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Let's Get Portable!

lbittner

Pi in the Sun is our summer mission to bring you more Raspberry Pi Projects that can enhance your summer. To meet this goal, we need more portable Pi projects for you to take along on your summer plans.

 

To give you a great reason to help us, we're making 10 Raspberry Pi Starter KitsRaspberry Pi Starter Kits and 10 Battery Packs available to 10 yet to be determined lucky Community members who have existing projects that would be more summertime friendly if they were portable.

 

What you have to do:

  1. Add a comment to this blog that includes a link to your existing Raspberry Pi Project (either on the element14.com  community or anywhere on the world wide web)
  2. Tell us why your project would be better if it were portable.

 

HINTS:

  • We like photos and videos and details so special preference will be given to those entries that have detail and a compelling reason for going portable.
  • Think Pi projects that support activity. (Moving a joystick on your gaming console DOES NOT count as active.)

 

We’ll take submissions through midnight, Monday 7-July Central time.  Good luck!

 

BONUS: FREE RASPBERRY PI FOOTBALLS (Or soccer balls, depending on where you're from)

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If you have any questions, please let us know in our Feedback & Support area.

 

See full terms and conditions of this competition.

 

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  • I find this interesting. I've never seen so little turn out for a giveaway on Element14 before.

  • Here is my project: Zoltan Tamasi's Blog. My robot, presented in the provided blog it is partially portable, but not long enough. It has an external battery with 3500 mA what lasts around a half a day, but then I need it to charge it, so on the rest of the day I can't test my algorithms. It would be wonderful if I could program and test all day long, and charge the batteries during nighttime, this way, I could double my productivity time.  Just like I described in my posts, I would love to combine my current robot with that robotic arm so that I could make a more complex robot, but for this I will need way more power than I  have at my disposal right now, also I am thinking on using another Raspberry Pi just for the arm itself so both the battery pack and the starter kit pack it is more than welcome for me. Worst case scenario, I could always program the arm to pass the ball around.

     

    Thank you for the occasion,

    Zolti

  • Summer Days! Holidays, here I come! I promise myself this time round I am going to do it properly. I want to record all the memorable sights of my adventures during this summer holiday. I will need a really small waterproofed camera that can be strapped to, say my arm. It probably needs to take a photo at a regular interval. Maybe it also needs to record my GPS location so that I can geotag my photos. Makes it much easier to sort out the photo later. It will be awesome if there is a button which I can press to immediately take a geotagged photo and share it with my friends on Twitter! It will probably connect to the internet through the wifi hotspot on my phone. Of course with so much sun it will also be solar powered. If only such a device exists. I got it! I will build one. All I need now to start is Raspberry Pi. Fingers crossed... image

  • I don't have a project on the go, but being able to have a portable data logger made from the Pi would be great. Maybe a few meteorological parameters like temperature, humidity, UV index, etc... would be nice to have all in one unit that doesn't require an internet or cell phone connection.

  • I am currently buliding a photo frame with my raspberry pi. It will be displaying pics from my social networking accounts. It will be displaying my loved ones, my friends. I am procuring a tft lcd screen for the same. It would be great if this project goes portable as then i would not have to stick the photo frame right next to a electric socket always. Also it would be great to move it to the place where you want without any restrictions...