The BIG Idea

Have you ever been in the middle of doing something and have the terrifying thought of…

The idea of who left the stove on is where the idea for my Raspberry Pi has originated.  I live in a sorority house with 39 other women and as you can imagine, accountability is sometimes an issue.  We have the problem of our stove not being turned off probably averaging about once a week, but we never know who the culprit is in order to take care of the problem.  The stove sometimes runs throughout the evening and causes an immense safety issue in which my venture could solve.

Using a Raspberry Pi, heat sensor, and webcam, I would program the Raspberry Pi to somehow turn on when the temperature reached above a certain heat and then the webcam would turn on to record either via video or picture snapshots.  Obviously, the logistics of accomplishing the idea are still in the works, but if all goes well, it would be possible to figure out who leaves the stove on and correct the potential safety hazard.  Below further explains where I have obtained the passion for the idea I have chosen, as displayed in my Super Hunch Sketch Pad.

            I have been playing with the Pi this weekend to try and get the Webcam to work and stream to an alternate source such as my Mac or using an app on my iPhone, but unfortunately no success just yet!  Hopefully, this step will be up and running before the weekend comes to a close.

            Thanks for stopping by to read about my idea and feel free to leave and comments/feedback/suggestions you may have!

Strengths

Welcome to my Raspberry Pi Ventures Blog!  Follow me throughout my IS 492: Technology Ventures course as I work through the world of a Raspberry Pi.  For this particular post, I will be taking a deeper look into my strengths because those will eventually have an affect on what I choose to do with my Raspberry Pi.

Sometimes it is hard to identify what our strengths are because most of us are very humble people and don’t give ourselves enough credit for things we are good at.  Thankfully though, there are assessments in place to tell us things that we are good at!  In a few of my management courses as well as my internship this past summer, personality testing was very common and relevant.  With my internship at a consulting firm I completed an Everything DiSC personality assessment in which I found out I was a “C” which stands for Conscientiousness.  The strengths that go along with this type are traits such as: analytical, logical, precise, reliable, and systematic.  I believe all of these characteristics describe me pretty well and are definitely influential in my IS work.

Besides the detailed profile that DiSC provides, I took a generic strengths test that I found online at www.richardstep.com which gave me my top five strengths after answering 70+ questions.  According to this assessment, my top strengths are self-motivation (100%), integrity (94%), balance (88%), passion (81%), and leadership (81%).  I enjoyed this test because it also gave me the following traits with percentages which shows me what I can improve upon:

• Teamwork (75%):
• Strategic Thinking (75%):
• Communication (75%):
• Adaptability (75%):
• Optimism (69%):
• Focus (69%):
• Purpose (69%):
• Determination (63%):
• Innovation (56%):
• Curiosity (56%):
• Visionary (50%):
• Ambition (50%):
• Problem Solving (50%):
• Salesmanship (50%):
• Resourcefulness (44%):

Unfortunately, my greatest weakness also came out of this test which was risk taking at 38%.  This may definitely be something that I will have to work on overcoming because as most of us know, the entrepreneurial mindset calls for some risk taking!  I am excited to start my Raspberry Pi adventure and hope you are along for the ride as well!  As stated before, sometimes it's hard to know what our strengths are, but as Nike puts it "Greatness is wherever somebody is trying to find it." #findgreatness