... and the web.

reveal.js

impress.js

github, forking, merging

Mozilla OS

FAIL #1: No Documentation

FAIL #2: No sharing

FAIL #3: No attribution

FAIL #4: Duplication of Effort

#1: Document thoroughly

#2: Share back

#3: Give credit

#4: Only fork when useful

Publishing

Some examples of how we might do more to influence campus behaviors include encouraging faculty members to retain enough rights in their published intellectual property that they can share it with colleagues and students, deposit it in open access repositories, and repurpose it for future research.

-- Inside Higher Ed, 2/23/12

High School

Research

Crisis of Reproducibility

• In cancer research
• In pyschology
• In biomedicine

Single Processor

• 32 kB memory
• 16 MHz

One program

• setup()
• loop()
• No operating system

Input and output 'pins'

• measure voltages
• apply voltages
• input, output, control
• 'physical computing'

Tutorials

Single Processor

• 512 MB memory
• 700 MHz
• Can run 'full-fledged' operating system

• Geared for teaching programming, education
• Enormous community
• Many tutorials available
• $45 for a full-fledged computer

Alternatives

• Beagle Bone

"A community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms."

History

• Mapping in Peru
• Gulf Oil Spill

Tools

• Kite Mapping
• Spectroscopy
• Plant health
• Thermal photography

A new model for academic research?

• Research Notes
• Wiki
• Google Group