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Win a Raspberry Pi 4 in Celebration of Our 10th Birthday!

 

Hello Community members! As some of you know, we are celebrating the Community's 10th Birthday this year.  In our excitement, we thought a lot about what we wanted to do for our 10th birthday and came up with a variety of activities from the absolutely ridiculous (renting a bouncy castle, RasPi piñatas, partying on a private island) to the less ridiculous (team dinner and cake woowoo!) but once we found out our birthday would be coinciding with the release of the new Raspberry Pi 4, we knew we had to celebrate our birthday with Pi, not cake! (Please insert loud vuvuzela sounds here.)

 

As many of you have probably already seen over in the Raspberry Pi space, there's been a flurry of activity surrounding this latest release. Many retailers have either completely sold out or have all versions on back-order. Luckily, we managed to snag some of the elusive new Pi's in order to entice you all to help us continue celebrating our birthday through the summer by building some awesome projects.

 

So: what do you have to do to be in the running for one of the brand new Raspberry Pi 4's? Just follow the instructions below!

 

1. Register and/or log-in to the element14 Community

2. Leave a comment on this post telling us what you'd build with the new Pi 4 and its fun upgraded capabilities

 

After July 15th, we'll select up 20 members to receive a Pi!

 

 

Contest is now closed! Thanks so much to everyone who participated. We are in the process of reaching out to all our winners and will be shipping out your Pis the first week of August! Stay tuned for an update to this post where we will announce winners.

 

Want to be in the running for MORE cool stuff? For those of you who build said cool project(s) and post a blog along with photos and/or video in the Raspberry Pi space, tag your blog with HappyBirthdaye14 so we can all see your awesome work, appreciate it and continue the birthday celebrations by basking in the creativity of our Community members. If you do, we have some digital and/or physical "goodie bags" full of surprise swag and Newark/Farnell stuff we want to give away to you!

 

So, let us know in the comments below what fun projects you're looking forward to building and sharing!

 

And, if you haven't already checked out the plethora of posts surrounding the new Pi or the anniversary posts started by rscasny cstanton tariq.ahmad e14phil - check out the links below and participate. Some of them might even lead to more opportunities for cool stuff!

 

Happy 10th Anniversary! - A Decade of element14 Community

10 Year Challenge | Tell Us What You Can't Live Without for an ESP8266, Arduino Uno, or Arduino Nano!

In Honor of element14's 10th Birthday: What is Your Favorite RoadTest Bundle?

 

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Which accessories are compatible with the New Raspberry Pi 4 Model B?

Benchmarking the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Compliance

Raspberry Pi 4, 3 B+, Pi 3, Pi 2, B+, A+ Comparison Chart

Do You Know Your Pi from Pie? Raspberry Pi Quiz!

Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi 4 Computer

Eben Upton talks about the new Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Meet The New Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - element14 Presents

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - Technical Specifications

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Default GPIO Pinout with PoE Header

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  • I’ve not undertaken any PI development before but was thinking about trying one out to extend my interfacing and integration skills by building an extensible controller for the projects I am, and am intending to build.  I would expect features to grow over time but my first two would be:

    - a set of training signals for a new Oscilloscope to learn and investigate new features on that.

    - a data acquisition device, over wi-fi, for the power supply I’m building - an idea evolving from something Shabaz mentioned in a comment recently

    - a programmable controller for V2 of my power supply so I can drive output patterns for test purposes, remotely control it etc.  For example, and building on the first bullet above, maybe programming the power supply to drive a resistor/capacitor circuit so that the charge time can be measured with the Scope and then to ramp down the voltage so the discharge time can be measured.  Which could also extend the data acquisition feature by interfacing with the Scope.

     

    As I build more projects, it could extend - e.g. by programming test voltages/currents for a DC load.

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  • I’ve not undertaken any PI development before but was thinking about trying one out to extend my interfacing and integration skills by building an extensible controller for the projects I am, and am intending to build.  I would expect features to grow over time but my first two would be:

    - a set of training signals for a new Oscilloscope to learn and investigate new features on that.

    - a data acquisition device, over wi-fi, for the power supply I’m building - an idea evolving from something Shabaz mentioned in a comment recently

    - a programmable controller for V2 of my power supply so I can drive output patterns for test purposes, remotely control it etc.  For example, and building on the first bullet above, maybe programming the power supply to drive a resistor/capacitor circuit so that the charge time can be measured with the Scope and then to ramp down the voltage so the discharge time can be measured.  Which could also extend the data acquisition feature by interfacing with the Scope.

     

    As I build more projects, it could extend - e.g. by programming test voltages/currents for a DC load.

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