ECE department of Chitkara University, H.P. conducted the two-day faculty development program on Build your Own Smartphone using Raspberry Pi organized in collaboration with Computer Society of India Chandigarh Chapter and with industry support from Element14, Bangalore during July 25-26, 2015. Total 30 faculties from Chitkara University and four other neighboring engineering institutions attended the program.

Participants during the technical sessions

Trainer for the workshop was Dr. SRN Reddy - HOD CSE, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technological University for Women, New Delhi (He is an expert in the area of mobile architecture & computing and is handling many industry sponsored projects.) Dr. SRN Reddy Demonstrating the Smart Phone Kit in the photograph.Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer that can do everything a normal PC can do.

User just need to power it with microUSB adaptor, connect it to any display using HDMI or VGA interface, keyboard and a mouse and insert an microSD card containing OS (Linux operating system). Raspberry Pi features ARM7 Quad-core processor, with GPU operating at 1Ghz, 1GB RAM, 40GPIOs for sensor interfacing, 4 USB ports, various communications protocols, microSD card slot, camera and TFT display interfacing options. In this program participants learned mobile architecture, sensor interfacing (all the sensors that are present in any smartphone) and programming using Python.

Participants posing for a group photograph