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March 13, 2025 Raspberry Pi Bake-Off: Innovate with Raspberry Pi

On March 13th, 2025, Circuit Revival welcomed back mentor Mr. David Xu to lead his second annual Raspberry Pi Bake-Off workshop at Algoma University. The fully interactive session prioritized hands-on learning, with students disassembling, configuring, and coding their own setups from scratch.

Mr. Xu kicked off with an introduction to Raspberry Pi’s role as an accessible tool for tech experimentation. He broke down operating systems, kernel functions, and the value of open-source communities. Students then followed step-by-step demos, walking through installing Raspbian OS on SD cards and booting their devices.

Each pair of students received a brand-new Raspberry Pi 5 starter kit, tasked with flashing Raspbian OS onto SD cards and troubleshooting boot processes collaboratively. Attendees dove into Linux CLI navigation, wrote Python scripts to control GPIO pins, and installed dependencies via terminal commands, all under Mr. Xu’s guidance.

Highlights included real-time debugging challenges and customizing OS images for unique projects. By workshop’s end, teams had built functional prototypes, from LED blink circuits to sensor-driven data loggers. The experience equipped students with tangible skills in open-source development, hardware-software integration, and collaborative problem-solving, reinforcing Raspberry Pi’s role as a gateway to innovation.

Instructor slides to the Raspberry Pi Bake-Off– Credit Instructor David Xu