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No Ph.D. required 🧑‍🎓.**\n\n## ✨ Overview\n\nYou want to make the world a better place for future generations 🌱?\n\nFrom computing molecules interactions for biomedical and environmental research 🧬, analyzing pictures took by astronomical space telescopes to find a new home for humanity 🔭, piercing the secrets of quantum physics by improving the design of the Large Hadron Collider 🧲, you can do it all from home 🏠.\n\nSo let's start contributing 💪!\n\n![Scitizen Appp](docs/assets/scitizen.gif)\n\n## ✅ Prerequisites\n\n* A [Raspberry Pi](https://www.raspberrypi.org/) 3/4 device (1 GB RAM at least is recommended)\n* A micro-SD card (32 GB at least is recommended)\n* [Balena Etcher](https://www.balena.io/etcher/) downloaded and installed on your workstation\n* An ethernet cable and/or a Wi-Fi network name and password\n\n## 🪄 Installation\n\n1️⃣ Download the latest image of Scitizen OS on the [Release page](https://github.com/pcorbel/scitizen/releases)\n\n2️⃣ Open BalenaEtcher\n\n* Click on the `Flash from file` button.\n* Select the Scitizen OS image file you downloaded in 1️⃣.\n* Click on the `Select target` button.\n* Select your micro-SD card.\n* Click on the `Flash!` button.\n* Wait for the image to be written and verified.\n* Congratulations 👏! You have successfully installed Scitizen OS on your micro-SD card 🥳.\n\n![Flash it tutorial](docs/assets/flash-it.gif)\n\n3️⃣ Insert your micro-SD card into your Raspberry Pi, and power it up 🔋.\nDepending on your internet connection, it could take up to 10 minutes to fully boot ⏳.\n\n![Power it up tutorial](docs/assets/power-it-up.gif)\n\n4️⃣ If your Raspberry Pi is **not** connected to the Internet via ethernet 🔌\n\n* A Wi-Fi hotspot named `Scitizen` will appear on your network list (computer or smartphone)\n* Connect to it (there is no password)\n* While connected to it, open [http://192.168.42.1:8000](http://192.168.42.1:8000)\n* Select your Wi-Fi network name (SSID), enter the passphrase and click on `Connect`.\n\n5️⃣ On a computer 💻 on the same network (i.e. Modem / Wi-Fi) than the Raspberry Pi, open in your browser the URL `http://scitizen.local`.\n\n5️⃣ bis: You have more than one device to share with the world 🌎? No problem 🤗.\n\nJust go to `http://scitizen-2.local`, `http://scitizen-3.local`, etc... to see the contribution of all your devices.\n\n## ✨ Usage\n\n### [scitizen.local/projects](http://scitizen.local/projects)\n\nChoose the projects you want to contribute to\n\n![Projects](docs/assets/scitizen-local-1.png)\n\n### [scitizen.local/tasks](http://scitizen.local/tasks)\n\nCheck the tasks that you contributed to\n\n![Tasks](docs/assets/scitizen-local-2.png)\n\n### [scitizen.local/devices](http://scitizen.local/devices)\n\nCheck data on your device\n\n![Devices](docs/assets/scitizen-local-3.png)\n\n## 🤝 Contributing\n\nThanks for helping Scitizen reaching more people and being more stable and user friendly ✨.\n\nTo contribute, please see our [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).\n\n## 🙏 Acknowledgement\n\nFirst 🥇, we wanted to thanks the Raspberry Pi Foundations for creating devices as awesome as the Raspberry Pis.\n\nSecond 🥈, we wanted to thanks the Berkeley University of California 🏫 for creating [BOINC](https://github.com/BOINC/boinc) and for sharing it with the whole world 🌏.\n\nThird 🥉, we wanted to thanks all the community behind BOINC and all the projects available on it to make the world a better place 🌱.\n\n## 💌 Contacts\n\nIf you need help and/or have a question on Scitizen, please open-up an issue on the Github [repository](https://github.com/pcorbel/scitizen/issues).\n\n## 📚 License\n\nScitizen is under the [Apache 2](./LICENSE) license.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpcorbel%2Fscitizen","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fpcorbel%2Fscitizen","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpcorbel%2Fscitizen/lists"}