Raspberry pi and Indian Educational domain, digital India, Initiatives in India Indian Educational Ecosystem,

1. RASPBERRY PI - ITS POTENTIAL FOR
DESIGNING VARIOUS SERVICES IN AN
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
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AGENDA
 What is Raspberry Pi
 Raspberry Pi History and timeline
 Preparing Raspberry Pi for use
 Raspberry Pi initiatives in India
 Role of Raspberry Pi in Indian Educational Ecosystem
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3. The Raspberry Pi is a low cost,
credit-card sized computer that
plugs into a computer monitor or TV,
and uses a standard keyboard and
mouse.
It is powerful brain behind
thousands of creations.
Source: http://www.raspberrypi.org

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RASPBERRY PI INITIATIVES IN INDIA
 The Kerala government under the scheme ‘Learn to Code’ will
distribute 10,000 kits annually to students, primarily in eighth
standard, and follow it up with focused training and mentoring
sessions and competitions.
 It is being implemented by the Technopark Technology
Business Incubator (TTBI) in association with Kerala's
IT@School project and Kochi-based mobile internet
technology incubator Startup Village.
 Kerala government had also announced innovative student
entrepreneurship policy and kept 500cr for making state as
startup hub.
 Kerala celebrated September 12 as entrepreneurship day.
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Source : Indo Asian News Service, 19 February 2015

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ROLE OF RASPBERRY PI IN INDIAN
EDUCATIONAL ECOSYSTEM
Raspberry Pi-Kiosk Website
 Website is made of certain panels. Certain
panels would cycle through multiple posts
in a slider format, while other simply
presented a fixed message.
 The auto updating was achieved using
AJAX and jQuery, with the data being sent
in JSON strings from the server.
 The content management system like
WordPress, allowing specific employees to
easily update and add new posts potentially
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RASPBERRY PI-KIOSK
 Birthday greetings.
 General Information about the institution.
 Daily Class and Lecture Schedules.
 Meeting Schedules - The admin dept could flash the
timings and agenda of meetings.
 Important Notices with assigned priority levels.
 Students Achievements - Accomplishments by a
student/group can be posted in the form of PPT for
some time.
 Candid Interviews - Short videos of students working
on projects.
 Results - The results of exams conducted, just like
they are put up on notice boards.
 Competition/ Festival Celebration Updates.
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 Smartboards is an interactive
networked public noticeboard
framework, by Cambridge
Computer Lab's Graphics and
Interaction research group
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ATTENDANCE SYSTEM
 Low cost attendance system
 Pi-Cam is used as attendance system to take a
picture of the student/teachers in a institution.
 It can be used like an CCTV camera with enhanced
functionalities.
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EDU PI SERVER
 Edu Pi - Server Version - LMS/ KA-Lite type Application
with educational content
 LMS is anytime, anywhere learning
 Learning costs reduced
 Easy customization of content
 Reports and statistics for better
monitoring
 Personalized learning with LMS
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EDU PI DESKTOP
 Edu Pi - Desktop Version instead
of regular PC in Labs
 Low Cost Computer
 Power consumption
 No moving parts, Easy to Deploy
 Small form factor, Easy to Carry
 No noise
 Expansion capabilities
 Huge community support
 Overclocking capability
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FOSSEE
Free and Open Source Software for
Education - Distro for Raspberry Pi
 Scilab
 Python
 Oscad
 OpenFOAM
 OR Tools
 FOSSEE project is part of the
National Mission on Education
through ICT with the thrust area
being “Adaptation and
deployment of open source
simulation packages equivalent
to proprietary software”

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E-LEARNING SOLUTION USING
RASPBERRY PI
 EDU Pi “Knowledge in your Hands”
Remote Areas Community Hotspots for Education & Learning

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ASTRO PI
 A Raspberry Pi Distro for learning Space Science and
Programming - http://astro-pi.org/
 A team of leading UK Space companies have joined
forces with British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake to offer
students the chance to devise and code their own app or
experiment to run on a Raspberry Pi which will be taken
to the International Space Station as part of Tim's
mission.
 Astro Pi is Raspberry Pi computer with special add-on
board full of sensors, a camera and LED display. It is
perfect for space science and learning about
programming.
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ASTRO PI
 Hardware Attached on Top(HAT) Board includes:
 Gyroscope, Accelerometer
 Magnetometer, Temperature sensor
 Barometric pressure sensor
 Humidity sensor
 8×8 RGB LED matrix display
 Visible light or Infra-red (Pi NoIR) Cameras
 5 button joystick
 Additional functional push buttons
 Real time clock with backup battery
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RASPBERRY PI BASED POCKET LABORATORY
 Raspbian or Edu Pi distro with Virtual Labs debian package
installed.
http://vlead.vlabs.ac.in/
 To provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of
Science and Engineering.
 To enthuse students to conduct experiments by arousing
their curiosity. This would help them in learning basic and
advanced concepts through remote experimentation.
 To provide a complete Learning Management System
around the Virtual Labs where the students can avail the
various tools for learning, including additional web-
resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self
evaluation.
 To share costly equipment and resources, which are
otherwise available to limited number of users due to
constraints on time and geographical distances.
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SONIC PI - FOR MUSIC EDUCATION
 A free live coding synth for everyone originally designed
to support computing and music lessons within schools.
 Sonic Pi is a Music Teacher Award finalist.
http://sonic-pi.net/
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RASPBERRY PI - KODI
 Multimedia Section in School for
primary students/ special
occasions using Kodi installed on
Raspberry Pi and a projector or
HD Screen.
 Some Schools take students to
watch movies/ live streams. It
could be done with Raspberry Pi
running Kodi and a big screen or
projector.
http://kodi.wiki/view/Raspberry_
Pi
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PINET
 PiNet is a free and open source project for helping
schools set up and manage a Raspberry Pi classroom.

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RASPBERRY PI CLOUD
 Dropbox/Google Drive Clone using Raspberry Pi using
OwnCloud
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RASPBERRY PI CLUSTER
 Many Pi's make light work. But when put together it
can make havoc.
 The University of Southampton has made a RPi
Supercomputer.
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SCRATCH THE PI
 Scratch is a visual programming language. It can be
accessed as a free desktop and online multimedia
authoring tool that can be used by students, scholars,
teachers, and parents to easily create games and
provide a stepping stone to the more advanced world of
computer programming.
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