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Win A Raspberry Pi Football!

Stuartsjones

For absolutely no reason whatsoever image we are giving away 10 of these Raspberry PiRaspberry Pi footballs (or soccer balls for you Americans/Australians) to our community members!

 

It's easy to enter. Just POST A COMMENT below about which Raspberry Pi projects you are working on now, or that you have planned for this summer and we will pick the top ten most creative and interesting ones to win one of these footballs modelled below by element14's Iro. You need to be a registered member to comment (only takes a few seconds to do this).

 

The competition will remain open until 9am UK time on June 23rd and the winners will be notified by private message so prizes can be sent out.


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  • I am currently working on a wireless sensor network for my house, a raspberry pi is used as the base station, the network uses inexpensive nrf24l01+ wireless network boards.

     

    The sensor nodes are custom designed low power ATMega328P boards, which have a nrf24l01 daughter board, and DS18B20 temperature modules connected, the board can also support DHT22/11 humidity sensors and other I2C sensors. The boards run off 2 AA size batteries and sleep in very low power mode (about 60ua) for 4 minutes, waking up to report the sensor readings (including battery volts) back to the raspberrypi.

    The raspberry pi has a program running to listen for the reports from the sensor nodes, and formats the report into JSON and sends it up to a google app engine instance which is recording the sensor data in 10 minute intervals, this can then be graphed through the applications user interface on a web browser..

     

    Current setup has my RaspBMC raspberry pi with the receiver module, this is in the center of the house, 3 remote nodes, one in the lounge, and 1 in each bedroom reading temperature. A 4th node is outside reporting temperature and humidity. In my computer room is another raspberry pi running a python script reporting the temperature, humidity and barometric pressure directly to the appengine.

     

    Additional nodes will be placed in other common areas around the house.

     

    Each sensor node costs about $10nz to make, including the circuit board.

     

    As its winter time here, I am interested in if the added insulation we put in the roof of our house makes a difference overall.

  • Since getting a NFC tag implanted in my hand, my projects are starting to take a NFC focus.

     

    A Raspberry PI and Explore-NFC (plus a home-made motorised Eurocyclinder) should be perfect for a opening my front door.

     

    Also, my 2 year old son loves football and raspberries! A Raspberry Pi football wouldn't just sit by a geek's desk. It'd get a lot of use!

  • Wow!! That soccer ball looks cool.

     

    Right now I am making a rover (explorer robot) with a raspberry pi, the camera module and a wifi dongle.  You can see the image trought a web browser and also control the car motors and camera light in the same webpage. There is a short video of the robot working:

     

    Is not yet finished. I need to build one more PCB with a microcontroler and some voltage regulators and also improve the software. This board is going to safely shutdown the raspberry via SSH and disconect the power of the raspberry, the motors and the light. Also you can safely turn on/off the robot by pushing the red botton on the back. Aditionally the microcontroller will read the battery level and turn the robot off if the battery is low.

     

    Here are some photos of the electronics in the robot, you can see the 7.4v lipo battery, the built-in battery charger, the motors and the driver for the motor:

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    I hope finish this project in the summer.

     

    Greetings from Mexico! image

  • i'm working on several projects. i always have several on the go up about 75% finished but at the moment i'm working on using the raspi to emulate various retro peripheral for old 8bit home computers from the Uk such as disk drives etc. however for the football i think the perfect project would be to use it an a raspberry pi to build "goal line technology" to check for the ball crossing the goal line and maybe add a camera or two to check for offside while we are at it. Should be ready by 2018 world cup image

  • Working on controlling a Scalextric from a Raspberry Pi using Scratch.

    Planning to have it ready for the Brighton Mini Maker Faire to crowd source the fastest lap possible through the day

    Basics work. Need to finalise the wiring so it is safe for pubic area.
    Decide the track to be raced and prepare a less than optimal Scratch Sketch to get it started.