Designing hardware APIs to facilitate hands-on learning

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Obelisk Systems builds a Raspberry Pi–powered classroom module called the SML kit and a binary middleware named the Obelisk Abstraction Engine that hides low‑level sensor code so students read accelerometer, gyro, magnetometer, light, UV, pressure and camera data with a few Python calls. Over 50 schools and 60 kits adopt it, logging at 25–400 Hz; a balloon flight validates rapid humidity and altitude traces and one master unit is slated to run student experiments on the ISS. Original bundled price was about $1,100.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:18DESIGNING HARDWARE APIS TO FACILITATE HANDS-ON LEARNING ANDREAS ANTONIADES
3. 0:51MAKING HARDWARE COOL FOR KIDS – THE STORY OF A SPACE STARTUP ANDREAS ANTONIADES
4. 1:22OBELISK SYSTEMS
5. 2:21COST REDUCTION
6. 3:45WHERE DID IT START?
7. 6:27FOR A BETTER TOMORROW
8. 7:52PROGRAMMING FOR OUR SPACE DEVELOPMENT: - NEEDS TO BE FLEXIBLE - NEEDS TO BE RELATIVELY FAST - NEEDS TO BE SIMPLE FOR EDUCATION
9. 8:32ITS SIMPLE SYNTAX - CAN INTERFACE WITH HARDWARE - TOP 5 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE - STEM APPLICABLE
10. 11:41ACCELEROMETER MAGNETOMETER GYROSCOPE TEMPERATURE CAMERA
11. 12:45POWERING THE FIRST ALL-AUSTRALIAN PAYLOAD TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
12. 12:58NOVEMBER LAUNCH, 2016
13. 13:27LETS TALK PYTHON
14. 15:46SOLUTION: MAKE A HARDWARE API FOR STUDENTS BOTH HIGHSCHOOL UNIVERSITY LEVEL
15. 19:50BUT HOW DOES IT WORK?
16. 22:07SELF-CONTAINED SYSTEM - HANDLES ALL HARDWARE HACKERY - EXTREMELY FAST BACK-END - STUDENT JUST IMPORTS LIBRARY
17. 22:42WHAT YOU END UP WITH: - RELEVANT AND FUN DATA - LIVE AND SIMPLE - REAL SCIENCE, REAL PROGRAMMING - MEETING LEARNING OUTCOMES

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