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Episode 27: BYU OIT AV Services On Raspberry Pi’s, Open Source, Big Data & Security

Today’s episode is a little different. Instead of interviewing a person, we review a University project that is changing it’s traditional control systems to Raspberry Pi’s and Raspberry Pi Touchscreens. Joining us from the Brigham Young University OIT AV Services team to discuss this project are Daniel Wells: Director of AV Engineering, Brad Streeter: Chief Engineer and Joe Blodgett: Primary Developer of the open source AV control and management solution.

The project can be found here:
https://github.com/byuoitav

Highlights

  • You can’t know what kind of interfaces the customer will need. Giving them an API gives them the freedom to adapt the system as their needs change.
  • Active learning classrooms can have up to 10 displays. Because commodity hardware is so affordable, BYU is able to deploy a touchscreen control systems for almost every video display.
  • Microservers running in a Docker container could be an interesting way to create cross platform device drivers.
  • The SALT stack can be used to manage policies and security updates on Linux devices.
  • The ELK stack can be used to store and visualise data.

Mentions

Daniel Wells, Brad Streeter, Joe Blodgett, BYU, Raspberry Pi, Sony, Epson, ELK, Aurora Reax, C#, .net, Node.js, Golang, Docker, SALT, Linux, JWT, CCUMC, University Of Utah