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

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gsimerlink — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:00:30 GMT

Thank you all for entering our first contest on the element 14 Community site and telling us what you would do with your Raspberry Pi! We have chosen one winner at random and that person is: Tom Maxwell! You all had a bunch of great ideas and we hope you will all create all types of amazing projects with the Raspberry Pi in the future!

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Former Member — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 00:20:06 GMT

Je désire un Rasp pour plusieurs petits projets avec un ami. Je n'en possède pas encore un alors nous allons débuter par de simple projet comme construire un petit pc pour jouer à Minecraft ou d'autre comme un drone ou une voiture commandé à distance par un mobile.

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dragonunderling — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:15:07 GMT

I would like to teach my kids how computers and electronics work in everyday life.

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tim12 — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:32:27 GMT

Hi, it's me again, I'm sorry I forgot to follow this post, so I just did so. Did I miss anything out? Thanks

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tim12 — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 03:42:33 GMT

(sweating... thinks "Where to start"... only 20 minutes until the competition ends)

Heh heh, what will I do with it... LOTS OF STUFF!! [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-b39031e2-9295-408a-9bde-87b2ae19af6f/contentimage_5F00_3.png:16:16]

I'll use it as a server for running my website and I'll look into using it as a "robot" to manufacture products.

P.S. ([mention:3864d148532543c88e81ed501820ccc5:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] Sorry I haven't been able to write up the thread, I have had no wifi in Canada for a long time and I have to review other patents before doing anything else, otherwise...Who knows?...)

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Former Member — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 22:52:49 GMT

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.

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Former Member — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 20:28:48 GMT

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.

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Former Member — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:26:38 GMT

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.

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Former Member — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:46:38 GMT

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.

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straytech — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:52:39 GMT

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)!

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dwinhold — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 01:50:10 GMT

I Want to be the first to create the Raspberry Pi B+ Beowulf Cluster.

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bad_boy_y — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 01:15:14 GMT

entertainment system for car with one little touch screen in front and two usb screen for kid in back

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Former Member — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:50:11 GMT

I learn how to make a Media console/pvr to use for my media needs!!!! [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-b39031e2-9295-408a-9bde-87b2ae19af6f/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16] as well as other cools uses I see on youtube and other site!!!

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gordonmx — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:23:31 GMT

With the additional USB ports, I would attach 2 external hard drives and mirror them to create a RAID 0 storage device

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Nate1616 — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:11:33 GMT

With all the news recently on mass shootings and myself being an avid outdoorsmen/hunter but also a technology freak I thought why not try to address the issue and not have a solution that takes guns away. I know this might not sit well with people but hey will still post it. What I would use the Raspberry Pi for is as a base station that would for say go in a school/public area. The Raspberry Pi will send out signals at a fixed distance. The weapons would have to be modified but would essentially have a small microcontroller that looks for the general signal and when detected would not allow the gun to come off safety which would stop the weapon from being fired. If the base station(Raspberry Pi) detected something it would send a response to local authorities. I think it should also be smart enough to detect who the weapon belongs to. Just and idea. Would like to hear others thoughts.

Nate