PiCrate

Author: monkstone

about.md

@@ -6,17 +6,21 @@ permalink: /about/
 ### The group ###
 The ruby-processing group exists to collect together projects that support creating and running processing sketches in ruby. It is also designed to hide the inevitably high [bus factor][bus] of what is an essentially __one man band__, but I am trying hard to make it otherwise (including evolving the code). You could play your part...
 
-There are two main projects [JRubyArt][jruby_art] and [propane][propane], [JRubyArt][jruby_art] is the closest to the original ruby-processing and provides a ruby wrapper around the latest [vanilla processing][processing], it depends on a vanilla processing install (but can be configured to not require a jruby install). [Propane][propane] is a configuration free, complete version of ruby-processing (_does not require installed vanilla processing_) that depends on an installed jruby (_is slightly more experimental however since a modified PApplet is required with jdk9+ propane may take over in future_). Propane is currently only available for MacOS and linux, and without significant input from Windows users it will remain so.
+There are three main projects [JRubyArt][jruby_art], [PiCrate][picrate] and [propane][propane], [JRubyArt][jruby_art] is the closest to the original ruby-processing and provides a ruby wrapper around the latest [vanilla processing][processing], it depends on a vanilla processing install (but can be configured to not require a jruby install).
+
+[PiCrate][picrate] is a standalone version designed for the [RaspberryPI][rpi].
+
+[Propane][propane] is a configuration free, complete version of ruby-processing (_does not require installed vanilla processing_) that depends on an installed jruby (_is slightly more experimental however since a modified PApplet is required with jdk9+ propane may take over in future_). Propane is currently only available for MacOS and linux, and without significant input from Windows users it will remain so.
 
 Other projects include the pbox2d gem (a gem wrapper around [jbox2d][jbox2d]), toxiclibs gem (a gem wrapper around [toxiclibs][toxiclibs]) and geomerative gem (a gem wrapper around [geomerative][geomerative]).
 
 Not forgetting the atom editor projects [atom-k9][atom-k9] and [language-jruby-art][language]
 
 #### Martin Prout ####
 
- First degree was BSc hons Biochemistry from University of Surrey, I went on to specialize in xenobiotic metabolism (at first drugs, then industrial chemicals and pesticides).  I later studied for a computer science degree with the Open University (BSc hons 2:1 but completed insufficient specific modules to be a named degree), course included some smalltalk but mainly java. Subsequently I dabbled a bit with C++, perl python, and even lisp, but got hooked on ruby, particulary ruby-processing. OS experience Windows-98 up to Windows-XP and mainly linux since 2004 (tried gentoo, fedora, even pardus) now using exclusively Archlinux and Mint (Debian). Since November 2012 I have been sole developer/maintainer of [ruby-processing][ruby-processing] (_did update for processing-2.0_), and I have since developed JRubyArt and propane (_for processing-3.0+_) and ensured that jruby-9.0.0.0 (with support from jruby group) continued to work with ruby-processing, and its descendants.
+ First degree was BSc hons Biochemistry from University of Surrey, I went on to specialize in xenobiotic metabolism (at first drugs, then industrial chemicals and pesticides).  I later studied for a computer science degree with the Open University (BSc hons 2:1 but completed insufficient specific modules to be a named degree), course included some smalltalk but mainly java. Subsequently I dabbled a bit with C++, perl python, and even lisp, but got hooked on ruby, particulary ruby-processing. OS experience Windows-98 up to Windows-XP and mainly linux since 2004 (tried gentoo, fedora, even pardus) now using exclusively Archlinux and Mint (Debian). Since November 2012 I have been sole developer/maintainer of [ruby-processing][ruby-processing] (_did update for processing-2.0_), and I have since developed JRubyArt and propane (_for processing-3.0+_) and ensured that jruby-9.2.0.0 (with support from jruby group) continued to work with ruby-processing, and its descendants.
 
- NB: I'm not in the market for a job, and only get involved with projects that interest me, currently I'm learning javascript just to develop atom packages for JRubyArt / propane (but my heart is not in it, javascript is just horrible).
+ Personally I can't understand why processing group spawned p5*js (javascript is just horrible), but I learned sufficient to develop atom packages [atom-k9][atom-k9] and [language-jruby-art][language] for JRubyArt / propane.
 
 [jruby_art]: https://ruby-processing.github.io/JRubyArt/
 [blog]:http://monkstone.github.io/
@@ -29,3 +33,5 @@ Not forgetting the atom editor projects [atom-k9][atom-k9] and [language-jruby-a
 [language]:https://atom.io/packages/language-jruby-art
 [ruby-processing]:https://github.com/jashkenas/ruby-processing
 [bus]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
+[picrate]:https://ruby-processing.github.io/PiCrate/
+[rpi]:https://www.raspberrypi.org/