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What should we run as the next 'Design Challenge Competition' ? Give us your suggestions!

cstanton
cstanton over 7 years ago

Hey everyone,

 

What should we run as the next Design Challenge using Raspberry Pi?

 

There have been a number of these competitions over the years, ideally resulting in a prototype that could go to production - though some are, frankly, just for fun at demonstrating the products that we sell. Still, we want something that invites you to create something either with products you have or products we give you to make a project that ideally makes a difference.

 

We're looking for Raspberry Pi Design Challenge ideas this time. We've had a few of these in the past:

 

Pi Chef Design Challenge

Bluetooth Unleashed Design Challenge

Pi IoT

Sci Fi Your Pi

Forget Me Not Design Challenge

Rocking Raspberry Pi

Pi NoIR and Catch Santa Challenge

 

After some suggestions have been made we may have a poll to choose the one we go with image and you'll probably get a badge for helping out image

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  • bwelsby
    bwelsby over 7 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    There's loads of info and links to examples on the RPi forum under the Bare Metal section https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=72260

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 7 years ago in reply to bwelsby

    I had a try too, on a BB, with a metal example from TI. I found anything beyond basic (read: beyond running the provided example image ) difficult.

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  • bwelsby
    bwelsby over 7 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    I have had a tinker just for the fun of it and It's not as difficult as many would think but I suppose that depends upon the application.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 7 years ago in reply to michaelwylie

    michaelwylie  wrote:

     

    Bare metal Raspberry Pi applications?

    Olala, that's a difficult one - for the powerplayers. Is the datasheet of the processor available without NDA?

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  • michaelwylie
    michaelwylie over 7 years ago

    Bare metal Raspberry Pi applications?

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  • ntewinkel
    ntewinkel over 7 years ago in reply to 14rhb

    Sounds perfectly safe to me.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 7 years ago in reply to crisdeodates

    This thread is going to serve enough Rpi design challenges for the near future. Great ideas !

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  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 7 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

    image thanks Nico,

     

    My idea probably needs a big Element14 health and safety caveat along the lines of 'no responsibility is accepted for injury during the challenge or from those attempting to replicate any challenge idea....'

     

    Especially as I was wondering if the RPi could adjust the angles to feed an axe head into a bench grinder to get the perfect edge. What could possibly go wrong ?

     

    Rod

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  • crisdeodates
    crisdeodates over 7 years ago in reply to jissdeodates

    cstanton, I do support the idea of jissdeodates. This idea is really cool as its a broader topic and participants can choose their specific area giving flexibility to the challenge. Hoping to use Raspberry Pi again in one of these cool challenges. image

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  • jissdeodates
    jissdeodates over 7 years ago

    Woww.... these are all very great ideas... Adding to the pool list, I would like to suggest a Design challenge topic where Raspberry Pi can be used as a security device. When I refer to security, it is general and can involve Home security, industrial security, device security, automobile security etc. So this will be challenging as well as allows us to think beyond the box to make the best security application using a raspberry pi.

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