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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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  • Build a Raspberry Pi based RTL-SDR receiver. I have the dongle but would like the horsepower of the Pi 4.

     

    Sean

  • I get fed up with websites and apps that serve me up advertisements that I have not asked to see, and which then try and track my online activities. I have installed ad-blockers on several of my devices, but these are detectable by advertisers, need to be installed on each device separately and generally slow down the devices.

     

    I would use the Raspberry Pi 4 to run Pi-Hole on my home network, running 24/7 off my PoE router as a dedicated DNS-based ad-blocker. This will block ads on all devices and from all applications not just websites without having to install anything on the device.

     

    The Raspberry Pi 4's gigabit ethernet speeds would make it a great device for running Pi-Hole and, running headless off PoE, I would hardly know it was there doing its stuff in the background.

  • I think that I'd like to try using it as a development system for my microcontroller projects.  I currently primarily use a WIndows desktop computer with dual monitors or a laptop if I want to use Linux.  I'd like to build a dual monitor system with a SS drive plus an external USB3 drive.  If the Pi4 is capable enough, this would make a great compact system.

  • Been waiting for an upgrade so that my Voice recognition  and OpenCV would run faster and would work efficiently maybe 98%! If this works stage 2 would be attaching it to a robot to monitor my dad( facial recognition) ensuring he takes his medicine, hack into his fitbit to monitor his heart rate( bypass patient). Sending alert when necessary.

  • in reply to Fred27

    Sliding door would be a great idea - I'd considered having a delorean style with dry ice but it's a bit above my skill level!

    If you're interested, the LTM have a few of the buttons on their website curently (along with some other interesting bits) : https://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/vintage-shop/railwayana#show=13

    They can go quite quickly so it's worth setting up a notification if they're out of stock.

  • in reply to xzanfr

    I like the sound of that tube door button. Extra points if you can get the shed door to slide open.

  • Spectrum analyzer using a SDR dongle and display

  • I've recently acquired a door opening button from a London tube train, so I'm planning on incorporating it in to a "smart shed" using a new pi4.

    The idea is to have an NFC reader to activate the button, then the button to operate a mechanism to open the shed door.

    In addition I want to modify my current infra red camera setup so that it either acts as an internal security camera or monitors the wildlife outside (not sure which yet!).

    Finally I'd like to add in the google assistant to use when in the shed and automate lighting and security somehow.

     

    Currently I've got the NFC working on a pi zero, the IR camera has been successful for several years on zero's and old pi's using my own pcb, and google assistant worked previously on a pi3 and I'd like to unify as much as possible on a single pi4 when my shed arrives.

  • I'd like to use Docker on the Pi 4 to benchmark it against the same container running .NET Core code on a Windows PC, a Linux PC, Microsoft Azure, a Pi 3 and a Pi 4. (I've got a Pi 1 to try it with too, but I'm not sure that will work.)

     

    Docker is a great way to ensure a complete application and the environment required to support it can run without worrying too much about exactly what it's running on. The fact that it's possible to run this code unmodified in all these environments is impressive enough, but it would be good to see how the performance compares. The killer question could be the performance per $. What's the best bang for your buck? Windows, Linux, Pi or cloud?