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<p><strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org">Raspberry Pi</a><br />
<strong>Presenter:</strong> Main Speaker Pete Soper coordinating with a group of Splat Space hackers of Durham NC <br />
<strong>When:</strong> Thursday, January 10, 7pm<br />
<strong>Where:</strong> Red Hat HQ, NCSU Centennial Campus, 1801 Varsity Dr, Raleigh, NC<br />
<strong>Map:</strong> <a href="href=https://maps.google.com/maps?q=red+hat+1801+Varsity+Drive,+Raleigh,+NC&hl=en&sll=35.77418,-78.6761&sspn=0.009592,0.021136&hq=red+hat+1801+Varsity+Drive,+Raleigh,+NC">Google Maps</a><br />
<strong>Slides:</strong> <a href="/~porter/meetings/2013-01-10_RaspberryPi.pdf">PDF</a><br />
<strong>Video:</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDjpAHbB-Mg">YouTube</a><br /></p>
<p>® Raspberry Pi is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation</p>
<p><strong>Raspberry Pi:</strong></p>
<p>Raspberry Pi is a very inexpensive, richly capable single board computer (SBC)
designed for educational settings. It features a modest speed ARM chip, a half
gigabyte of RAM, flash SD, USB, ethernet, graphic and direct digital I/O
interfaces that work together with a highly capable port of Debian Linux as a
general purpose computing system that can as easily host your home web server
or LAN engine as it can keep an eye on your thermostat or dispense cat food
while you're away.</p>
<p><strong>Synopsis:</strong></p>
<p>In this introduction to Raspberry Pi attendees will get up close and personal
with the hardware and software combination that is setting a new high water
mark for price, performance, and useability. Multiple RPi demos in the main
and conference rooms will be in operation during the meeting to provide the
best opportunity for hands on experience. Traditional slide presentations
will cover where RPi came from, what its capabilities are, and its charter
for driving a wide range of educational opportunities while serving as an
"instant platform" for a wide range of applications in hobby and light
commercial settings. The bulk of the meeting will offer demos that go from
"close to the metal," low level apps encroaching on the traditional domain of
the Arduino family of SBCs to high level tools such as Clojure (Lisp
implemented with the Java virtual machine). Join a group of Splat Space
hackers coordinated by the main speaker as they and other volunteers provide
a rich introduction to this remarkable $35 device.</p>
<p><strong>Bio:</strong></p>
<p>Alan Dipert is a Clojure programmer working for LonoCloud, Inc. Clojure is a
Lisp for the JVM that runs nicely on the Raspberry Pi, and in his spare time
Alan enjoys writing Clojure programs on his Pi to do mostly useless but
occasionally entertaining things.</p>
<p>Inspired by electronic music to study Electronics, Physics, and Computer
Science in the 1970's. Peter Reintjes currently uses his skills to make
interactive music and video projects for SparkCon and to develop and maintain
exhibits at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science. He works with
Arduino, PIC, and a few micro-controllers you haven't heard of, but now keeps a
Raspberry PI in his toolbag.</p>
<p>Pete Soper is an underemployed software engineer who wrote and worked on system
software like OS kernels, virtual machines, data communication protocols,
compilers and runtime environments for five OEMs, three of which he helped
start from scratch and saw bought by bigger fish. Recently he's looped back to
embedded development to make data loggers and other gadgets out of off the
shelf boards and custom PCBs.</p>
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