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Solar powered AI servers at HPA
Global concerns about the energy impact of AI servers and networks have led HPA to secure a grant to develop our own local, in-house GPT AI server, hosted on the largest server Apple makes. Created by Junior Kelan Kennedy, this server named Tailwind (a play on...
Grade 3 visits the elab!
Recently a hoard of third graders emerged from not one, but two buses to take over the elab in a flurry of energy! Their first visit was an introduction to the projects going on here, led by our wonderful independent science research team of Tiffany Ravaglia, ...
elab.hpa.edu adds surfcams and earthquake maps
Wonder how big the last quake was, and where was it located? How strong is the wind today, and will it ever end? I want to go surfing/paddling/swimming/fishing-what is the ocean like this minute? How much vog is in the air now, all over our island? What is the...
Brain waves at the elab
Started in 2010 as a project by Seniors Mariko Thorbecke and Duncan Michael, we are now many generations of brain wave headsets beyond the first units, with three new brain wave headsets enabling students to measure concentration, brain activity and even local...
New Island Science class at the elab
Wonder how to find where you are on the island using a compass? Ever wonder where the earthquakes are from? What will our island look like in 100 years? How did Polynesians navigate to our island? All of these and many more are part of our new Island Science c...
Meshtastic
Why would I use this: Hikers or back country out of direct range to cellular or internet Emergency workers where infrastructure is damaged, overloaded or non-existent Remote neighborhoods cutoff from outside communication Casual users or events (e.g. marathon...
computer engineering
Welcome to the home page for computer engineering at HPA, Spring 2025 Class description: With the advent of AI, new fields are emerging, and to prepare you for this future, you will need hands-on experience with the tools that run AI, cybersecurity, ethical ha...
VOM meter basics
VOM/DVM Fluke 114: FLUKE 114 TREM.png Fluke 101: 6000.png V~ means AC voltage V-- means DC voltage (red +, black -) mV means millivolts (caution with this one) Ω means ohms ||| means sound for continuity (114) -||- means capacitor check (101) Hz means frequenc...
AI primer
What can you do that AI cannot do? What can students do now that they could not pre-AI? Not about what AI can do, but what it cannot do... New terms: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine learning (ML) Neural networks: “neural nets” Artificial general intellige...
Raspberry Pi basics
Raspberry Pi Debian Buster basics update to bullseye 1.25.22—— update to bullseye 9.23.23--- update to bullseye 1.14.25— What you will need: computer of some sort with a terminal application internet connection on the local area network permission from the own...
Module 1: terminal commands
Download TC 1.0.pdf (application/pdf, 637.9 KB) Module 1: Terminal first steps Using terminal on the raspberry pi: Start with ping: ping sends a data packet to a machine on the internet, and tells you how long it takes to return, like sonar try pinging 10.14.0...
Module 2: wild cards, man pages, deleting files
Module 2: wild cards, man pages, deleting files This is how wild cards work: Instead of typing out herobrine, you could type h* just make sure that nothing else matches the h part. Another example: These files are in a folder called test: malcolm mary tom if y...
Module 3: internet
Module 3: Internet Your computer needs 4 things to be able to get onto the internet: IP address, example 10.14.8.4 Subnet mask, example 255.255.0.0 Gateway/router, example 10.14.0.1 Domain name server (DNS), example 10.9.250.13 Here's what each one does: IP ad...
Module 4: web servers
Module 4: web server and web pages (html) see also https://elab.hpa.edu/cs/TC/TC%205.0%20HTML.pdf Background: html stands for hypertext markup language it is a markup language, not really programming like python or C it manages how information is presented ("m...
TC pdf directory
https://elab.hpa.edu/cs/TC/ Migrated from Apple Server Wiki. Original page ID: C319U4u
Class notes
Wednesday, 1.15.25 Hre's a summary you may want to include in your notes: use the wifi icon to get IP address and wifi speed (option) use command-space to find terminal use ifconfig to verify your IP address (more on this next) ping to see if others are awake ...
Network scanning
We'll be using the program IPnetmonitor on the mac computers: https://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_ipmx_overview.html Screenshot 2025-02-02 at 12.41.43 PM.png Type command-L to get to the launcher.Let's try a few commands:Find your iPhone on the network: join t...
html challenge
By now you have been able to create a basic web page, upload to a server, and view either locally or on a remote server. Your challenges: Part 1: creating a web page on a web server enable apache2 web server on one of our machines or your local machine (mac i...