Raspberry-Pi Kit

Vision: Making life fun & picking up a third thing Age group1: 45+ have spare time and wants to make life fun filled at the same time learning computer as well as electronics at ease also helping find out a third thing of life. Age group2: 10+ students to take up electronics and computer seriously as career in life. Third thing: Knowingly or unknowingly we pick up a hobby or third thing which makes our life meaningful and gives a direction through which we channelize our energy. Times passes while our creativity spurts and makes our life fun filled. At 45+ television & Internet steals away a hell lot of our time and at the end of the day when we look back, we find it's just reclined in arm chair and adding hours to our already sedentary life. Certainly no doubt the blood sugar , heart disease is on the rise at this bracket of age group. But picking up a third thing and pouring one's heart & mind into it makes everything different. There are lots of third things available for grab gardening, traveling, singing, dancing ,painting ,running ,writing. The list is endless and here I'm adding one more Electronics with Raspberry-Pi. Introduction: If electronics fascinated you ever or you use to be amazed at the computer show rooms where all different computers are on display then it's time now to give it a serious thought to take up a third thing which borders on both electronics and computers - Electronics with RaspberryPi. Ever since this credit card sized computer has appeared in the market the electronics & computer hobbyist around the world are highly enthusiastic about the future possibilities with it. The hobby shop giants adafruit.com, sparkfun.com, element14.com have been ripping the markets with add on boards / models / projects on Raspberry Pi computer. The UK and Europe markets & institutions are quite charged with the arrival of Raspberry Pi. In India the Raspberry Pi has certainly reached the market but in absence of hobby group or hobby kit it has failed to create the much desired uproar. On the other hand it's low cost & hi scalability could have created high sparks among computer / electronics savvy minds. In the educational institutions even the computer teachers too are not aware of it, far to talk of experimenting with it. Our Indian education system is the most rotten thing the word creativity , experimentation are the words hardly found in their curriculum. In the name of computer education our students get only few exposures to a certain high level languages C , C++ , HTML besides running the windows operating system beyond which they know naught. In this completely hopeless situation when I talked to a group of high school students I find they are completely disillusioned about computer education . The way they have been educated about the subject not surprisingly to produce that kind of emotions. The utterly bored students finally find solace in other non-productive jobs like driving , IPL etc. Pi-kit: Embarking on this void market I find a suitable pi-kit with a good guide book can realign our student group making them curious & techno savvy again. At the same time the middle aged group of people who have little spare money but more spare time can pick up a third thing in 'Electronics with Raspberry-Pi'. Creativity & curiosity which is strangulating in an unfriendly atmosphere will soar again in a conducive atmosphere. The pi-kit will consist of a complete kit with everything in a box and a guide book with all step-bystep practical hand-on projects right from basic, simple , difficult upto complex level. Once you

master the basic level the creativity will automatically take over the next level in finding the newer projects. What's inside the pi-kit: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. A Raspberry Pi model B (512 MB) An 8 GB SDCARD pre installed Wheezy Linux USB keyboard & Mouse (optional) An 1 amp 5 volt mini USB PSU with an additional jack for USB hub. A tiny brush less motor. DS18B20 digital temperature sensor. PIR Sensor. Powered USB hub.

9. 2 line 16 character LCD panel. 10. A stepper motor. 11. A servo control. 12. An USB camera. 13. A bread board 14. All the cords (A/V , HDMI, plug-in pins for bread board & GPIO break out cable ) 15. A small sugar cube relay. 16. ULN2003, L293 package. 17. A box for the Raspberry-Pi board. With bulk procurement (Say 30 or more ) all this can be put up in a mail order package for less than RS:15000 (USD 300) . For international customers the packaging and forwarding will be extra which will be around 100 USD extra. I need to find out the expected number of kits could meet the requirements. If you are interested (Indian or International customers) please let me know about it. Send in your email to berasomnath@gmail.com Regds, S. Bera Vindhyanagar, MP India