Scan2Cloud There was a need to send good quality prints/scans of documents to a cloud location without much user interaction. Applicable use-cases would be say: send prescriptions, bills, invoice from the front desk etc. It has to be simple and should be easily operable by laymen. There are many such scanners which provide a similar funtionality but they are limited in their function. Many of these scanners are reasonably expensive, upwards of 15K INR. Also a drawback with handheld devices is that there is possibility of a camera shake, lighting, document alignment etc and hence the picture might not be properly taken. A flatbed scanner does not have any of these issues. So to provide a remote scan trigger and also a simplified user scan function, a device was created as shown in the picture above. Some bit of testing was required to find a suitable scanner for this SBC. Also given that there was some experience in builiding an RPi with an enclosure that had buttons and RGB LEDs, ...
I have been using Raspberry Pis for a long time now. Used many of the commercially available cases. RPis can be run headless (without a display) or an HDMI/SPI display can be used. There are many cases that are available for the 5" displays, etc. But it would definitely be nice to have small display with maybe an LED and touch support. Say like the commonly available 16x2 char displays and a WS2812B led and a button. This led me to search for a similar thing on the Internet and finally to a ThingSurf. Found this: Design on Printables webiste for a Raspberry PI 4 with display . The Design is by user guytas on printables and already had all the things I needed. This was locally printed on a Creality Ender. The 16x2 display fit nicely. But as there was a need for an RGB did some "jugaad" and fitted an RGB Led below the button hole and a couple of capacitive sense buttons below the casing. Wrote a small program to showcase all of the features. The program shows...