Day 4

The team completed the Sensing Science experiments from the Raspberry Pi Foundations website. We have proven to ourselves that the Raspberry Pi can be used to conduct experiments in the science class as prescribed by the Quebec curriculum. Furthermore, with some Python coding skills the pre-made experiments can be adapted or manipulated to fit our specific needs. For example, one can modify the code to have the camera module start and stop a timer based on the brightness it senses.

Later we discovered how to repurpose old digital microscopes by replacing the eyepiece lens with the Pi Camera module. This allowed us to stream magnifications of specimens to a screen and snap pictures to be saved. A lot of time was spent to find and use the correct Python code.