In March 2012, 32-year-old chip designer, Eben Upton, officially launched the world's smallest desktop Raspberry Pi (Raspberry). The credit card size Raspberry is equipped with a 700MHz ARM processor, 256MB memory, with the SD card as a storage medium, provides two USB interfaces, HDMI output, and 10/100 adaptive Ethernet ports.
Eben believes that although this thing can reduce the cost of desktop, it can only sell 10,000 copies. However, it is surprising that the small raspberry sent has sold more than 1 million units.
Someone took it with a Kindle write code, making a pair of bean flap music players with display, becoming a smart control center of home appliances, or taking directly to the mining machine for Bitcoin. Al or, use 64 Raspberry Pisted to make an inexpensive supercomputer.
Similar to the Raspberry Pistatic also has a gamili development board. However, on the CES in January 2014, Intel CEO Bryanich showed the EDISON - an SD card size Pentium-grade computer. The principle is similar to the tree plum, but the advantage of body type, Edison can insert the baby's diapers to remind mothers to change the diaper, burning in the porcelain bottle, or can also be a crystal smart speaker?
Open source hardware gives the world unlimited possibilities, but it is not unreserved. If you feel that Silicon Valley is too far, you can also look at the creativity made in 48 hours in the 48-hour creative.
Smart bookshelf Plato: Digital management reading habits, Confucius can also give Plato point
"Touching the physical book, just like the skin of touching knowledge." One of the members of the smart bookshelf Plato team said.
The team of the Plato smart bookshelves consists of two interaction designers, two hardware engineers and a market. They are all physical book enthusiasts, and digital books can be more and more lacking today.
What happened to the entity?
Content data is difficult to manage, reading habits are difficult to manage ... All - entity books and 21st centuries are too "difficult".
Plato Smart Books The most basic equipment is an infrared scanner, Sensor and LED. Through the infrared scanner scan code, the client will automatically download book information from Douban. At this time, the LEDs on the bookshelf will illuminate, remind you of the "technology" books should be placed in this part of the bookshelf, and automatically record its location. Sensor in the bookshelf will feel the entry and exit of books on the bookshelf and registered on the app.
The core of the Plato smart books is the app. The Plato helps users help users with their own reading habits through tag users' reading habits and reading of users. At the same time, social functions are also supported. Which book PO likes to go out, everyone will discuss.
On the test interface of Plato, the user "Confucius" also gave "Plato".
The Plato team wants to use this way to not only make readers better manage reading habits, but also allow books to flow. People can complete the borrowing of books through social way by labeling their own books and whether they have borrowed.
Personal resources flow, society can also become a library.
Flying Shark: Helping you to stay with you
At the event site, the most pull-out is this only flying shark, winning the cute baby in the scene. Through three colors with a dark blue shark hydrogen balloon, plus a gimoli development version, it has become a remote conference collaborative tool.
"Technology should be fun, fashion!" The flying shark team interprets their ideas.
Used in a safe helium in the balloon of the flying shark, a balloon can float 74g weight. The automatic avoidance, automatic cruise function can be achieved by the program flying shark, and the current party encounters an obstacle. The system will automatically discriminate to the left or right. Due to its own characteristics, the flying shark can achieve free hanging, "very energyful". The team also developed a mobile operating system, which can control its travel direction with a mobile phone. Connect a camera, the flying shark can turn into a remote monitoring system, or provide more vision on the manipulator when the remote is meeting.
The colorful flying shark in the office, seems to have a good decoration.
Intelligent potted plants: stealing vegetable mode off
I want to know what plants are thinking, how are they doing? Temperature, humidity, light sensor plus the development board, the intelligent pot team re-processes the data received in real time in real time, real-time living state.
The team has developed a web user interface, showing the temperature, humidity, lighting of plants in real time, and remotely view the growth of potted plants in home. "Lounge mode" set by irresponsible owners, one-button is watering according to the current situation of plants.
The accumulation of data will produce more effects, such as by analyzing users' growth and environmental information, "Garden Plants" will recommend plants that are planted in the current environment.
Or intelligent potted plants can also play social functions. Through the client to see the status of the potted plants in the garden, the humidity is too low? Help him a one-button watering can also earn points, introducing the intelligent potted plant after social system, can also play the real version "stealing game".
The team indicates that intelligent potted can also be added to other sensors, such as PM 2.5 air quality modules, and true visual observation of green plants to individual life.
A total of 48 hours of non-stop, a total of more than 30 projects, as well as a smart backpack showing current air PM2.5, don't worry about the winter "cold ice" mask heater, or can follow your action to regulate music BMP smart yoga mat, etc.
In the energy of the game, it seems to have unlimited possibilities.
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