Raspberry Pi challenge - winners announced
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element14 has announced the three winners of its global Raspberry Road Test challenge.
Each winner will receive a credit card sized Raspberry Pi computer, that launches today ('Pi Day').
The challenge, launched last week, invited the public to submit an answer to the question, "What innovation will you create using the amazing Raspberry Pi computer?". Peter Fenech, 'Gizmo B73' and Jodi Curtis were selected from the entries.
"This is absolutely incredible and I feel so lucky to own such a sought after device, thanks to element14's Road Test challenge," said Peter Fenech. "I can empathise with the huge demand for the Raspberry Pi as this is truly an innovation that is one of the most exciting electronic/embedded computing products to be launched for decades."
The winners' responses to the competition question were as follows:
Fenech: "Being quite new to the world of electronics and coding I enrolled in this RoadTest to be able to fully test the purpose of the Raspberry Pi, which is to see how young students cope with the technology and how much they can understand the amazement of working with hardware that can be coded for many different needs, such as a music player or even a small pc that can run Linux."
'Gizmo B73': "I have many project ideas that I would like to try with the Raspberry Pi, however my most adventurous is probably an autonomous roving robot. I have an existing tracked base that I will use and combine this with an Arduino Mega connected to a motor driver and other sensors for interaction with the environment. I will use the GPIO on the computer to interact with the Arduino, and then use OpenCV with webcams to implement Computer Vision using the Raspberry Pi and then use a USB WiFi dongle too so that I can monitor the Raspberry Pi as it roves around."
Curtis: "I was thinking of programming a low to mid frequency signal generator, 5V power source and oscilloscope, with an add on D/A for classrooms."
The Raspberry Pi units that have been given away as prizes for the challenge are pre-production and are not part of the consumer allocation units from element14.
