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Projects<br />
SHOWCASE<br />
The approachable nature of the<br />
Raspberry Pi brain could easily<br />
allow for classes to code their<br />
own Museum in a Box<br />
he ound fie vry rom oet<br />
to object. Some play music, such<br />
as the Planets prototype box;<br />
home to seven identical wooden<br />
balls, it is set to play one of the<br />
seven tracks of Gustav Holst’s<br />
The Planets suite. While the balls<br />
ny dierentition on the<br />
outside, their insides are unique.<br />
Boop a ball and the experience is<br />
overpowering, thanks in part to<br />
the eutiu eet o the <br />
Heritage of America Band as<br />
the sound of their instruments<br />
swells into life. Now imagine<br />
if these balls were 3D prints of<br />
the instruments that played<br />
famous solos. Or imagine if the<br />
ball was the 3D-printed bust of a<br />
famous composer who narrates<br />
the inspiration behind their<br />
work as their music plays in the<br />
background, captivating young<br />
and old musicians alike.<br />
Inspired education<br />
t diut to eperiene thi<br />
proet without finding youre<br />
coming up with hundreds of your<br />
own ideas for its use.<br />
Given this inevitable excitement<br />
and enthusiasm, the second<br />
intention of the project comes to<br />
life. Imagine if a classroom had<br />
its own Museum in a Box, and,<br />
alongside their brain box, the<br />
students had a second box allowing<br />
RFID TAGS<br />
A radio-frequency<br />
dentfiaton ta s an<br />
inexpensive way of giving an<br />
item its own unique, readable<br />
code. Often confused with the<br />
NFC technology that allows<br />
you to touch your mobile<br />
phone to pay at your local<br />
sermaret or oee sho<br />
an RFID tag is a fairly simple<br />
piece of technology that can<br />
either be active, maintaining<br />
its own power source to allow<br />
o to se t to find ost es<br />
or passive, taking power from<br />
an RFID reader to let you into<br />
a locked building with the<br />
touch of a plastic card.<br />
30 February 2017<br />
raspberrypi.org/magpi