If I were to be the winner, I would replace my wife's old, dying computer.  Turn her workstation power consumption from 300W+ to less than 50W.  Saving the environment on shmuck at a time!

Since it has low power consumption, lots of I/O and is fairly powerful, I would see if I could make an interesting environmental monitor. Since it should be well suited to being remotely situated, connected to various sensors and whilst capable of locally processing data and/or serving content.

Rather than things such as temperature and wind speed etc, I'd be more concerned with measurements such as the earth's magnetic field and radiation levels. The latter is particularly topical for obvious reasons, and the former since it's been predicted that we are entering a period of increased geomagnetic activity. So, ideally I'd like to try and construct a proton precession magnetometer, although this may turn out to be quite a challenge. However, measuring background radiation would be simpler and there are perhaps simpler instruments for measuring the earth's magnetic field to a lower resolution.

Hi all

the description of my proposed project for SBC-iMX51 board

SchoolBook is an embedded tablet device designed for replacing books taken to schools. It will have an user interface that will give a look and feel of real books. SchoolBook will be running on MeeGo
Main Features:

• Form Factor of a conventional notebook
• Touch pen interface(wacom penabled or similar technology) for taking notes, drawing and navigating
• Notes to be stores in users' handwriting, for getting a personal touch
• Tags to indicate topic of each note
  • Sorting and searching notes based on tags
• Networking with other SchoolBooks through WiFi/bluetooth
  • Sharing of notes with other SchoolBooks
• Notes stored in SchoolBook can be accessed from PC through USB Device interface
• Projector interface for conducting presentations
• Support of popular document and image formats – PDF, word, jpeg, etc
• Support of Course Management Systems like moodle, for teachers to maintain their notes & conducting examinations/class tests,etc
• Record and play back of class room sessions

with regards & prayers

najath

Its still May 3rd, I swears it! Just a little slow on picking a plan!

I'd implement the base station for my ongoing wireless sensor network project. Rather than limiting the controls to a few manual switches, I would make the controls software based (most likely by command line initially). The base station comments to the sensor nodes via a XBee module and has local sensing capabilities over I2C and the ADC. The ethernet capabilities could then be used along with a basic server to publish and grab sensor data to a service such as Pachube. Implementing a basic web server would also allow the device to operate without an attached LCD if needed. The remaining "power" of the board would allow the user to manage their other services through the web browser or simply use it as a media device when not monitoring the sensor network (Multitasking anyone?)

Future developments could include integrating a touchscreen for greater easy of use, and a battery supply to allow on the move use (USB Wifi adapter if you need it, or something else).

Perhaps not the best written out idea, but its a start!