Raspberry Shake Your Personal Seismograph

A project in Seattle, WA by Angel Rodriguez
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A professional grade personal seismograph. Plug it into your Raspberry Pi and start watching the earth move!
Backers: 597
Average Pledge Per Backer: $166

Funded: $99,258 of $7,000
Dates: Jul 17th -> Aug 20th (34 days)
Project By: Angel Rodriguez
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Latest News

This Raspberry Pi seismograph detects vibrations from earthquakes to footsteps

August 18th - via: theverge.com
In the same way that apps augment the abilities of smartphones, people keep on coming up with new gizmos to make the pocket-sized Raspberry Pi even more useful. (Read More)

$50K goal reached, the project just turned on the afterburners!

August 12th - via: kickstarter.com
We did it, we did it! Dear backers and readers, Glenn Erickson winning the Washington State Championships in the early 70's.  My partner in R+E Cycles, Glenn Erickson winning the Washington State Championships in the early 70’s. This is exactly... (Read More)

EMSC is supporting Raspberry Shake!

August 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Backers, We got a note today from Dr. Remy BOSSU, secretary general of European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) who has just become our 303th backer with a Magnitude 9.0, the ready to go Raspberry Shake. European-Mediterranean... (Read More)

Raspberry Shaked detected two earthquakes

August 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi community: Last weekend our Raspberry Shake 18 bit prototype detected two earthquakes! See below for a screenshot from the free, open source USGS program "SWARM". You are looking at 24 hours of seismic data. Raspberry Shake is SWARM-compatible so... (Read More)

Acrylic box for Pi Zero

August 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Raspberry Shake backers: Since the beginning of this project, we wanted to make Raspberry Shake ready to work with different Raspberry Pi models. We have in our office the B, B+, 2B and 3 models. Due to requests from our backers, we are now... (Read More)

Upgrades to Raspberry Shake

July 30th - via: kickstarter.com
500% of our goal! Thanks to all of you, based on your tremendous support we are going to upgrade the MAX11211 an 18 bit digitizer to a MAX11200 a 24 bit digitizer. We are also going to upgrade the two op amps. The upgrades add a few dollars to the... (Read More)

Raspberry Shake v2

July 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello community: We have finished the new layout that overcomes the interference with the Shake board and the composite video connector on the early Raspberry Pi. To make up for the lost space we changed many of the passive components from size 0402... (Read More)

You made it possible!

July 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Community, Over the weekend we busted through our second Stretch Goal of $25,000. That wouldn't be possible without our community who has believed in us since the first moment. Thanks community! We are going to have to call all of the programmers... (Read More)

YESSSSSS! $15,000 first stretch goal

July 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks for your support! Raspberry Shake has always been able to communicate over Ethernet with other computers and other Raspberry Shakes. But it does it in a passive way, you have to call it and it will answer. The problem is that most modern... (Read More)

Thanks for your support!

July 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Our next milestone is the $15000 Stretch Goal as soon as we get the we will break out he computer terminals and begin to code.  (Read More)

We reached our goal, thank you so very much!

July 18th - via: kickstarter.com
WOW!!!!  What a day Thank you for being a part of this project. After months of work and some dark days, you have made it all worth it. We will all sleep well tonight.  Next milestone our $15,000 stretch goal, we're on it.  (Read More)

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