About that exam
We are having an exam on Wednesday, 18 April. This is a hands-on exam, mostly on the circuit building with the Arduino Raspberry Pi admininstration, and a little networking.
The Arduino section
During the Arduino section, you will be asked to setup up an Arduino that involves external devices such as the following:
- switches
- potentiometers
- LEDs
- Servos (unlikely)
Because it takes a bit of time to setup these components on a breadboard, you will use Tinkercad Circuits to “create” your circuit, rather than building a breadboard. You will then shared the circuit with me.
I will point out that it is easy to duplicate an existing TinkerCad circuit. I have several created just for that purpose.
Today, practice sharing a circuit with me. Also, you might reshare those old ones I haven’t graded.
The Raspberry Pi section
During the Raspberry Pi section, you will be asked to log into a Raspberry Pi do some of the following activities:
- Create a user account.
- Add that user account to appropriate groups.
- Use git to install software from Adafruit.
- Create some directories with files.
- Use tar to archive the user directory.
- Submit the archived directory to moodle, which will probably require copying the archive to your workstation.
The Networking part
Connect to a TCP port on a remote computer and leave a message!
The limitations of time
Because there is a class that meets in RRO 223 immediately after ours, there will be strict time limit on the completion of this exam.
Practice, Practice, Practice
Try this out in today’s class.