Win a Raspberry Pi B+ & Clear Case from MCM Electronics (North America Only)

I'm starting my college capstone this year and for that project I'll be finishing programming a Game Boy Advanced emulator. With a Raspberry pi I'd be able to make it into an actual handheld system in order to fully show it off! Better yet, with the all of the new USB ports that the B+ model has, I may be able to get the Game Boy Advanced link cable feature to work through USB! I could then buy a second Raspberry Pi and load my emulator on it, allowing communication between the two systems in the similar way a GBA would work.

My father owns a greenhouse operation.  I used an old Microcontroller with one wire temp. sensors so he can keep track of his temperature in each of his greenhouses as he is getting older it is harder for him to wake up and go back to the greenhouses to check the temperature unless they are running cold in the winter or hot in the summer.  I would like to build a portable sensor box that he could move around from greenhouse to greenhouse that will allow him to watch temperature, moisture, monitor sound and have a built in camera.  This is the project that I would work on if I won this.  Thanks for the contest.

I've heard a lot about this through Ben Heck's show, and I just want to see what it's about.  I've wanted to get into programming for a long time, and this seems like an affordable step in the right direction.

Which gets hotter inside-a white car or a black car?  My 8th grade students asked that question when they heard on the news about a child dying in a locked car. "How would you figure that out," I asked?  They send just put a thermometer inside a black car and a white car.  Not bad, but I think we can do better.  If I had a Raspberry Pi B+, I would help my students understand programming and test this experiment in a real world environment.  We will have the shop kids build 6 sheet metal cubes measuring 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm.  We will leave two unpainted.  One of these will have a brushed metal finish and the other will polish to give it a bright finish. The other 4 will be painted flat black, glossy black, flat white, and glossy white.  We attach temp sensors to 5 walls of each cube.  We will suspend a 6th sensor in the middle of each cube.  The sixth side of the cube will be the bottom and made from circuit board material.  Each cube will have A/D converters on it and an I2C interface.  We will attache the six cubes to the Raspberri Pi to create a data collection system.  In addition we will use 2m ham radio and APRS to collect the data and send it to the APRS system.  We will place the entire system on a pole out in the school yard.  We will then collect the data from the Internet and use it within an Excel spreadsheet to analyse the data.  Some of the things we will want to analyze is the heating of each surface as the sun transitions across the sky.  The rate of temp increase and cool down in the center of each cube.  The relative max and min temperatures inside the cubes based on the outside finish and color.

Lower Power Consumption!

The new B+ will be perfect to run a portable (battery powered) version of my "EVP" (Electronic Voice Phenomena) generation tool-chain, used to theoretically communicate with the dead, by generating voice from stray electromagnetic signals.

Sensor -> Python -> Festival (text to speech synthesis) -> SOX (Audio filtering)!