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

cstanton

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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  • I can't guarantee that I'll have time to participate, but here are a few projects that have been on my to-do wish-list for quite a while, that might involve a Raspberry Pi:

     

    1. RPi with a robot arm. My plan was to sort something like smarties using a camera and OpenCV. The consistent shapes and bright colours should help. And then for those really brilliant makers expand it to sort resistors. But basic robot arm control projects would be great to see.

    2. RPi to control a CNC ?  Probably has been done before, as I recall people using them to control 3D printers.

    3. RPi on wheels. I have a basic wheeled framework gathering dust. Even better would be to have it be useful - maybe something I can run along the edge of my roof to clean my gutters? Or make a bigger version to plow the snow out of my driveway.

    4. RPi for edge computing. Gather up data from various sources and make the results available on the Internet.

    5. RPi to replace cloud-based services. I've heard of people using them to host their own Git repositories. Can they be reliably used as backup controllers or network storage? (This would most likely require the use of attached external hard drives, as the SD cards seem to have much shorter lives).

     

    I'd be thrilled to see anyone doing such projects, as that will help me out a lot too!

     

    Cheers,

    -Nico

  • in reply to ntewinkel

    Wow most of what you have said are on my To-Do list too

     

    I just googled and could find some projects for the topics you had mentioned which can be referenced (but I have not tested these myself),

     

    1.  RPi Robot Arm - https://youtu.be/bL8fScdBOos

    2. RPi Control CNC - as you say 3D printers can be made out of it plus white board drawing robots - https://youtu.be/jYue-6A1xE4

    3 RPi to replace cloud services - when I search I come across something named Open Source Own cloud - https://www.techradar.com/how-to/computing/how-to-set-up-a-raspberry-pi-powered-cloud-service-1316017

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