Graphical Programming for Budding Engineers on Raspberry Pi

Client: MathWorks

Contact: Milos Puzovic Milos.Puzovic@mathworks.co.uk

Model-Based Design (MBD) is a prevalent methodology that is used in complex control, signal processing and communication systems to address problems that arise during their design. Engineers in, for example, aerospace and automotive industries use MBD to define models that have advanced functional capabilities by pictorially combining well-defined building blocks and describing communication between them. Unfortunately school children are not exposed to MBD at an early age and as a result do not grasp how engineering is made enjoyable and rewarding by tinkering with combinations and communications between building blocks. Your task is to design a light-weight interface that can run directly on Raspberry Pi that will enable school children to write applications that can seamlessly use the underlying hardware and peripherals connected to the Raspberry Pi. You will need to identify basic building blocks that will make school children interested in your interface and are powerful enough to create applications that a child's mind may envision. Finally, you should be able to demonstrate how easy it is to create an application using your interface that is eye catching, such as tracking the movement of a yellow duck toy.