FLCC ARCADE

Activities Day will be held on Tuesday March 28, 2017. The Computing Sciences department has an activity planned this year that will blow your socks off! We will be using a Raspberry Pi - that's a really inexpensive computer (like $40) - and load on Linux as well as Emulation Station.

Linux, as you probably know, is an open-sourced operating system. It can run all sorts of powerful software (like Gimp, which is a very capable alternative to Photoshop), OpenOffice (a sweet alternative to Microsoft Office), and plenty of other software.

Emulation Station is a console emulator (there are about 25 different emulators in the software). If you have ROMs (which are the games for these emulators), you can have a sick video arcade at home!

So here's the deal - we will have some Raspberry Pi units to give out. For free. But the catch is that we won't have enough for everyone. So we're going to raffle them off before the event. Register for the event (click the button below); submitting the form counts as both registration for Activity Day and an entry into the raffle. Please do not register for the event if you are not coming - you will only complicate the process for everyone else, and you won't be eligible for the Raspberry Pi. And you'll be haunted by ghosts for eternity.

You'll find out (by coming to this site on Monday, March 13 - the day before Pi Day!!!!) if you won. Winners will get their Raspberry Pi at the event, but must be present for the duration of the event in order to keep it. No fair winning a Pi, showing up for a bit, grabbing the Pi, and then leaving. Nope. You have to stick around and participate in the fun, sweet activities.

Please note that you do NOT need to buy anything to participate in Activities Day! If you want to buy the Pi and accessories, we'll release a shopping list on March 13. But we will have some items on hand during the day that you can play with if you haven't bought your own.

If you have any questions, talk to your professor! See you there!

ROUGH ITINERARY

Demo of Raspberry Pi [including Raspbian and EmulationStation]
Distribute hardware and install Raspbian
- Show how to install sick apps like Gimp and LibreOffice
- Sweet, sweet command line nerd stuff
Install Emulation Station
- Load some games [no illegal ROMs - just some HomeBrew stuff]
Make nerdy jokes
Say goodbye

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Spring 2017

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