Freescale and Bluetechnix competition

Hi Firat,

As a fellow amature astronomer, I would be interested in following your design/progress if you win.  I am working on a similar project for lightning photography.

Thanks

DAB

Hi DAB,

Thank you very much. Astronomy is one of the things that i have much liked to deal with. However, i have been far of it since for a long time. With the help of this kind of project, i may return to interest of it again. Lightning photography ? Wow! It is a great job that can be done. One needs to be patient to take such kind of pictures of those great natural events. I would like to view the pictures you have taken so far, if it is possible. Please post your project here so that i can be able to vote for it.

Best regards,

Firat Kocak

If I win, I would like to build Low-cost Contactless payment terminal running linux OS  using the SBC-I.MX51SBC-I.MX51 board interfaced to Touchscreen with GUI(Graphical user interface) of cash register connected through ethernet with a transaction host is linked to bank account. The SBC-I.MX51SBC-I.MX51 will also be connected through USB with an NFC (Near field communication) reader to be able to make contactless payment.

Best regards,,

Lahcen Ghourabi

Hi All,

This board would be perfect to start the development of a language studio equipment. My goal is to replace the more than 20 years old one in the school of my doughters. My ideai is a linux based system supporting audio and video materials to be streamed from the teacher's desk to about 20 student nodes. The students nodes are equipped with touch sensitive monitors so not only listening is supported. Interactive excersizes, tests, could be made. Materials prepared in advance could be used in the afternoon individually and later supervised by the teacher. The strong graphical capabilities of the I.MX platform makes it ideal for this task

Best regards,

Laszlo

Thanks for the ideas, still looking for more, and  time to enter if you haven't yet

If I were to be the winner, I would replace my wife's old, dying computer.  Turn her workstation power consumption from 300W+ to less than 50W.  Saving the environment on shmuck at a time!

In times of great peril and uncertainty a hero must arise. Through years of arduous mental and physical conditioning I have honed my body to a razor's edge, and I am prepared to combat crime and injustice wherever it may appear.

I have spent months developing a stealthy, nimble flying machine, within which I will patrol the skies over my fair hometown, defending her citizens against the the predators who lurk in her shadows. Only one thing is missing to make my patrolcraft skyworthy: a Bluetechnix SBC-iMX51 board to drive the glass cockpit.

The audio input will allow me to triangulate upon the innocents as they cry for help. The camera input will provide multi-spectrum image capabilities, allowing me to search the shadows for ne'er-do-wells lying in ambush. The GPU support will give me real time rendering of three dimensional terrain and building information culled from Google Earth and USGS survey data, all of which can be compressed down to fit in the ample 2GB on-board flash memory. The SD card slot will allow me to take my trusty artificially intelligent operational sidekick (AIOS) with me from my headquarters into the patrol craft, and the iMX.51 processor will allow her to respond to my inquiries with lightning speed.

Either that, or maybe some kind of video game. I don't know yet.

Mike

Since it has low power consumption, lots of I/O and is fairly powerful, I would see if I could make an interesting environmental monitor. Since it should be well suited to being remotely situated, connected to various sensors and whilst capable of locally processing data and/or serving content.

Rather than things such as temperature and wind speed etc, I'd be more concerned with measurements such as the earth's magnetic field and radiation levels. The latter is particularly topical for obvious reasons, and the former since it's been predicted that we are entering a period of increased geomagnetic activity. So, ideally I'd like to try and construct a proton precession magnetometer, although this may turn out to be quite a challenge. However, measuring background radiation would be simpler and there are perhaps simpler instruments for measuring the earth's magnetic field to a lower resolution.

Some more great entries. Thanks guys. Michael, this wouldn't be you would it?

Hi all

the description of my proposed project for SBC-iMX51 board

SchoolBook is an embedded tablet device designed for replacing books taken to schools. It will have an user interface that will give a look and feel of real books. SchoolBook will be running on MeeGo
Main Features:

• Form Factor of a conventional notebook
• Touch pen interface(wacom penabled or similar technology) for taking notes, drawing and navigating
• Notes to be stores in users' handwriting, for getting a personal touch
• Tags to indicate topic of each note
  • Sorting and searching notes based on tags
• Networking with other SchoolBooks through WiFi/bluetooth
  • Sharing of notes with other SchoolBooks
• Notes stored in SchoolBook can be accessed from PC through USB Device interface
• Projector interface for conducting presentations
• Support of popular document and image formats – PDF, word, jpeg, etc
• Support of Course Management Systems like moodle, for teachers to maintain their notes & conducting examinations/class tests,etc
• Record and play back of class room sessions

with regards & prayers

najath