Showing posts with label optiportable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label optiportable. Show all posts

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Parallel Pong on Raspberry Pis

When building a cluster computer, you need software to run on it. We thought that games would be a great demonstration and this lead us to embark on making the greatest game to ever come to distributed programming, pong.

Everyone needs one of these

Monday, April 8, 2013

UCSD Triton Day 2013

This Saturday, we moved the Sandbox into SDSC's lobby for Triton Day, UCSD's open house for newly admitted students. We set up the OptIPortable that we've been using to try out building tiled displays with Raspberry Pis, since Erik's code (details in a later post) has reached the working demo stage. We thought it would be cool to let next year's students see what kind of things they can find on campus. Some of them had worked on some serious electronics projects in high school, including underwater autonomous vehicle and a NanoRacks experiment.

SDSC Sandbox students working with Raspberry Pis.
The SDSC Sandbox undergraduates (seated) working Raspberry Pis. From left: Amy, Alex, and Erik.