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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)

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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

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Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Default GPIO Pinout with PoE Header

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  • dougw
    dougw over 7 years ago +9
    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…
  • fmilburn
    fmilburn over 7 years ago +9
    I am anxious to use the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B for exploring Artificial Intelligence at the edge. In my recent entry to the Picasso Design Challenge I used a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and OpenCV for facial recognition…
  • shabaz
    shabaz over 7 years ago +9
    More Pi 4 projects : ) It is great that the new Pi has such a substantial RAM improvement. I only have one Pi 4, and it's now in-use as an industrial controller, here: And a new LCD display project , which…
  • umx8
    umx8 over 7 years ago

    I would use it as a base for a new arcade cab, the existing cab is full of old PC hardware and honestly doesn't look that great. Currently have a Pi zero in a gutted NES but it's just not the same as a full standalone cabinet

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  • rtfmoz
    rtfmoz over 7 years ago

    My boy is 11. I have the challenge of providing him with a basic desktop and the 4GB RPi 4 perfectly fits this need. It gives him Internet access, Linux access, he is currently learning through Udemy, and project access. This little device is magic as it enables me to provide multiple avenues of education from learning electronics, programming and operating systems. One of the side benefits is it cannot run games..... until of course, he figures out how to set up an emulator. It's a perfect little learning machine, and with some effort, you can do almost anything from controlling devices to driving robotics, to building your own drone. It's an incredible learning tool and the 4GB as a desktop gives me a kid-safe computer solution. Just add screen, keyboard and mouse.

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  • therepairatrooper
    therepairatrooper over 7 years ago

    Having recently participated in the Picasso Design Challenge, the Raspberry 4 would be perfect to address the limitations that handcuffed my original design. The 4K video would give life like display that I just could not achieve with the video output of the PI 3.

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  • jelektro
    jelektro over 7 years ago

    I would like to use the Raspberry Pi 4 to build a device to control and monitoring of the home automation system.

    The Raspberry Pi will be used as a control center for managing the entire system.

    This device will be equipped with wired and radio interfaces for communication with sensors and actuators.

     

    The designed control system will consist of:

    - Raspberry Pi computer

    - RFM75 wireless transceiver working in the ISM 2.4GHz band

    - SN65HVD485E RS485 transceivers

    - a backup power module built on a high capacity battery

    Diagram of control center is shown in the figure:

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    Network of sensors and actuators

    Each of the distributed modules connected to the system will consist of a microcontroller, a transceiver and additional elements (sensors, relays).

    The modules will communicate with the control center via a wired or wireless connection.

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  • cpkidd
    cpkidd over 7 years ago

    This pi sounds amazing! I'd use it in several different ways! First working in holiday light displays controlling light pixels matrix, televisions splitting images to the running the entire show. Second I would use the pi 4 to build a retro arcade unit .The possibilities are endless for this powerful unit .I love that the ram has increased and can do so much.

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  • barnmaster98
    barnmaster98 over 7 years ago

    So many possibilities of this little machine... currently running 3 raspberry pi 3b's... would try kodi and see if it could run my dvd rips perfect. Also would make a great computer for the office where I torrent and browse the internet. Also would have to try it with retropi and see how well it runs n64 games. But the other project that I've never tried yet is to build a plex server to hold all my movies instead of streaming my files from my rpi3 to my rpi2 for the bedroom kodi

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  • daluna13
    daluna13 over 7 years ago

    There are a couple of things I would love to do with any model of the Raspberry Pi but one thing I would do with the Pi 4 is using the is make a Mini PC I could Use to livestream on. With it now the 4 Gigs of RAM it does the Pi is Plenty powerful enough to Stream on Twitch or YouTube. All the while using a Elgato to connect ether my PS4 or a future PC Down the line and not hinder the performance of ether to Stream on the Units. Of Course the other main thing I could do is using another SD Card is Make a N64 RetroPi cause it is sadly not looking like Nintendo will make a N64 Classic so why not make one for myself.

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    aswinvenu over 7 years ago

    Neural Networks and Machine Learning is a trending topic in Industry now. A  lot of improvements on the training the models happened in the last couple of years. Now the trend is moving towards better inference engines on the edge ( Portable and easily deployable ). With a better processor and more RAM raspberry pi has a good future here.

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  • norbi
    norbi over 7 years ago

    Hello

    I started building a smart home system in our house. Currently, an old laptop runs the Domoticz smart home server. I would like to reduce the power consumption, the size, and a Rapsberry Pi 4 would be the best solution for this.

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  • macinblack18
    macinblack18 over 7 years ago

    Hello everyone, some years ago I developed a Portable Emergency push button based in other instructable projects. My project was a device with a push button that sends an SMS asking for help to my phone with GPS coordinates, for my mom when she needed help because she was very sick. With new raspberry Pi maybe I can add some nice features to this project image There's no limit for imagination. I can improve this project with Wi-fi (to connect internet) and Bluetooth ( to connect to a smartphone) connections and add a little display to show info messages, thanks to new raspberry pi 4. image

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    If you want to develop a better version of this project to help people, please look:

    https://www.instructables.com/id/Portable-emergency-button-with-localization-linkit/

     

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