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Raspberry Pi Design Contest I took a vintage voltmeter that I found at Uncommon Objects in Austin and modified it to make its voltage range more Pi-friendly. A utility class to handle calibration made this into a first-class display device. With a little help from our designers at work, we used it to create a meter registering the number of new lobbyists that register each week. Color My Desk is a publicly controllable string of lights illuminating my daily workspace. I was asked how hard it would be to create a charging station that would use our existing campus ID cards. I had a proof of concept working on an old dell P3 before long. Since my main goal was low price I was happy to try integrating a raspberry Pi. I extended the software to accept both swipe and prox cards using a Weigand style reader. Next is to use HDMI for some local advertising… “Chicago Faces” is a guerrilla art piece that photographs the faces of unsuspecting civilians using open source hardware and software.

e-Health Sensor Platform V2.0 for Arduino and Raspberry Pi [Biometric / Medical Applications] This information can be used to monitor in real time the state of a patient or to get sensitive data in order to be subsequently analysed for medical diagnosis. Biometric information gathered can be wirelessly sent using any of the 6 connectivity options available: Wi-Fi, 3G, GPRS, Bluetooth, 802.15.4 and ZigBee depending on the application. If real time image diagnosis is needed a camera can be attached to the 3G module in order to send photos and videos of the patient to a medical diagnosis center. Data can be sent to the Cloud in order to perform permanent storage or visualized in real time by sending the data directly to a laptop or Smartphone. iPhone and Android applications have been designed in order to easily see the patient's information. Pulse and Oxygen in Blood (SPO2) SPO2 sensor features Pulse oximetry a noninvasive method of indicating the arterial oxygen saturation of functional hemoglobin. Connecting the sensor Connect the module in the e-Health sensor platform. Initializing by

The $99 Khan Academy wireless server, using a Raspberry Pi At the Rigsum Research Lab we are always looking for ways to use technology for benefiting education in the local context. For example, one of the challenges facing schools in Bhutan is the lack of access to online resources such as Khan Academy. Khan Academy is a free educational website containing more than 4000 short, high-quality lectures covering topics ranging from math and the sciences to economics and the humanities. Access to Khan Academy empowers both students and teachers. Since most schools in Bhutan do not have access to the Internet, or the access is painfully slow, viewing online lectures is usually impossible. We recently built a $99 Khan Academy wireless (and wired) server. Imagine: For around Nu. 5000, any school, college, library or community centre in Bhutan can offer unlimited access to one of the world's top educational resources; no internet required. How we built it

Raspberry Pi: A Paradigm Shift for ICT4D? Here at the Centre for Development Informatics we’ve spent years avoiding a techno-centric approach to ICT4D. But . . . we are rather excited about Raspberry Pi. If you don’t already know it, Raspberry Pi is not a low-cost computer. Although credit card-sized, Pi is a fully-functioning computer. At those sorts of production scales, costs for Pi could be reduced to around the US$15-20 mark. In many ways, its key attributes are those of a mobile phone (not surprising since it runs with the same ARM chipset you’ll find in many mobiles): Very low cost puts it into the category of “semi-disposable” device, and a ready addition to many other innovations without breaking the bank.Its robustness and low maintenance requirements make it particularly suitable to harsh developing country environments.Its small size and portability make it suitable for applications that other computers can’t reach.It has very low power consumption, so can work more easily in electrical off-grid environrments.

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RPi Beginners Back to the Hub Getting Started: Buying Guide - for advice on buying the Raspberry Pi. SD Card Setup - for information on how to prepare the SD Card used to boot your Raspberry Pi. Basic Setup - for help with buying / selecting other hardware and setting it up. Beginners Guide - you are up and running, now what can you do? Advanced Setup - for more extensive information on setting up. Trouble Shooting - some things to check if things don't work as expected. There is some restructuring going on , we are sorry for the inconvenience. Any easy question to ask, but a very difficult one to answer! If you are looking for any information related to SD Cards and setup look here If you need to get a RPi, the see the Buying Guide. References needed (idea for new section Living Without RPi, which can guide users or link to info to users who haven't got RPis) Link to emulation builds or live linux cds setup for beginners (RacyPy2 for example) For more information about Linux see Wikipedia sudo raspi-config