Raspberry Pi and Arduino: “Pioneers of the Open Hardware & So;ware Fron=er”
Christmas Past
Background and Context

My first computer…

…circa 1973!
hTp://www.designspark.com/blog/running-‐george-‐3-‐on-‐a-‐raspberry-‐pi

The Distant Past – 30 years ago!
•  Home computers your parents may have

used…
– BBC Micro
– Sinclair ZX 81
– Sinclair ZX Spectrum
– or, even, …

The Dragon 32…

…my first home computer…

… and my first book!

Inside the Dragon

Dragon #1 – the Pippin

The first Bri2sh laptop…

The Liberator…

…designed for the Civil Service
Quick think:
What sort of marke2ng campaign for a laptop
do you think would appeal to civil servants?

This!?

Dragon & Liberator R&D Team!

Christmas Present

Luxar Jr…
hTp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvCWPZfK8pI
…inspired this!
hTp://www.ben-‐dror.com/index.php/projects/lamp/
Introduc2on to Open-‐source SoFware,
Hardware and Design
A (very) brief overview

What is Open-‐source SoFware?
•  Open-‐source soFware (OSS) is computer soFware
that is available with source code:
–  the source code and certain other rights normally
reserved for copyright holders are provided under an
open-‐source license that permits users to study,
change, improve and at 2mes also to distribute the
soFware.
•  Open source soFware is very oFen developed in a
public, collabora2ve manner.
Source: Wikipedia <hTp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-‐source_soFware>

Open SoFware includes…

What is Open-‐source Hardware?
•  Open-‐source hardware consists of physical ar2facts of
technology designed and offered by the Open design
movement.
•  Both free and open-‐source soFware (FOSS) as well as open-‐
source hardware is created by this open-‐source culture
movement and applies a like concept to a variety of
components.
•  The term usually means that informa2on about the hardware is
easily discerned. Hardware design (i.e. mechanical drawings,
schema2cs, bill of materials, PCB layout data, HDL source code
and integrated circuit layout data), in addi2on to the soFware
that drives the hardware, are all released with the FOSS
approach.
Source: Wikipedia <hTp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-‐source_hardware>

Open Hardware

What is Open Design?
•  Open design is the development of physical products,
machines and systems through use of publicly shared
design informa2on.
•  The process is generally facilitated by the Internet
and oFen performed without monetary
compensa2on.
•  The goals and philosophy are iden2cal to that of the
open-‐source movement, but are implemented for the
development of physical products rather than
soFware.
Source: Wikipedia <hTp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-‐source_hardware>

RepRap
hTp://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
Open Designs…
Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012 Raspberry
Pi and Arduino: “Pioneers of the Open Hardware & SoFware Fron2er”
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Introduc2on to the Arduino
and Raspberry Pi
A (very) brief overview

Brief history of the Arduino:
IEEE Spectrum Feature

Raspberry Pi Founda2on?
•  Foundation
•  The Raspberry Pi Founda2on is a UK charity that exists to
promote the study of computer science and to put the
fun back into learning compu2ng
•  Justification
•  The jus2fica2on behind this was the fact that the uptake
of compu2ng in schools and universi2es has been in
steady decline.
•  Inspiration
•  RPi is designed to push kids beyond basic computer
literacy – and to expose them to ‘computa2onal thinking’.

Raspberry Pi
Source:hTp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi photograph by Jwrodgers

Dragon vs Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi -‐ <£30

Broadcom BCM2835 system
on a chip
Dragon 32 -‐ £199.50 in 1982 –  700MHz ARM1176: 32-‐
•  1 MHz M6809E: 8-‐bit bit processor [>3000x]
processor –  512MB RAM [16384x]
•  32KB RAM –  VideoCore IV GPU [?x]
•  M6847 Video Display •  Full HD 1080p (1920 x 1080,
Generator 24?-‐bit colour)
–  (256x192, 3-‐bit colour)

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Ecosystems
•  The Arduino and Raspberry Pi have their own,
vibrant, ecosystems that support, develop and
promote their hardware, soFware and related
resources.
•  This ecosystem includes:
–  The supply chain
–  The support community
–  The educa2on sector

Ecosystems
Examples of the Arduino and

Raspberry Pi Supply Chain

RS Components

RS Components

Element 14 (Farnell)

Element 14 (Farnell)

Smaller, specialist, resellers…
… develop and supply Ardunio (and Arduino-‐
compa2ble) systems and components…
… and Raspberry Pi accessories.
See the Appendix for a number of examples…

Ecosystems
Examples of the Arduino and

Raspberry Pi Support Communi2es

Community support forums…

Community support forums…

…and Wikis

Suppliers -‐ Element 14 (Farnell)…

…and RS Components

Arduino on Youtube

Raspberry Pi on Youtube

Sponsored tutorials…

…Sponsored tutorials…

…and personal efforts

Volunteer team efforts such as…

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The Games Industry…

…yes it does!
hTp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvSke6h7Lk
Eben Upton demonstrates
another popular game…
hTp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mDuJuvZjI
Media Servers too…

Raspbmc

Ecosystems
Educa2on

CS214 Approaches to Mul2media

Binary Clock Project

? Project

CS413 Embedded Systems

CS413 -‐ A Gadget
Phase 1 – Idea, Plan and Outline Design
•  Scenario: Using an Arduino device and, op2onally, a
Raspberry Pi as the basis for an embedded system
‘gadget’ each group is encouraged to come up with their
own idea and to plan, design, implement and document
the gadget. Phase 1 will:
–  Assess the capabili2es of the Arduino (and Raspberry Pi)
system(s) and produce the idea for the gadget.
–  Inves2gate the development environment …
–  Iden2fy the resources required for the gadget …
–  Produce a project plan
–  Produce an outline design

CS413 -‐ A Gadget
Phase 2 – Implementa2on
•  This phase of the project comprises:
–  The implementa2on of the gadget in terms of
hardware and soFware development.
–  The produc2on of the documenta2on…
•  A user guide – what the gadget does
•  A technical manual – how the gadget was designed and
implemented
–  The presenta2on of the report … as web pages with
some video (for the user guide say) or just as a
conven2onal document.

CS413 – Projects from 2011
•  A number of groups last year produced videos of
their gadgets…

Photophobe Bot Video
hTp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SETMYqDf0E
Mastermind

Mastermind Video

Masterbomb video
hTp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ_Ux4PWDY0
Odin

Odin video
hTp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QZidR7QQOk
Train Buffer Video #1

Train Buffer Video #2
hTp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1XHVROaG-‐k
Dark Tower

Dark Tower Video

•  Sadly, the following two projects don’t have video
documenta2on but they do deserve a men2on…

DuinoTo – A game emulator

Drunk Box

CS413 Projects 2012
•  The Embedded Systems group projects this year have just
completed Phase 1. The ideas include:
–  Remote control baTle robots with laser target finders
–  Persistence of vision TwiTer client
–  8 x 8 x 8 LED audio analyser and display
–  Music jukebox
–  T-‐Shirt Message Display and dedicated mobile app
–  Toy missile launcher and intruder detec2on system
–  Vending machine
–  A missile launching tank
–  Home controller
–  Scalectrix telemetry system
–  Tank controlled by PS3/Bluetooth combo
Christmas Future

What does the future hold?
“The best way to predict the future is to invent
it”
Alan Kay

The Next Industrial Revolu2on?

Highlights of Anderson’s video
In the Techcrunch video Anderson talks about:
–  How manufacturing more things through the Maker
movement can actually slow the expansion of junk in
landfills
–  The new expression that “hardware is the new
soFware”
–  Why he thinks we’re at “the Macintosh moment” for
3D printers, a device which he thinks should be in
every home in the foreseeable future.

Inspiring
Open source is a philosophy, not a checkbox. Find more

collaborators, not customers. The future is open.
FabLab

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What does your future hold?
“If I have seen farther it is by standing on the
shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Newton

Ge}ng involved
Watchwords:
– Educa2on and Experimenta2on
– Involvement
•  Contribu2on
•  Promo2on
•  Compe22on
– Enjoyment

Experimenta2on…

MAME Cabinet video
hTp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5npkz0xY1fo
A bit of fun…
hTp://vimeo.com/51950656
It doesn’t need a lot of wires…

Instructables…

Compe22ons for the young…

…and slightly older

…with many to choose from

Promo2ng Open Source

Google Code-‐In
The Google Code-‐in is a contest to introduce pre-‐university
students to the many kinds of contribu2ons that make
open source soFware development possible. It runs from
November 26, 2012 to January 14, 2013.
–  Code: Tasks related to wri2ng or refactoring code
–  Documenta2on/Training: Tasks related to crea2ng/edi2ng
documents and helping others learn more
–  Outreach/Research Tasks related to community management,
outreach/marke2ng or studying problems and recommending
solu2ons
–  Quality Assurance: Tasks related to tes2ng and ensuring code is
of high quality
–  User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or
user interface design and interac2on
Educa2on
What role is there for Open-‐source

SoFware and Hardware?

An Elephant in the Room?

Pi-‐oneering
Innova2ons in educa2on with the Raspberry
Pi
hTp://www.slideshare.net/compatsch/duncan-‐smeed-‐raspberry-‐pioneering
And
hTp://www.youtube.com/user/compu2ngatschool

What?
•  Foundation
•  The Raspberry Pi Founda2on is a UK charity that exists to
promote the study of computer science and to put the
fun back into learning compu2ng
•  Justification
•  The jus2fica2on behind this was the fact that the uptake
of compu2ng in schools and universi2es has been in
steady decline.
•  Inspiration
•  RPi is designed to push kids beyond basic computer
literacy – and to expose them to ‘computa2onal thinking’.

Why?
•  2012 is a year of educa2onal reforms

•  Teachers need resources and support to facilitate
these educa2onal changes
•  Raspberry Pi will offer a founda2on to further the
study of Computer Science and computa2onal
thinking.

Outcomes and Deliverables
•  Teaching and CPD resources. For instance:
–  Contribu2ons to Raspberry Pi community efforts
•  Raspberry Pi User Guide
•  Pi-‐related programming and computer systems material
•  Project-‐based resources, par2cularly in the ‘physical
compu2ng’ domain
•  Repository and annotated index of Pi resources available
elsewhere
–  Course material for teachers’ CPD
–  Tailored SD card images with pre-‐prepared resources
–  Workshop/conference
However…
•  Raspberry Pi availability was a major hurdle
•  Raspberry Pi is s2ll a ‘work in progress’
•  All four poyen2al interns that helped develop the
proposal secured jobs elsewhere! B-‐(
•  Pi-‐oneering may s2ll be Pi-‐in-‐the-‐sky!
•  But there is hope…

Hope…
•  Pi-‐oneering in Summer 2013 may be a possibility
•  Undergraduate coursework and projects
–  Incorpora2ng the Pi into undergraduate coursework to
produce Pi-‐oneering resources
–  Final year projects that use the Pi as a core component
and that deliver, and document, Pi-‐related resources

Final Year Projects
Preamble to all Raspberry Pi Final Year Projects:
This project can be based on a Raspberry Pi and, if so,
the final outcome should, ideally, support (some of)
the aims of the Pi-‐oneering IniDaDve by creaDng
soEware and/or hardware exemplars that can be used
to enthuse school pupils to undertake computer-‐
related studies at undergraduate level and to also
provide resources for future undergraduate students.

Final Year Projects
•  ESCaPADE -‐ Embedded Systems Coursework and Prac2cal
Assignments Development Environment
•  HEARTH -‐ Home Energy Analyser and Remote Telemetry
Hardware
•  PiVoTAL -‐ Pi-‐controlled Vehicle, or Tank, Autonomously Led
•  ICARUS -‐ Image Capture, Analysis and Recogni2on of Unusual
Scenes
•  Pizzazz – a blinkenlights installa2on to produce an
'aTrac2ve combina2on of energy and style'

pioneering
spirit
inspires

Christmas Stocking:
The Students’ Selec2on
A few demos/videos that current

students recommended!

Balancing Robot with Raspberry Pi
hTp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-‐noFwc23y0
TwiTering Chicken
hTp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HHfeWTV0Kc
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Pi and Arduino: “Pioneers of the Open Hardware & SoFware Fron2er”
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Raspberry

Pi and Arduino:

University of Strathclyde

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Background and Context

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

• Home computers your parents may have

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

A (very) brief overview

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Source: Wikipedia <hTp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-­‐source_hardware>

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

A (very) brief overview

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Source:hTp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi photograph by Jwrodgers

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Raspberry Pi -­‐ <£30

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Examples of the Arduino and

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

See the Appendix for a number of examples…

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Examples of the Arduino and

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

Department of Computer and Informa2on Sciences – Christmas Lecture 2012

•  Home computers your parents may have

Source: Wikipedia <hTp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-‐source_hardware>

Raspberry Pi -‐ <£30

What role is there for Open-‐source

•  2012 is a year of educa2onal reforms