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Understanding ecology has become more important as we experience climate change and its impact. Ecology can lead us to ideas and solutions on how we may maintain and improve our environment, manage existing resources, and develop new resources, and continue to successfully adapt to new changes because it provides insight into the interaction between biotic and abiotic factors in our environment and how humans and other living organisms influence one another. In this workshop, we will utilize the Raspberry Pi to monitor living and non-living factors in our environment and share that information via Twitter.
Please check out some resources for this workshop.
Little story behind why I chose Raspberry-Pi to tinker with: I am an in vivo neuroscience researcher by training and have years of experience of running rodent behavior assays. As a part of preparing for grant proposals, I spent my share of time on contacting various vendors away from my scientific research to reduce the budget requirement. Research labs spend 10s of thousands on purchasing equipment and software, but we are expected to deal with clunky devices and inadequate software and their updates. Colleague of mine once lamented that all these we were trying could be accomplished with a lot less money using Raspberry Pi. Though we thought we were knowledgeable enough to tackle it, we were hurried to make research progress rather than “fussing” around with Raspberry Pi. Years later, I now have an opportunity to “tinker” with it.
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