Andre Castro
My name is Andre Castro. I am a media designer, with a background in sound art and experimental music, and a current practice focused on hybrid publishing, underground digital libraries ( Bibliotecha ) and the intersection between technology and design processes. I am a user and advocate of Free/Open Source software.
I work as a tutor at the Master of Media Design and Communication at the Piet Zwart Institute and at Willem de Kooning's Publication Station. In 2013 I completed the Master's program of Media Design and Communication at the Piet Zwart Institute, and graduated in 2007 from the Sonic Arts BA program at Middlesex University.
Presenting with Lucia Dossin
Workshop: Bibliotecha
Bibliotecha is a local offline network for distribution of digital texts, which allows small communities to build and share their electronic text collections. Bibliotecha relies on a small computer (a RaspberryPi) running open-source software to serve the ebooks over a local WIFI hotspot. Using the browser to connect to it, one is given the option to retrieve or donate texts.
Bibliotecha's workshop is centered on implementing from the ground up a series of Bibliotecha nodes. The workshop will introduce Bibliotecha's essential architecture, the open-source software it relies upon, such as Calibre, Lighttpd and hostapd, as well as Unix/Linux fundamental concepts such as the shell interface, time-sharing, SSH protocol, Linux software repositories, captive portals, etc. At the end of the workshop each (group of) participant(s) will take home a Bibliotecha node, ready to distribute electronic books.
Participants with all levels of knowledge are welcomed. You just need to have a laptop and be at ease with it ;]
Materials
- Raspberry Pi (model 1) or Raspberry Pi 2 (model 2)
- 10$ for the SD-card pre-installed with all needed software.
- Power-supply for Raspberry Pi
- Ethernet cable
- USB-wifi adapter with generic 80211 driver (list in https://wikidevi.com/wiki/List_of_802.11ac_Hardware#Wireless_adapters )
- Laptop with Ethernet port (Linux or Mac; Windows will be tricky to help you with SSHing and interaction with Unix-like Pi operating system, but if you are comfortable doing it on your own all should be fine).
