The Raspberry Farm project 2019

By Gareth Halfacree from Bradford, UK (Raspberry Pi 3 B+) [CC BY-SA 2.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

I think it's an excellent idea to take up projects that are valuable and that have yielded good results. One does this, not without reflecting on what has been learned previously. The rewarding task is to reread old articles, and reflect on the achievements and, above all, on those things that one would do differently. Better than before.

During the year 2018 we have made the experience of creating a computer farm with ten Raspberries pi 3. All with similar configurations, not identical, personalized in the style of each of its administrators (students in the fourth year of high school) If you want to know something about that endeavor, you can follow this link. Now, in the 2019 edition, we will stand on giants shoulders. The 2019 cohort will start where their predecessors left, with the hope to, not only accelerate and amplify good practices and positive outcomes, but with the goal to serve the school community.  With this in mind, the computer farm should be a resource that students throughout the school can access and use.

So, this year we decided to create a Web Server Farm, so all students throughout the school can publish their own websites. 

This will almost immediately have a positive impact, because it will allow students who are part of the DH cohort to publish their final web development projects.

The students already fulfilled the first phase, which was about the start-up of the Raspberries, the installation of the Raspbian operating system, the configuration of the remote access and some other technical details to integrate the nodes into the school data network.