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This project can help build the Milwaukee Makerspace community by keeping the space in our member’s minds as they travel, sharing with our community. Also, the traveling mascot will encourage frequent additions to our website. | This project can help build the Milwaukee Makerspace community by keeping the space in our member’s minds as they travel, sharing with our community. Also, the traveling mascot will encourage frequent additions to our website. | ||
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+ | ====== Call for Help ====== | ||
+ | The project is making slow progress. It could really use additional help. Here are some sub-projects that volunteers could help with: | ||
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+ | ===== Physical Manifestation ===== | ||
+ | The mascot should look non-threatening, | ||
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+ | ===== Web Page Design and Implementation ===== | ||
+ | The mascot should communicate with humans through a webpage. That webpage should report where the mascot has gone, who took it. Additionally the escort should be able to add written and photographic annotations to the mascot' | ||
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+ | ===== Web Hosting ===== | ||
+ | Where should the above webpage be hosted. We could setup a webserver on the Raspberry Pi, and we humans can find out where it's been when it happens to be online. This would require setting up a dynamic DNS. We could alternatively host the webpage on a more stable server, and have the Raspberry Pi report back. Would anybody be willing to work out these issues to setup hosting of the webpage? | ||
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+ | ===== GPS Data Collection and Systems Programming ===== | ||
+ | Batteries are not powerful enough to run the mascot continuously for a trip, but they can record GPS data for 16 hours with our hardware. Getting the Raspberry Pi to process that data so it can be delivered to the webpage requires some low level programming. Eric has been concentrating on this portion of the project, but would welcome additional contributors. | ||
====== Project Members ====== | ====== Project Members ====== |