11/16/19

Set Up Raspi

Hey, Maia again! Happy to announce that our Raspberry Pi is (finally) set up! What we thought would be a simple software task turned into a massive undertaking. We had to reset and reflash our RasPi (because the operating system that we were originally working in looked like it crawled out of 2003), then set up all of the right ssh things on both the RasPi and my computer. That turned out to be fairly straight forward, although more time consuming than expected. The real excitement came when we tried to run our code. The way that we are handling characters includes some non-ASCII symbols, which are fine in python 3, but not python two. This meant that our code couldn't actually compile on the RasPi. It took us a sizable amount of time to understand what was going on and how to fix it. Not that screaming at computers and RasPis with Colin for 5 hours wasn't fun, but I am happy that this section of our project is complete. Catch ya later with more printer updates.