Running on a Raspberry Pi
Overview
About the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a computer the size of a credit card. By default, the Pi runs a customized version of Debian Linux called Raspbian.
Figure 1. The Raspberry Pi is nothing more than a print board with some connections. Yet it may be (almost) all you need to run psychological experiments!
See also:
Installing OpenSesame
You can install OpenSesame in Raspbian with the script shown in Listing 1. Change $OSVER to match the latest version of OpenSesame.
#!/bin/bash
OSVER="0.27.4" # Change to latest version of OpenSesame
FAENZAVER=1
echo "Installing dependencies"
sudo apt-get install python-pygame python-qt4 python-qscintilla2 python-imaging python-serial python-numpy python-tk
echo "Downloading OpenSesame"
wget https://github.com/smathot/OpenSesame/archive/release/$OSVER.tar.gz
echo "Extracting OpenSesame"
tar xvfz $OSVER.tar.gz
echo "Removing OpenSesame archive"
rm $OSVER.tar.gz
echo "Downloading Faenza icons"
wget http://files.cogsci.nl/misc/faenza-icons-for-opensesame-$FAENZAVER.tar.gz
echo "Extracting Faenza icons"
tar xvfz faenza-icons-for-opensesame-$FAENZAVER.tar.gz
echo "Moving Faenza to OpenSesame folder"
mv Faenza OpenSesame-release-$OSVER/resources/theme/default/
echo "Removing Faenza archive"
rm faenza-icons-for-opensesame-$FAENZAVER.tar.gz
Listing 1. Script for installing OpenSesame onto Raspbian.
Running OpenSesame
To start OpenSesame, navigate to the folder where OpenSesame has been installed and execute opensesame or opensesamerun:
cd OpenSesame-release-0.27.4
./opensesame
Limitations
At the time of testing, the Raspberry Pi does not support hardware-accelerated graphics. This means that only the legacy back-end works.
More information
Some tests and impressions are available here:
