Raspberry Pi Projects
Many clients come to us with either a proof of concept that they have made or in need of someone to develop the hardware whilst they take charge of the firmware. In many of these instances clients will opt for using a Raspberry Pi. This is largely due to its relatively low cost, flexibility and ease of learning through its extensive online community.
Although not specialising in the development of software for the Pi, GBE have been able to draw on a depth of knowledge, skill and experience allowing the delivery of many successful projects from design to manufacture containing the embedded system.
The following outlines two (of many) cases where we have worked with the Raspberry Pi.
Impressions
The ‘Gateway’ (pictured above) was designed for applications within the security market. The device (powered by a Raspberry Pi 3B) acts as a router, bridging the gap between the clients cloud system (where all the data was stored) and the end node devices that were gathering the data.
GBE responsibility
Product Breakdown
GBE was successful in helping the client to develop a well rounded and robust system code.
The client came to GBE with a concept for a digital point of sale display to be incorporated in a whiskey bottle to be used for advertising within bars. For this project GBE was required to do only the hardware design. The screen was interfaced to the Pi via an HDMI connection. In order to house the screen and Pi within the bottle and still allow for the removal of components, it was necessary to call on the expertise of GBEs mechanical design department to engineer a mounting bracket.
Product Breakdown
The project was delivered to the specification and exceeded the clients expectation. The product has undergone field testing in the clients bars and is now ready for production.
