{"id":4113,"date":"2015-09-21T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2015-09-21T18:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T22:05:17","slug":"raspberry-pis-and-arduinos-come-to-schulich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/raspberry-pis-and-arduinos-come-to-schulich\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi&#8217;s and Arduinos come to Schulich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_2105_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4114 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_2105_1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Launch of Raspberry Pi and Arduino lending program at Schulich - 21 Sept 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_2105_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_2105_1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_2105_1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We had a lot of fun this morning at Schulich launching our new\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\" target=\"_blank\">Arduino<\/a><\/strong> lending programme! These devices are two types of credit-card sized computer which are developing a rapidly growing following due to the ways they can be incorporated into a wide range of projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_2108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4115 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_2108-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2108\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_2108-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_2108-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_2108-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Schulich will start lending these items out later this week, for a loan period of two weeks, and will be monitoring the service over the next few weeks &#8211; the kits will be available on a first-come, first-served basis like all other library materials.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll also be lending out a robotics unit and a wearable computing device.\u00a0 Please come to the Schulich loans desk if you&#8217;d like to borrow a kit.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d love to hear about the creative ways these are used by the McGill community!\u00a0 If you take out a kit, please spare us two minutes to give us your feedback using <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QurtSR\" target=\"_blank\">this form<\/a>, and consider <a href=\"mailto:schulich.library@mcgill.ca\" target=\"_blank\">sending pictures of your project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lot of fun this morning at Schulich launching our new\u00a0Raspberry Pi and Arduino lending programme! These devices are two types of credit-card sized computer which are developing a rapidly growing following due to the ways they can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/raspberry-pis-and-arduinos-come-to-schulich\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,200,173],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-computers","tag-mcgill-library","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}