Raspberry Pi Free Hack
Time N/A

Difficulty Intermediate
Prerequisites Teardown & Rebuild (PC)
Departments Human Technologies
Authors Ross Parker
Groupings Individual
Pairs
Threes
Minimum Year Group None

Blurb

The Raspberry Pi is a very flexible platform, and there are tons of things we can create. This unit gives you some ideas, and you can find your own, for a hackable project involving a Pi.

License

This work is shared under the following license: Creative Commons BY-SA-NC

Outline

The Pitch
Why should I bother learning this?
  • Take a cheap, tiny computer, and build something around it? Awesome!
Resources
What is needed to run this unit?
  • Laptop
  • Internet access
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Other parts and tools depending on your project.
Interdisciplinary Links
Do not try and force this. What areas of other subjects might this reflect and/discuss language. For IB, links with ToK.
Teacher Reflection
What was successful? What needs changing? Alternative Assessments and Lesson Ideas? What other Differentiation Ideas/Plans could be used?
Credits
Any CC attribution, thanks, credit, etc.

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Build It!
The Pitch
  • Take a cheap, tiny computer, and build something around it? Awesome!
  • In this unit you will buy your own Raspberry Pi, and then hack it into some kind of cool system or solution.
Do It
Hands On
  • Once you have settled on your idea, get permission from your parents, and start gathering the parts and tools you need.
  • Then build it!
  • As you build, take photos of yourself working on the device.
Evidence
Finishing Up
  • Create a post with a photo gallery to your Student Exhibition Site, of you working on your device, showing the device, and you doing the work. Add some photos of the finishing product, and screenshots of appropriate.
  • Submit the link to the post to Gibbon.
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