Raspberry RoadTest

Okay i am a kid before Christmas, Easter and my Birthday and have eaten all my Halloween candy!!!!!!!

I want to make up an amateur radio repeater controller that is full featured and eventually make it into an IRLP node.

That's easy.

The device: connect a laser to the raspi's controller pins and write a little program to control the laser.  Add two electrodes to the controller pins also controlled by the little program.  The electrodes should contain a small circuit that produces a pulse of electricity when activated.  Connect a 3G wireless dongle connected to a long flexible antenna with a pingpong ball attached to the end.  Add a small low power camera.  Encase the device with lithium battery pack into a waterproof container.

The application: tranquilize a shark and strap the device to its back and glue the electrodes on just in front of the gills, one on each side.  Submerge the shark into the ocean (or a local channel) and float the extended antenna to the surface.  Connect to the Raspberry Pi with a remote computer and activate the camera to get a shark's eye view and it's all set.  Wait for the shark to wake up.

I would now have a remote controlled shark with a freaking laser!  Yeeeaaah!

I would like to get this brilliant piece of engineering because i would use it for a fully prepared touch screen, wifi, bluetooth, gps equipped in car media and online center. that would be awsome!

I would like to give it to my daughter, and help her let her imagination loose on it. Then help her learn the programming tools that she will need to give those ideas a go.

I want to build a very tough case for it and a portable battery power pack, so I can make my presentations anywhere without carrying my laptop with me.

And my other idea is to use it as a lan connection platform via usb wireless adapter to power our lan parties with my friends.

And there is another ideo of mine but it will ofcourse take so much time to put a test on like this;

I'm a mechanical engineering student, but I'm very interested in robotics. So my team at school decided to make a UAV as a project. Because I have alot of know-how about aerospace industry and group projects. For now I'm the captain of this one

When it comes to what we can do with this little amazing device, I must say you are limited with only your imagination. Because we saw all of these applications and robots done by aurdino which has almost no processing power due to raspberry. We can process data and information by raspberry pi so quickly that desicion making in robotics become more agile.

I have some using space in my project for Rasp Pi too. Firstly we need a very advanced autopilot system which always monitors almost 30 flight parameter so many times a second. So that after we take off by the plane, it will take the control itself and make it's misson by its own. Some of these datas are; altitude, radar altitude, GPS position, artificial horizon position, flight speed, true air speed etc etc. And it has to make calculations due to the dynamics of our own design aircraft (by observing possible turning circles, maximum blank angle etc.) so that this autopilot can go to the misson area and make it's duty.

And by Rasp Pi we can not only do autopilot but also we can make some image processing and tracking applications to control the camera turret to keep track of the targets.

And one last thing, it can also do some cription to secure data from airplane to ground service.

So if we look as a whole package, we can easiliy see that with these devices we can really have good processing power with low power and cost. Which are wery important in a plane. And they are so light than the PLC that we "were" planning to use.

one of my plans is to install the RPI into an old BBC B case I have, running a beeb emulator...

converting the keyboard to work as a usb device is going to be the biggest problem.

I'm planning on turning it into a cheap Webserver and set top media server with a custom encloser.

i want one!!!

I want to see how Arch Linux fares in such a low power environment, I'd also be interested in building and maintaining Arch Linux ARM packages for compatible software that hasn't yet been ported, which may require me to become a little proficient in programming to achieve. Of course, the Pi would be a great platform to learn programming languages on.

Well we are looking forward to driving with Raspberry PI in our Solar cars www.solarcarwales.co.uk

we just hope we can control our array voltage with them you know what it can be like when you blow a Raspberry a car :-) 

I competitively fly freeflight model airplanes as a hobby.  To be successful, one needs to detect and launch the model airplane into a thermal (warm rising air).  I would like to use the Raspberry Pi to develop a wireless weather station.  It would need to collect wind speed and air temperature from sensors, and display the data in real-time on a display.  It would need to be battery or solar powered.

A daft punk style video helmet would be awesome too.

Im going to put my Raspberry Pi in a hollowed out Original GameBoy. put a 2.6 inch touch screen in and wire the buttons up so they can be used. im going to put an emulator on it  so it can be a GameBoy. i have the 2 gameboy backup batterys so i can power it. im going to use diffrent game cartridges take out the circut and put an SD card reader in. wire the GameBoy cartridge port to the RPi's SD card reader.

I taught my kids ho to program with the old Sinclair ZX8.  Now will teach my grandkids with the Raspberry PI!

I want to try to play with distributed databases and webservers. This little guy is gonna be my gatekeeper, whilst my other servers are going in the back. Also gonna try the XBMC-distro on it, of course

I'd like to use a raspberry pi for a mame arcade cabinet. Paired with an iPac, you could make a very thin arcade cabinet; just big enough to be stable. HDTV, real arcade controls, etc.

i'd unpack it and boot it up, then i would have a look at aall the different functions etc and write a review on it. then i would try to learn some code from it and start making software for example games and programmers for pc.

Great piece of software for web controlled pool (and home) automation.

My arduino runs out of space (32k limit)... Time to retire.

I've got a Pi on order. If selected I'll donate this Pi to my local Scout Group for use with the IT Activity Badge.