Kickstarter & Raspberry Shake the World – Raspberry Pi Tech that Measures Quakes

The Science community is in shock as thousand-dollar professional grade seismographs are made available to anyone at a fraction of the price with the release of the Raspberry Shake 4D “Home Science” Monitor!

Volcán, Panama – July 22, 2017 /PressCable/ —

Local monitoring has already become a standard for many people in their homes, where it is commonplace to see weather stations, air quality monitors and other “home science” solutions. These personal science systems typically measure what people feel and sense, such as temperature and air quality, but what about things happening all around that aren’t noticed until perhaps it is too late, like earthquakes?

Last year, Raspberry Shake, the first professional home Earth monitoring device, was launched on Kickstarter’s crowdfunding platform and quickly became a Kickstarter Staff Pick that overshot its funding goal by 1,400%. This year the team is back and have launched their new generation on Kickstarter, the Raspberry Shake 4D, which was successfully funded in just 36 minutes!

The Raspberry Shake 4D, uses four precision sensors to accurately monitor the Earth’s vibrations, giving people the ability to truly observe, LIVE from their own computers, unseen vibrations happening all around them, as well as the big ones that really shake things up. For any device to measure such a range of motion and cost so little, is HUGE!

The Earth is always moving and these constant yet subtle changes can affect everyone in more ways than most people dare imagine, the more serious ones hitting the news with increasing frequency. These movements are no longer limited to just “natural” movements such as sinkholes, landslides and earthquakes. Human factors are becoming increasingly more apparent with quarry explosions, nuclear blast testing, deep well waste water injection and fracking, processes that have impacted many peoples friends and relatives directly. Recently the Oklahoma Geological Survey, a hotbed of human-induced earthquakes, acquired 100 Raspberry Shakes for this very reason!

“We first learned about the Raspberry Shake during their Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in 2016. We were looking around for small, inexpensive, seismic sensors that we could distribute throughout Oklahoma, and it just made sense. I didn’t actually get hooked until I started playing with one, and how easy it was to set up.” – Jefferson Chang, Geophysical Operations Manager at Oklahoma Geological Survey

“The Raspberry Shake 4D is so sensitive that there is always something to see, even the fun stuff that you never thought possible – Like rush hour traffic, cheering crowds at a local concert or football game, and even noisy neighbors with thin walls!” says Branden Christensen the CEO of OSOP, the company that builds the Raspberry Shake.

Ángel Rodríguez, the creator of the Raspberry Shake, observed, “for the Raspberry Shake 4D, we went back to the drawing board. We quadrupled the input sensors from the original and doubled the output. Now it is possible to see double the range of vibrations across all dimensions (laterally and vertically) making the 4D the most powerful personal seismograph in existence.”

The device itself is a clever combination of technologies and the creators have already sold previous versions to professional institutes around the globe, including the United States Geological Society (USGS). It conveniently fits right onto the Raspberry Pi, the most popular single-board personal computer in the tech world. This incorporation was a brilliant move. Not only did it allow for the lowering of the product and development costs, but it also allowed the company to tap into the tech market of Raspberry Pi. Thousands of tech enthusiasts use the Raspberry Pi and, because of its low-price point, many are left lying around collecting dust – Now people can put them to good use with an awesome Raspberry Pi project to monitor earthquakes.

The measurement and analysis of earthquakes has always been reserved for institutes or government organizations with enough money to afford the expensive monitoring equipment. After their last Kickstarter campaign, the team quickly realized that, “not only had we attracted Citizen Seismologists, but also a huge number of people who were environmentally aware or just loved new technologies or gadgets and wanted a ‘Home Science’ solution” said Ángel.

Their latest product, the Raspberry Shake 4D, is being launched on Kickstarter right now and is designed to reach a wider audience. It features a number of hardware improvements as well as multiple additions to functionality for advanced users and a brand-new interface, so that even the novice can easily use the device.

The Raspberry Shake 4D certainly ticks all the boxes for citizen scientists, programmers and gadget lovers making it the Ultimate IOT tech device for the next generation of Home Science Automated Monitoring.

Get access to the Raspberry Shake 4D exclusively on Kickstarter and take advantage of the huge discounts on offer while they are still available. Visit the Raspberry Shake website at raspberryshake.org.

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Contact Info:
Name: The Raspberry Shake Team
Email: sales@raspberryshake.org
Organization: OSOP
Address: Main Street, Volcán, Chiriquí 0402, Panama

For more information, please visit http://www.raspberryshake.org

Source: PressCable

Release ID: 219586