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 ✨. No Ph.D. required 🧑‍🎓.

✨ Overview

You want to make the world a better place for future generations 🌱?

From 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 🏠.

So let's start contributing 💪!

✅ 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

🪄 Installation

1️⃣ Download the latest image of Scitizen OS on the Release page

2️⃣ 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 👏! You have successfully installed Scitizen OS on your micro-SD card 🥳.

3️⃣ Insert your micro-SD card into your Raspberry Pi, and power it up 🔋. Depending on your internet connection, it could take up to 10 minutes to fully boot ⏳.

4️⃣ If your Raspberry Pi is not connected to the Internet via ethernet 🔌

• 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.

5️⃣ 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.

5️⃣ bis: You have more than one device to share with the world 🌎? No problem 🤗.

Just go to http://scitizen-2.local, http://scitizen-3.local, etc... to see the contribution of all your devices.

✨ 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

🤝 Contributing

Thanks for helping Scitizen reaching more people and being more stable and user friendly ✨.

To contribute, please see our contribution guidelines.

🙏 Acknowledgement

First 🥇, we wanted to thanks the Raspberry Pi Foundations for creating devices as awesome as the Raspberry Pis.

Second 🥈, we wanted to thanks the Berkeley University of California 🏫 for creating BOINC and for sharing it with the whole world 🌏.

Third 🥉, we wanted to thanks all the community behind BOINC and all the projects available on it to make the world a better place 🌱.

💌 Contacts

If you need help and/or have a question on Scitizen, please open-up an issue on the Github repository.

📚 License

Scitizen is under the Apache 2 license.