Ideas for improving the Galton board software
  • Mass of balls
  • Size of balls
  • Size of pins
  • Width of barriers
  • Fix lag
    • Due to N=300?
  • Deploy on Pis from GitHub repo, automate updates
  • Get light gates working
  • Somehow show effect of large N
    • If performance is an issue, pre-calculate
  • Add option to drip feed balls into simulation
  • Check dependencies
  • Add sliders to change physical parameters
  • Change gravity on the fly? As a vector? Accelerometers in Pis?
  • Maybe: allow barriers to be drawn in by hand
  • Consider using some more up-to-date libraries? Touch screen interactivity, GUI, physics?
  • Make it into a webapp? (not to replace Pi software, to provide in addition)
Plan of action
  • I’ve added the more pedestrian suggestions as issues on the repo.
  • We can assign people interested in working on these there.