Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Getting Ready for MassCUE

We've been scrambling a bit this week to get ready for our MassCUE presentation.  There are some logistics to sort out re: the equipment we are bringing- Raspberry Pi's, Makey Makeys, laptops, speakers and the necessary power cords and audio cables.  The trickiest bit is that setting up WiFi on the Pi is a bit of a chore and rather than trying to do that on the fly at the conference, we have shared the MacBook's internet connection with the Pi via internet.  Since we want to run the Pi headless, this solution means we don't have to drag along a keyboard, mouse and monitor to set up the Pi's WiFi on site.  It is also possible to ssh into the Pi from a connected Mac or even use X-forwarding, but this solution seemed simplest and one that we could test in advanced.  As of yesterday, it worked!

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