The time has cometh to decide who will get their hands on the first boards. We will use a competition! To enter, submit a comment to this post on what cool applications you will use the board for. Your comment must be no more than 30 words! Videos would also be fantastic! The best, most creative comment/video will win a free board plus free shipping to any country in the world! The other 3 runner ups will receive a chance to purchase one of the remaining 3 boards. Good Luck! (:
Please Note: The first 4 boards we’re making available should be considered as beta! Due to slight modifications to the board such as the inclusion of ICS 4, booting off the Micro SD card is no longer functional resulting in boot hangs. Please do not despair, both Arch Linux ARM and us are confident that this problem can be rectified in the near future!
Update: Competition closes end of next Sunday. Winners will be announced on Monday!
I absolutely need it to create an army of giant evil robots and conquer the entire world, the power of the raspberry isn’t enough!
I’d use the board to create a quadcopter with a GoPro camera pan/tilt mount with auto tracking system to shoot some of my bike stunts!
Like to try it with yunohost, owncloud,jappix to make my own open-nas/hostingservice/dropbox/socialnetwork and so one by plugging my external hardrive on. Want to experiment and go further. Seems really cool.
I would build a Car PC with ignition & RFID access-log. It is in the car as well as bluetooth speakers work.
I am interested in such a board for building a good security cam that actually will do what I want. All other security webcams are around 1000€ and way too expensive.
Also I am trying to build a box to connect to the TV for Surfing the Web, Playing small games with a wireless remote and watching Videos.
Love,
John
+1 on the security cam idea, I want to provide affordable remote sensing and security in a rural setting.
I’m looking forward to get my hands on the gooseboard to create intelligent boards that can fight between each other using expert systems and intelligent agents!
Hi there,
great idea
i want to have one to run linux on it and to build a / migrate our digital signage solution. theese boards seems to be perfect for ds-systems with the greater performance over the pi and the abilities coming with the form factor.
Looking forward to more good news on this product.
Greets from Germany
I plan to build my daughter a media box. She can do art as well as watch videos/netflix on her TV thanks to the Gooseberry!
Hi,
Il would make an open source dlp 3D printer (3d printer with resin) with integrated web server to act as a standalone printer. It would be affordable and very cool.
I would run XBMC to stream content from my SubSonic server so my grandpa can watch tv shows and movies without having to sit as his computer.
I have to do a backup of my root server regularly and I am doing from my notebook. I would use the board to tie it to my USB harddrive and then I would have a backup system that can be placed everywhere wifi is available. I need the computing power of the board because I am using rsync via ssh.
So it would be very cool to have a board and I can start and forget my backup solution.
Also I plan to do install some linux on it and try out xmbc and all the other stuff but my primary idea is to have a backup system.
…oh an it will be connected to my thermal printer so I can get receipts whenever a backup is complete
i’d like to develope compact ultra rugged communication gear (sat&encrypted) for areas where no uncensored media access is possible (send and forget / receive and forget)
30 words
I would like to integrate it into my kitchen to have access to recipes.
Will be realized over the entire touch panel.
Initial plan is to create a touch screen CarPC with OBD-II/EOBD connectivity for vehicle diagnostics and in car infotainment. Hopefully with bluetooth (hands free calling) and a functioning T-Mobile modem for constant in car internet (pandora radio and GPS navigation) assuming I can also get GPS.
I would also use one for android development and testing of OBD-II/EOBD enhanced diagnostics software. Specifically Palmer Performance Engineering’s DashCommand
As elder pc-supporter for retired peoples i will show the others, how they can demonstrate her grandchilds what’s the future of computing…
I would like to see whether it would be feasible to use the board for simulations such as FEM and computational fluid simulations, utilizing the GPU. I would compare performance to price, including electricity costs. Maybe it would be competitive in high performance computing.
Well, i’ve two project using this board :
- The first one would be to build an homemade tablet to learn more about electronic and hardware stuff.
- The second is to use the board as a domotic server, maybe used with opencv and some cameras, or sensors, to do simple tasks such as switching ligths on/off, turning computer on/off, opening/closing the shutters, turning on/off an alarm, and stuff like that…
I know it’s not that original, but seems intersting (and useful) to me
IMHO I think the best project would be a kid computer, 2d educational games, videos and a “serious” mediacenter, even a custom OS for this tasks would be pretty nice and cheap!!
No more pseudo-tablets for kids!
hello,
I have to build with this part remains a jaybook-9905 upgrade or a completely separate notbook if the lcd is not compatible. Besides these you can solder additionally a further 2 usb connections but only one has full component assembly (all be added together, there are 3). the components are not expensive, there are only a voltage regulator and resistor and capacitors. If I not find any matching lcd or other problems then I would have a small pc build it. much still to extend custody internal memory (swap the nand) or other experimental
greet from germany
I want to make a shoe box computer cluster
I would like to play with it :-/
I will build a 46” touch screen using the Gooseberry Board. The start-up screen will say: “The Raspberry Pi’s big brother”.
I plan to hook up a seismometer & plot my neighbour’s treadmill activities on the Richter Scale. That or for time-lapsed weather pictures, like storms rolling into the valley or snow melting off the mountains. All power by my 15-watt solar project! Thanks.
I want to use something like this as a new control system for my automatic cocktail machine. Currently it runs totally off an arduino board, but thinking I could get a much better and more powerful interface using ICS and the Android ADK in combo with the arduino to to drive the I/O. Perhaps build it into a nice kiosk with screen. With it being wireless could even make a web based interface or link it to a tablet etc. So many possibilities!
I would glue this to my phone to create an ultra portable entertainmant system also a pc away from home that you can use by hijacking screens.
My little brother gets married July 6th. I want to get him a TV or a computer. He’s learning how to code games. With a Gooseberry, I can afford both!
Hey,
I would create an extensible, cheap tablet, easy to use, for all the people with not so much money (especially kids) to connect them to the internet, lead to programming and hardware hacking.
It’s also possible to make an notebook or even a little pc instead of a tablet.
I would like to learn how to develop on ARM based platforms and other boards haven’t yet got enough power. Your board could help me start my career as a junior developper. (32 words)
Anyway, I would like to thank you for the hard work you put in this project, it is people like you, with their fantastic ideas, who enable young students like me to get a better education.
Please! I want to see if these could be suitable replacements for Windows boxes in a classroom.
If so, I’ll follow-up with an order of 6.
Thanks!
I would run different emulators on it, like n64 etc.
It’s maybe a good portable retro gaming solution!
Would like to port ROS(Ros.org) to this and use it to a control a turtlebot.
would like to run some gsm sms scripts for a funny geocach
lol, did not read the blogpost carefully, here my idea in <30 words:
Tie the board to a USB harddrive to have a standalone, everywhere working backup solution for my root server.
Create an extensible, cheap tablet, easy to use, for all the people with not so much money to connect them to the internet, lead to programming and hardware hacking.
I would use it to create a simple Android desktop computer which is easy to deploy, manage and use.
I would use it to create a little tablet using a goose, a touchscreen and linux!I could even proof that the US$100 computer is possible, and do it!
Hey,
i wanna to use the gooseberry bord to build up a linux based mobile uav groundstation (manage waypoints, telemetry data , video data,3D virtualisation )
-low cost
-low power consumption
-wifi connection
-usb port for radio devices (telemetry data exchange)
-enough computing power for a 3D virtualization &
-visualisation via hdmi or lvds port
that would be really awsome =)
Ground station is a great project for this. Even better with optional use of a Pixel Qi screen!
I’ll be using it to make a Google Glasses clone
I have got all the components, I just need a good board!
I would like to possibly help port xbmc, make custom android roms, and make a customized linux distro.
Gooseberry FTW!
When the hardware is old and tired it will go into my quadcopter project.(thermal camera equipped)
i would like to use my gooseberry with the ‘Radio Jove’ radio telescope kit I have ordered from
radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/
its an educational project and if the gooseberry is uploading data to the net, loads of people will benefit from its services. i did buy a raspberry pi and was lucky enough to get one of the ones with usb/keyboard problems.
thanks – jutt
I will buy some boards and create a little cluster for process a large amount of data.
I want to use this board to build a brain machine interface in a research lab for mice with virtual reality created by the 1080p video output
I’m creating a multi-fx guitar server for that kind of boards.
Html 5 back-end looking like a pedalboard working on iPad, computers.
I’ll interface it with an usb footswitch later.
Get the supplier to sell it directly on eBay (He already does that with it’s tablets). That way you’ll get hundreds of distributors, low shipping costs with insurance, and avoid the raspberry Pi fiasco of people selling them on eBay for profit.
I would like to build home access control. I already got a device that can turn a key in a lock, a webcam and a fingerprint scanner. Thus far I have been able to get finger print unlocking to work, but only with my pc and long cables. so the raspberry would be just the thing I need, to make my own high level security access system with XML based user authentication for my home via face recognition (work in progress) or fingerprint (done, but in experimental stage).
That’s my idea,
Frank
30 Words:
Want to build automatic authentication for my home with fingerprint (somewhat working) and face recognition. The Gooseberry is needed as a server for unlocking and XML authentication.
Frank
Here some pictures of the setup (notice the cable). Added some speech recognition. Doesn’t work very good but it was raining horribly, which created a lot of background noise. But it’s developing faster than I expected.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1953949/2012-07-04%2019.34.06.jpg
Guys
I don’t have a time to play with it but I would port Ubuntu-TV on to it.
I would buy that straight away.
DUDO
Would like to use it with my DyIO to complete my open source fortune telling machine (think the movie “Big”, but creepier) for Idaho Makerfair 2013.
I would like to try and run it from a solar panel and use it to continually collect stats from my main solar panels on my roof and then use Graphite to chart my energy production. I would like to use the built in holt-winters features in Graphite to forecast my earnings from my solar endeavours.
I will try to build a server, that can be extended with other gooseberry boards to build up an arm powered gooseberryserver.
I would use the Gooseberry to automate my solar powered aquaponic system. Not only would it be fantastic for controlling pumps and solenoids, It could also track and post data (flow rates, temps,DOxy, power consumption/generation and even video feeds).
The Platinum Girls: Affordable interactivity Grandma can install. Netvideo for Rockford reruns, webcam for Hangouts, browser for grandkid pics. IR input, single home screen. Connectivity fits on the curio shelf.
When will this competition be ending?
I want to create a small low power kiosk device which can have unlimited uses (entertainment, education, etc) I have already a working prototype (and use it also on my HTPC) https://vimeo.com/43782492 . It’s QT based so it should be easy to port to ARM, even making it a standalone. My first idea was to buy a RPI but after research I gave my preorder slot to somebody else. Since then because of lack of a powerfull inexpensive board, the project halted a bit.
I will make smart house system. I would use 6lowpan technology to control all devices.
“I’ll use it as a client for my media server to stream FullHD and play music. There are some nice features like “light controlling” i’ll try to implent.”
These are my 30 words. I hope my english is not too bad (I’m from Germany^^), but I have a video for you with the effect lights (0:25):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeXSULhlxKo
We will build a remote antenna controller unit that can interface with our deep space VT-063 antenna. It is currently monitoring the ACE satellite at a distance of 1.5 million km from the Earth which is used to predict the suns weather and protect satellites etc.
I would like to program a Robot with this Board to play Soccer and film it in HD. With WLAN it can stream it to the PC.
I would use it for:
-rooting android phones
-projector/TV mini pc
-in-car TV
-programming in school
-security camera
-server
-ceacking wifi’s in my neigborhood
-and the best I’m going to build something in style of microsoft table
I’m verry happy for this board that it came on the market, and the most important thing is that we can teach children programming and using board for other things not just for games and internet, because this jobs like programmer are paid verry good and only thing you need is computer! I’m 15 and I can tell you that all my classmates are interested in gooseberry! I’m so interesting in this board that I have bought all components for my gooseberry <3
Best Regards
I would use it for:
-rooting android phones
-projector/TV PC
-car TV
-school usage
-security camera
-server
-ceacking wifi’s
-multitouch table
I forgot the rule with 30 words!
“I have several projects, one would be a mediaCenter and the other one is a domotic system for my house. I want this board to be the first one in my hands
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I’d use a gooseberry to create OBD-II interface that links a GPS to create a telematics device, and double-up as an in-car entertainment system that interfaces with VAG dashboard display
I want to create mediacenter on Android and/or other Linux.
Something similar to Nexus Q
With webserver, and some mono stuff for C# (Windows Clients
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Prepare special version of my app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scrobblefm for more desktop use with controlling via other phone/dekstop and with sort of web interface.
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Connect some sensors and create meteo station with webinterface and Android client app
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If will get one soon it is highly possible that I would use it in my master thesis
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And many, many more
. On Raspberry Pi I have created a lot so on Gooseberry it would be much, much more 
Hmm… house automation application
Art Installations – We encourage our students to develop artistic installations involving any tech they want. They focus on any aspect they want, image, interaction environment. Gooseberry is perfect for this.
I’d like to show my son the ‘evolution’ since my C64 to this ‘pocket-pc’ which will be our new media center
this realization still sends shiver down my spine
I want to code an operating system specifically to emulate the old video game systems, this board would be great for a test platform.
Here is my submission. Hope you like it since i was working on it since days.
http://youtu.be/_rccPKk0-jg
Would really love a Gooseberry Board.
I wouldn’t need to use a computer for my internet browsing and such daily activities 
That’s a nice vid you made there!!!
Thanks alot man
Appreciate it. 
Wow! Don’t want to announce winners at this point but you certainly have a good chance!
Thanks mate, that’s surely some appreciation,and made all those work hours worth it.
@admin I would have worked harder at this, but there wasn’t a closing date mentioned, so I wanted to submit it before the competition is closed, and all my work goes to waste
. Better safe than sorry.
By the way, with the small logos on the site, and no other images, i had to recreate your logos in a hurry, I hope you’ll don’t mind that
You know, that the gooseberry site isn’t gooseberry.com?
Oh shit, should i redo it?
I can do it 
I don’t think, thats a big problem,
How did you render it?
And btw, I’m not part of the staff
My name is just green because of my website, you don’t have to redo it because of me;-)
I will add you as friend on YouTube tomorrow!
Hey, i knew it, but it was a mistake i had to fix. I guess watching reruns for graphical mistakes kinda made me miss out on the website mistake. I usually just type gooseberry and ENTER to get to the site.
I don’t use Youtube much, or upload any videos, I just did it for the requirement of this competition.But i will add you
I rendered it on After Effects, but built it with Flash. Since my system is really slow.
had to compress it to upload it.
I had run on of space, and had to use the Flash drive to render it on, but no one told me it would burn my flashdrive out. I guess it was too heavy for my 16GB sandisk Ultra back up.
Just a 1 Minute file was rendering to a 1.60GB movie.
Thanks a lot for your help mate !
If you want, I could render it for you in Full HD
My pc has an i7, 10Gb RAM, an ATI Radeon 6550 and After Effects CS 5
Thanks, but it will take alot of time to send everything
I hope this is better, I fixed it. http://youtu.be/zp6gxy2nRXk
I can convince to all my school teachers to invest in a suitable way to teach computing to all my schoolmates without expend a lot of money.
Make my TV smart, run a NAS/media server, make a download pc and show off to all who bought raspberry pi’s.
Hi,
I would like to make the Board mobile with a small Battery. Then connect a Kinect (or better an Asus Xtion) to the Gooseberry and run ROS or PCL on it. It would be great to build the first prototype of a 3D mobile camera with the gooseberry. The device would be perfect for that and could change the way of taking fotos today.
I will be building a synthesizer featuring a full sized keyboard, inbuilt 15″ touch based DAW, multiple synthesisation methods and the ability to record multiple tracks on the device itself!
I will build a low budget plug & play domotica system for disabled and old people, which could be controlled by any universal controller, PC, iPad or Android device.
Create a monitoring board for our web app ( Done It Yeti? http://www.doneityeti.com ) so we can pull important data through and display it to the studio 24/7.
Also possible integration with some kind of external addons to make big red lights flash / sirens wail if something breaks
I would use the board as a small but reasonably powerful platform for a simulated simh/vms/vax environment. Anything cooler than a full fledged vax in my pocket? I would add some kind of 3g umts stick too and would have this machine reacheable from the internet 24/7 anywhere I go.
first i would overclock it like hell. i would need a datasheet of the ic that controlls the vrm, -> that delivers the cpu with voltage. so i would do a kind of voltmod. maybe i would do for a zombiemod if necessary, depending on the powerconsumption. at least i would build build a kinda netbook without display xD
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We would use it along with a Pixel Qi monitor for an ultra-low power solar powered computer for our Appropriate Technology Research Station in the mountains of Central Portugal. Everything from environmental controls on the green house, solar PV panel tracker, data logging on hydro power production from the river, as well as instructional works for the station and classroom presentation.
All fitted in an awesome sustainable-handcrafted steampunk olivewood case!
i’ll use it as the main brain for the artificial intelligence of the robot my group of student are designing: it will allow us to have the memory and RAM needed to map its environement and to plan its own trajectory.
I am member of a scout group and in the last 2 month they broke in into our club house twice. Now I need a low-power system for video surveillance.
That’s a good post.
I’m thinking a voice controlled stereo system throughout my house. One of these, or perhaps a wifi microphone, in each room. “Gooseberry, turn on Pandora Station The Clash”. Use a keyword and filtering to prevent the music from triggering effects. I can’t wait!!
Hi,
I’m an engineer and I’m already in a beta stage of making a TV backlight system (ambilight like), but raspberry pi isn’t really powerful to get something fluent.
That’s why I need a Gooseberry.
Please help me
Hi,
the goosberry board is perfectly suited to build up a simple marine system which controlls io components like ais / navtex / gps. Further more
Hi,
the goosberry board is perfectly suited to build up a simple marine system which controlls io components like ais / navtex / gps. Further more a monitor should display the processed data (GPS Card’n stuff).
I will put it into the basic school my girlfriend is teaching at and give the kids some introduction on computing, hacking, coding and maybe we are able to realise a cool classroom gadget which detects when the blackboard have to be cleaned and via text2speech who have to do it
I would make one into a Carputer and another into HTPC.
I am working towards researching concurrent distributed systems and am looking for low cost computers. I would need these computers at different locations with remote access. Another requirement is low energy consumption. ARM boards look like a good option, but I would need them in exponents of 2. A single board can start off the experimentation.
I’m willing to put it in a ps2 slim (as a case) and use it as little pc-mediacenter!
A little Preview:
http://imageshack.us/f/402/ps2goosberry.jpg/
I plan to strap it to the back of a hedgehog [wearing a mac as it rains a lot here] and track it as it forages in preparation for hibernation. Once hibernating, should it have chosen a bonfire site, temperature increase will send alert
I need this board to program skynet and become ruler of the machine army under the guise of being a terminator, to harvest the world’s chocolate cake supplies for myself.
I need to make something to scare the crap out of my cats. Did I say scare? I mean entertain….
Low cost, low power multimedia hub for a schoolroom
I need it to control a electrophoresis system, a laboratory product, which requires a USB camera and Bluetooth to remotely run pump, motor, solenoid and high power LEDs. I already have the board which contains all the driver circuits. I do not have a controlling PCB where Gooseberry would fit without any problem!
I would use it to create my on Nexus Q and show Google that it can be done cheaper.
I’d like to Build a mini pc with a custom 3D printed Case featuring a 2.5″ drive and enough space for a powered USB hub. Working together with an electronics student I’m going to aim for an autarc Computer with its own Power Supplz via a 1m^2 solar panel and an 5000mAh Battery. This is really interesting, because computer industries are much more interested in power effency than car industries…
I would use it for Hamradio Application .. Digital Repeater / Aprs Tracking / Svxlink etc .. i wonder how it will perform against the RaspBerry Pi
I currently work in a research lab designing, building, and flying research satellites. I would use my Gooseberry to automate ground station activities. Automatically controlling a 26 meter radio dish!
Check out out blog: http://exploration.engin.umich.edu/blog/
I want to see if it will blend
I want to create an autarc mini pc. Together with two other engineering students we’ll print our own Case with a 2.5″ drive bay and a powered USB hub. Having packed together everything nicely we’ll work on an autonom power supply system based on a big battery and some solar panels.
This is really huge because computer industries has been into energy saving with much more efforts than other industries, especially car industries…
And of course we want to beat the raspberry pi in benchmarks!
Double post, didn’t want to do that, sorry…
We would like to connect the board to a webcams inside and outside our airplane, and then stream the video down to the ground from 13000ft to the ground so we can get a live view when we exit the plane.
I would replace with it my PC and start doing everything I am used to do on my computer (multimedia, studying, surfing…) and I would post everythig about it on special blog.
I own an Xbox, WDTV, Mac Mini, and a Nexus Q. NONE of them give me the entertainment experience that I’m looking for. I believe that the Gooseberry board will.
- Hook up to my 120″ projector and surround sound for video
- Use it to download to my NAS when not streaming video
- Try to get emulators working for some good old school gaming
Display computer for IP cameras. Just connect monitor. The cameras cost enough without buying and managing PCs for display.
I just want to pretend I’m some kind of scientist with all these boards, that’s all.
Used to watch Dexter’s laboratory cartoon too.
Friend of mine managed to get his hands on a raspberry pi. We are using it to be the brains of a little self driving rover.
The idea: Identical rovers. Different brains. One obstacle course maze. One Champion. Gooseberry v Raspberry.
please ignore, 30 word version below
Friend has a raspberry pi. We are using it to drive a little rover.
The idea: Identical rovers. Different brains. One obstacle course maze. One Champion. Gooseberry v Raspberry.
I am going to make a mobile telemetry device that can be added to any vehicle and record much detail like speed location and anything else I can think of. I think the gooseberry board will be able to allow me to do this.
I plan on turning the Gooseberry into a small webserver to help promote the Star Wars 501st Legion and all they do to help children’s cancer foundations! What’s cooler than that?!
I have a large robot that currently shoots basketballs using a mounted launcher. I would use the gooseberry to provide autoaiming to that robot so that it could identify the basketball hoop, adjust it’s angle to the hoop, and adjust speed based on it’s distance from the hoop.
I’d like to use one of these for interactive restaurant menus. You could order your meal, flag your waiter down, play games, or even watch family-friendly movies or shows.
A pair of goggles with full-field-of-view with a stereo camera for the a augmented reality display like none other. optics are done and most of the parts sourced and I’ve started on the code, just need a hardware platform to dev on. and yes it will all be open source.
ive been looking for a cheap source of an allwinner board to dev on and this is it!
I would simply use it for the purposes advertised by Gooseberry as being beneficial for what it was intended to be used for. Simples.
I shall use the Gooseberry to maintain and keep tabs on my gooseberry farm, which grows gooseberries.
I’d like to build a media center for my family. When this project is finished, I’d buy another one to build a media center for my car.
I am going to replace my house automation system.
Currently I am using an iomega iconnect with arch linux, fhem and a cul v4.
I need it to save the world! i will use ist as pc to browse teh net and hear musik. it will take less current then my pc. so it is necessary that i get one.
I’d put the board in a sweet case, and run MuttonChop http://www.jezra.net/projects/muttonchop on it.
I plan on using the gooseberry to do research and development of joining of mini computers, including using phones to help boost performance. This will be part of my final project for college.
I’ll be using it to make available my framework to another platform, the framework eases GLES development…
As a university student in telecommunications field, i’d like to “research” board’s potential on telecomunication projects. (And try to play minecraft on it
– Just kidding!!!)
I plan to send a Gooseberry into low earth orbit. First test run will be a weather balloon to 100,001 feet to test various functions. If an iPhone has been to 100,000 Some one… and i mean ME!!! Is sending a gooseberry and the end goal of the test run to play angry birds via remote on a gooseberry that’s in almost in space!
iphone4s 100K feet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtXquYhY7wo
who dosent want video footage of one of the 1st 5 gooseberries preforming in space
I want try to teach my wife about Linux and hardware .. boy .. I’m sweating even thinking about it
I’m going to use one on stage, to trigger sounds and music against the synths, guitars & vocals.
The ultimate extra band member !!
Would be needed for a ham radio project for my local club. Who knows, might save a life doing this, since we do search and rescue.
I would like the board for hosting a 24/7 minecraft server. And installing xbmc on it for a nice media center for my TV.
Node.js driven Arduino interface. Think robotics, web server, home automation, etc… Generic USB based Arduino expansion with JS interfaces for common shields.
Do I at least get points for mentioning Robotics, Arduino, and Node in a single idea?
We would like to use it as a high and low level controller for a quadrotor so we can easily add a kinect and do slam with a navigation and exploring algorithm on board. In addition test the platform for use in other robotics research projects where we currently use FitPc’s
I would like to make with it a faster & smarter UAV for remote sensing.
It will be way more powerful then ArduPilot.
As an OS aficionado and developer, I’ll be trying to develop some ARM OS, possibly trying to help the Minix team with their ARM port and see if I can get running a low-end operating system (all free software).
Ultimately, having a portable/wereable PDA will be amazing (like the Pip-Boy in fallout games for example).
I will integrate it in a friends car. It will get 3 monitors, sound system, GPS navigation and some other cool features. Everything controlled by a primary touchscreen for the driver.
So it would be cool to get one.
An automated in car assistance system.
Running from a 10″ touch screen, via a wifi connection, would offer GPS via a GPS dongle or via another method, would also offer a car tracking system which would update the cars position, and also automatic lights from a certain time, and also weather updates, even maybe automatic wipers and such, also it would be a media center for the car, a multi-purpose tool, which would be a great aid, once I have worked on getting it running correctly.
Id like to use the Ra… err, Gooseberry, in a quadrocopter drone setup, which hopefully enables the drone to actually be independent in computer and camera controlled flights. I´ll try to hatch my kinect sensor in the setup for real 3d surround calculations. That being said, replace cpu and ram only by stronger cpu and more ram (who needs a r-pi)
The only way to have have your pi and intergrate with a goosberry what could be any better then i would ony need to put it together with an ice cream sandwich
I am a laid off music teacher that is substituting in one of the largest districts in California for all grades and subject areas. I teach thousands of students every month, and my plan is to demonstrate this pc to the students I come in contact with, and explain that they could own one for a reasonable price. This pc will absolutely increase the productivity of my student population, as a considerable number of them don’t have the money to own a standard pc, but still need to be able to surf the web for research, and type their class assignments. This pc is the key to their future success. I thought the raspberry pi was going to be the key, but after fiddling with it, it is just not powerful enough to get the job done, and that is where the gooseberry solves the problem.
would like on to create a car infotainment system with gps and bluetooth based on linux.
make a proof of concept that could become a linux distro.
Hi,
I really need a Goosbery Board, because I would like to set up a smart phone based on the Goosberry Board. It has many advantages about the Raspberry Pi. It is better AND it got its interfaces on only one side. So it would be better for smart phones.
Please send me one
Cheers,
Thomas
I would use it mostly for testing, debugging and developing better software to better the DIY community. Hopefully more people getting themselves into ARM development.
I’ll be using it to finally prove the cat is lying.
I’d love to take the Gooseberry and turn it into an Home Automation project which integrates with my Android, A/C, lights, and locks.
I’d make the Gooseberry available to my company’s engineering department who builds software for law enforcement. It would be an ideal mobile/automotive platform for agencies with tight budgets.
I would like it to measure sunlight intensity and turn on various devices to fully utilise my array of 16 Solar Panels avoiding any waste.
Tim
I’d like to turn a 22″ monitor into a 22″ android tablet to keep by lad happy on Angry Birds, sadly not touchscreen but maybe a future update to the screen can change that. Or maybe an in-car android PC. Or maybe both. Looking forward to when cases become available via 3rd party suppliers.
I want to use the device as a controller for a programmable self-built milling machine. The construction will be built with profile rails. So I can make nice and neat cutouts in PC cases.
I would use a gooseberry as the main board of a autonomous underwater vehicle that will be used for swarming research.
This would be the first underwater robot swarm in the world.So be part of history and beat out gumstix, beagle boards, and rasberry pi computers!
I will use it as a part of my current build house automation. Besides of Raspberry Pi as well
Bicycle + Arduino + Sensors(Airquality, Heartbeat, Temperature, Humidity, Velocity, GPS) + Battery(Solarpanel, Generator) + Gooseberry = Mobile Bicycle Sensor Platform for Airquality Monitoring
Hey,
i will use the board to connect all my rooms with my homeserver to have access in every room to my media
Also if the power is enough i will plug in an external hard disk to reduce coasts for energy, if i can replace my homeserver with gooseberry
I need a cheap board for a ambient assisted living application. I have a fall detection in mind and there must be something to send data to a wireless router and also to do some logic when the connection to a server is lost.
I will use mine to run a robot- wait for it- WITH LIDAR! using a cheap infra-red camera and an infra-red laser and a four way 3.5mm headphone jack as a slip ring. The Gooseberry will calculate the distance knowing the angle of the camera and the distance between the camera and laser for triangulation, and will drive the robot for none else than WORLD DOMINATION TO DESTROY ALL RASPBERRYS!
The gooseberry board is just perfect for my media center project with Ubuntu, XBMC and kinect. Also a little bit house automation for the lights is planned. So take me
I plan on using this to use as a controller for multiple wifi AP’s. In conjunction I also want to use it with arduino to create server room monitoring for security/environment conditions. And if their are any resources left on the system, I want to setup rrdp to monitor some snmp settings on some switches.
My reasons for wanting to use this board:
1. Low power consumption
2. Small form factor.
3. Powerful architecture type
Tim
I’d use the board to create a quadcopter with a GoPro camera pan/tilt mount with auto tracking system to shoot some of my bike stunts!
I am going to start building an army of robots to conquer the world.
I would like to have one to develop for it as I am also building aokp and cm9 for the galaxy s2. With this specs also Jelly Bean is 99% possible! I would also like to build something like my own tablet with it
I would use it to teach my son the wonders of Gooseberry flavoured Android and Linux system admin. currently he thinks the command line is ‘cool’ , so it is time to strike while the iron is hot!
Use it as a controller for multiple wifi AP’s. In conjunction I also want to use it with arduino to create server room monitoring for security/environment conditions.
I will quit earth and go live on Mars ! need one !
Ingredient for portable chick magnet:
One piece of Gooseberry
One piece of Motorola Laptop Dock
Handful of mix usb cables
Plenty of spare time & patience
I will be using the Gooseberry to set up a streaming media centre for the theatre room which will serve the rest of the house while also acting as a torrent box.
I would like to run XBMC on this.
I have other ideas, but this is most important to me
Plan on using it to get my 4yr old started with computers. We need more geek chicks running around.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/130599/2503609321953_25347.mp4
Robotics, 3d printing and a whole world of possibilities…
I would love to get my hands on one of these devices to make an affordable multi-purpose graphics tablet for students who are studying video games or animation. With such a small device can easily be packed into bag with a decent sized capacitative screen attached.
I’ll use mine to ensure I’m always first to get beta boards, as I did on this site >:D
id try to incorporate it in to my kitchen and herb garden ,
This + Kinect + Roomba. It will open the fridge, grab a beer, and with a launcher, fling it back to me for the ultimate lazy mans beer delivery vehicle.
I plan to build and android powered low cost tablet from this. And plan to demonstrate this at a maker fair to get high school kids into making stuff.
Here’s my video! Please, be sure to activate the subtitles (made by me), since I speak in spanish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-jFI18OKo
But, roughly speaking, mi project is a Nature spy webcam
I am going to change the way we think about home audio and video systems. I am going to make it pervasive and ambient, going together with home internal communication, video survellience and security systems.
I would put the board in a frame and put up on my wall as art. But it will be a kind of living/working art as it will also be used as a home media box & console emulation box too.
I would use it to further my linux abilities and to work on a easy to use intuitive personal cloud server for the arm processor. I would like to base this system on either Debian/Ubuntu or preferably BSD. The cloud has become increasingly popular of the last year which is great for some, but honestly do you want major corporations to store and have access to all of your personal data. So i plan to create a distrobution that provides cloud functionality but is completely under the end users control. All the benefits of a major cloud service and more, while still retaining what little bit of privacy we have left in the modern age. Basic functionallity would include an easy to setup ftp file server, vnc remote desktop, web browser and social applications. Would also include dlna media streaming software as well as a remote torrent client. Would also like to create an easy way to acess your server through an account the keeps track of your dynamic ip adress by having the gooseberry update its ip to a server if it has changed.All of this would of course be encrypted and password controlled with acess across many devices including but not limited to android, ios, windows, and linux devices. So in short I would make the ultimate home server for day to day use.
Sorry for my bad english. I am working in a small student television, and our speakers must speak everything by heart. So I woult use it to make some low cost reader for our speaker.