The Detector is YOU

A collaborative experience where you become part of a particle detector.

How to run the activity from the Microsquad Raspberry Pi

Start the MQTT Gateway

• Power up the Raspberry Pi and ensure it is connected to the network (e.g. microsquad.cern.ch)
• Open a terminal and execute

cd workspace/microsquad/modules/gateway
. ./setup-venv.sh

Ensure the Microsquad Gateway (Bitio) is connected via USB, then start the gateway

python -m microsquad.gateway.mqtt

Start the Microsquad Web UI

• Open a terminal and execute

cd workspace/microsquad/modules/web-ui
source source-path.sh
npm start

Start the Presentation (the easy way)

• Download the reveal microservice executable. For instance :

wget https://github.com/bcopy/revealjs-microservice/releases/download/latest/reveal-microservice-ubuntu-latest

You can now open a web browser at the address : http://microsquad:8001/

Start the Presentation (the NPM way)

• Open a terminal and execute

cd workspace/the-detector-is-you
source source-path.sh
npm start

How to reset the MQTT players' data between two games

sudo service mosquitto stop
sudo rm /var/lib/mosquitto/mosquitto.db
sudo service mosquitto start