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picolab in your own computer
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:06 pm
by pan
picolab is the piconet in the backend with the jupyter lab on the front end. this tar.gz is provided by the dept it support to the teaching team in 2020, and has been updated by one student in my research lab to work properly with the latest macos and docker, as well as the apple silicon (m1/2)-based mac. try at your own risk 
this is only for macos now and has been tested on one student's m1-based macbook air in lab b04. we will try to see whether someone can roll out for windows too
make sure you have installed multipass. download the tar.gz, tar -zxvf into a directory, get into the directory, and say ./picolabvm. it will first pull ubuntu 18.04 for your multipass vm, and then install piconet docker together with jupyterlab, setup piconet (i.e., h1, h2 and r), and finally launch a chrome window in your mac
please make sure you also attend your lab section in person. nothing running in your own computer can replace a capable lab instructor in ecs366 during lab hours
Re: picolab in your own computer
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:33 pm
by pan
browser-based user interface

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Re: picolab in your own computer
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:01 am
by pan
if you already have a ubuntu physical or virtual machine (vm), you can use the picolab-docker.tar.gz directly to build the piconet docker inside your ubuntu as well
Re: picolab in your own computer
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 4:33 pm
by pan
pan wrote:picolab is the piconet in the backend with the jupyter lab on the front end. this tar.gz is provided by the dept it support to the teaching team in 2020, and has been updated by one student in my research lab to work properly with the latest macos and docker, as well as the apple silicon (m1/2)-based mac. try at your own risk 
this is only for macos now and has been tested on one student's m1-based macbook air in lab b04. we will try to see whether someone can roll out for windows too
make sure you have installed multipass. download the tar.gz, tar -zxvf into a directory, get into the directory, and say ./picolabvm. it will first pull ubuntu 18.04 for your multipass vm, and then install piconet docker together with jupyterlab, setup piconet (i.e., h1, h2 and r), and finally launch a chrome window in your mac
please make sure you also attend your lab section in person. nothing running in your own computer can replace a capable lab instructor in ecs366 during lab hours
also in macos
so just make sure to run ./picolabvm in ~/Downloads/picolab-vm in a terminal window, not click the script in Finder to set up the environment properly
Re: picolab in your own computer
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2023 4:36 pm
by pan
pan wrote:if you already have a ubuntu physical or virtual machine (vm), you can use the picolab-docker.tar.gz directly to build the piconet docker inside your ubuntu as well
jinwei (clark) has created a docker image available at https://hub.docker.com/r/clarkzjw/picolab