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Scitizen – Help scientific research for the benefit of mankind and humanity
Scitizen has been built from the ground up to give everyone the possibility to contribute to scientific research
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. No Ph.D. required
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Overview
You want to make the world a better place for future generations
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From computing molecules interactions for biomedical and environmental research
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, analyzing pictures took by astronomical space telescopes to find a new home for humanity
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, piercing the secrets of quantum physics by improving the design of the Large Hadron Collider
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, you can do it all from home
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So let’s start contributing
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!
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Prerequisites
- A Raspberry Pi 3/4 device (1 GB RAM at least is recommended)
- A micro-SD card (32 GB at least is recommended)
- Balena Etcher downloaded and installed on your workstation
- An ethernet cable and/or a Wi-Fi network name and password
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Installation
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Download the latest image of Scitizen OS on the Release page
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Open BalenaEtcher
- Click on the
Flash from file
button. - Select the Scitizen OS image file you downloaded in
1️⃣
. - Click on the
Select target
button. - Select your micro-SD card.
- Click on the
Flash!
button. - Wait for the image to be written and verified.
- Congratulations
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! You have successfully installed Scitizen OS on your micro-SD card
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3️⃣
Insert your micro-SD card into your Raspberry Pi, and power it up
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. Depending on your internet connection, it could take up to 10 minutes to fully boot
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If your Raspberry Pi is not connected to the Internet via ethernet
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- A Wi-Fi hotspot named
Scitizen
will appear on your network list (computer or smartphone) - Connect to it (there is no password)
- While connected to it, open http://192.168.42.1:8000
- Select your Wi-Fi network name (SSID), enter the passphrase and click on
Connect
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On a computer
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on the same network (i.e. Modem / Wi-Fi) than the Raspberry Pi, open in your browser the URL http://scitizen.local
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bis: You have more than one device to share with the world
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Just go to http://scitizen-2.local
, http://scitizen-3.local
, etc… to see the contribution of all your devices.
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Usage
scitizen.local/projects
Choose the projects you want to contribute to
scitizen.local/tasks
Check the tasks that you contributed to
scitizen.local/devices
Check data on your device
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Contributing
Thanks for helping Scitizen reaching more people and being more stable and user friendly
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To contribute, please see our contribution guidelines.
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Acknowledgement
First
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, we wanted to thanks the Raspberry Pi Foundations for creating devices as awesome as the Raspberry Pis.
Second
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, we wanted to thanks the Berkeley University of California
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for creating BOINC and for sharing it with the whole world
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Third
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, we wanted to thanks all the community behind BOINC and all the projects available on it to make the world a better place
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Contacts
If you need help and/or have a question on Scitizen, please open-up an issue on the Github repository.
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License
Scitizen is under the Apache 2 license.