RASPBERRY PI VIDEO GAME ARCADE IN AIR MONITORING STATION

It will be that costs very little, just 17 ​​euro, which will be his rugged looks suggests or allows integration in any type of project or idea, the fact is that the Raspberry Pi , the micro PC in the size of a USB key contains a SoC Broadcom BCM2835 processor ARM1176JZ-F to 700 MHz and the graphics subsystem VideoCore IV, 128 or 256 MB of RAM and multiformat card reader to use as a storage room, was immediately used in projects as diverse and often handicraft sometimes really eccentric but always lending itself very well to the creativity of Net users.

Recently, for example, there are those who used to give life to the rivals of augmented reality glasses Google Project Glass , who has made ​​a notebook, or connecting it to a Motorola LapDock or even placing it in a metal case transformed for the occasion in portable, who still has the display connected to the low power of an Amazon Kindle eReader and who finally hasmade ​​a reader of audiobooks , but if you think you will find that these can not be overcome for originality read. In the Web it has appeared in these days other two mod , one linked to the fun, the other more serious.

In fact, someone had the idea to connect the Raspberry Pi in a mini display by 2.4 inches and 320 x 240 pixels of resolution, install the software emulator of games MAME , add two small speaker, a few buttons, a mini joystick and push it all in a small box of plexiglass that takes the appearance of the typical cabinet arcade games arcade games of the 80s, creating the smallest and running gaming machines in the world.

The other project instead is open source and was started by Le Labo Citoyen , a young French start-up that deals with "promote and experiment with innovation and open technologies for citizens and the environment" and that He has used the Raspberry within a portable control unit able to analyze the levels of pollutants in the air of Paris . In addition to the mini PC is required for this unit is also a sensor Alphasense B4 from 110 Euros , a Sigma Delta ADC for about 30 Euros, a USB dongle to the GPRS, the average cost of 35 Euros, and a power supply, which is also the price of about EUR 30, to which finally should be added the 10 Euros of the cabinet, for a total of 255 EUR .

Right now the device is still in beta and the program code used to collect and transmit the data, ThingStream , is not yet available but will be soon, and developers also think to create an image of RaspBian, the Linux OS based derived from Debian distro that runs microPC, able to run the scripts needed to collect and process data.

Via: Liliputing - CNX-Software

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