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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: 10 Rasberry PIs available for projects
From:       Tirtha Chatterjee <tirtha.p.chatterjee () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-10-02 10:43:28
Message-ID: CAONxnqLD_TB18-hSFepDexJJRXsYhQmxdTB8nW+cN+aA9fJz2g () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels@kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia@kde.org> wrote:
>> Heya folks :)
>>
>> A while ago Nokia has offered to sponsor 10 Rasberry PIs for KDE.
>> (Thanks Nokia!) They have now arrived in the KDE e.V. office. We need
>> to figure out what to do with them now. So if you have a cool idea
>> that you're willing to do with one of them and that would benefit KDE
>> please post it here within the next 2 weeks. (If there are more than
>> 10 proposals I can be bribed with cookies :P)
>> Oh and I forgot: 1 of them should go to Dario for a tutorial at the Qt
>> Developers Conference in the US.
>>
>> So please. What's your cool idea for a Rasberry PI?
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lydia
>>
>> --
>
> I've got a TI pico projector dev-kit bought a few years ago for a
> special project idea. It would be coupled with a CMOS sensor and some
> fancy optics (the hard part) to create in essence a completely new
> computing platform. It would be tied in with local-link and online
> media and home control systems. It will be a dream playground for 3D
> gesture concepts.

You would not believe it, but I have been working on the same thing
recently. I am working on developing the recognition part for now,
since I don't own a projector. Going a little off-topic, can you give
me a link as to how I can procure such a pico-projector dev-kit?

>
> Originally I planned to create completely custom Qt5 scene-graph based
> software for this, but I think building on top of the latest plasma
> active is more time-efficient.
> If there are more worthy proposals or requestors that have more free
> time then me, please give it to them. I'm fully capable to buy my own.
> This would most likely end up in the hands of a student I would
> mentor.
>
> Bart
>
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Regards
Tirtha Chatterjee
KDE developer
http://wyuka.co.cc/

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