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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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  • Pi4 - The Window on the World

    When they designed the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, they read my mind about what new features I would like to see in a Raspberry Pi. The reason I had this feature list in my mind was I wanted to build a full desktop computer to learn Linux with and then explore setting it up for useful workflows and applications. The location for this computer would be in my basement workshop, which is where I build electronics and do video blogging. I am not looking to replace my high-end PC (located upstairs) which I use for CAD and video editing and I'm not looking to create a powerful gaming machine, I just need to use it for workshop tasks like  Libre Office, email, browsing electronics data, maybe watch some YouTube, display schematics and PCB layouts, use a paint program and maybe some arduino programming. I would hook it up to a fairly large 4K TV which would allow the system to give the basement a little more atmosphere when it wasn't busy displaying data. This would be done by displaying beautiful UHD panoramic scenes from around the world as if that was the scene just outside - the Window on the World. (a bit like what did with his project)

    I see this computer as a low-cost, light-weight workhorse connected to a huge display that runs a lot of hours doing lots of useful things that aren't a good fit for a big power-hungry PC. I do a lot of electronics projects and I expect as I become more familiar with these new Raspberry Pi's, I will start using them in more projects.

    This computer would no doubt be featured in several blogs as I work it into various workflows. Initially to maximize its life I would pay close attention to packaging, particularly thermal performance. The packaging and thermal setup would likely be the subject of a blog all by itself.

    I am very keen to explore how to make Raspbian useful for many of my hobby activities and it is very exciting to see that the new Raspberry Pi has the capability to handle a very useful complement of the tasks I have in mind.

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  • Pi4 - The Window on the World

    When they designed the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, they read my mind about what new features I would like to see in a Raspberry Pi. The reason I had this feature list in my mind was I wanted to build a full desktop computer to learn Linux with and then explore setting it up for useful workflows and applications. The location for this computer would be in my basement workshop, which is where I build electronics and do video blogging. I am not looking to replace my high-end PC (located upstairs) which I use for CAD and video editing and I'm not looking to create a powerful gaming machine, I just need to use it for workshop tasks like  Libre Office, email, browsing electronics data, maybe watch some YouTube, display schematics and PCB layouts, use a paint program and maybe some arduino programming. I would hook it up to a fairly large 4K TV which would allow the system to give the basement a little more atmosphere when it wasn't busy displaying data. This would be done by displaying beautiful UHD panoramic scenes from around the world as if that was the scene just outside - the Window on the World. (a bit like what did with his project)

    I see this computer as a low-cost, light-weight workhorse connected to a huge display that runs a lot of hours doing lots of useful things that aren't a good fit for a big power-hungry PC. I do a lot of electronics projects and I expect as I become more familiar with these new Raspberry Pi's, I will start using them in more projects.

    This computer would no doubt be featured in several blogs as I work it into various workflows. Initially to maximize its life I would pay close attention to packaging, particularly thermal performance. The packaging and thermal setup would likely be the subject of a blog all by itself.

    I am very keen to explore how to make Raspbian useful for many of my hobby activities and it is very exciting to see that the new Raspberry Pi has the capability to handle a very useful complement of the tasks I have in mind.

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