diff --git a/function/Dockerfile.armhf b/function/Dockerfile.armhf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a6a5b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/function/Dockerfile.armhf
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+ARG RASPBIAN_VERSION=stretch
+FROM resin/rpi-raspbian:$RASPBIAN_VERSION
+
+# update apt
+RUN apt-get update \
+	&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends apt-utils \
+	# install necessary build tools \
+	&& apt-get -qy install build-essential cmake pkg-config unzip wget make \
+	# install necessary libraries \
+	&& apt-get -qy install \
+		libgtk2.0-dev \
+		libgtk-3-dev \
+		libatlas-base-dev \
+		gfortran \
+		python2.7-dev \
+		python3-dev \
+		python-pip \
+		python-numpy \
+		python3-pip \
+		python3-numpy \
+        python3-markdown \
+        python3-networkx \
+        python3-h5py \
+        python3-lxml \
+        python3-matplotlib \
+        python3-protobuf \
+        python3-dateutil \
+        python3-scipy \
+        python3-six \
+		libraspberrypi0 \
+		python-setuptools \
+		python3-setuptools \
+	# cleanup apt. \
+	&& apt-get purge -y --auto-remove \
+	&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+WORKDIR /root/
+
+COPY requirements.txt ./
+
+RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+
+RUN wget https://storage.googleapis.com/download.tensorflow.org/deps/pi/2018_03_22/tensorflow-1.6.0-cp35-none-any.whl 
+RUN pip3 install tensorflow-1.6.0-cp35-none-any.whl 
+
+ENV TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL=3
+COPY *.py ./
+
+RUN python3 ./pre_download.py
+
+RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/openfaas/faas/releases/download/0.7.0/fwatchdog-armhf > /usr/bin/fwatchdog \
+    && chmod +x /usr/bin/fwatchdog
+
+ENV write_debug="true"
+ENV fprocess="python3 index.py"
+
+CMD ["fwatchdog"]
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diff --git a/function/inception.py b/function/inception.py
index f2a9935..b960a8a 100644
--- a/function/inception.py
+++ b/function/inception.py
@@ -585,5 +585,5 @@ def invoke(body):
 ########################################################################
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-	print(invoke())
+	print(invoke(os.path.join(data_dir, 'cropped_panda.jpg')))
 
diff --git a/function/pre_download.py b/function/pre_download.py
index 899406d..465a9b8 100644
--- a/function/pre_download.py
+++ b/function/pre_download.py
@@ -10,13 +10,7 @@
 # Copyright 2016 by Magnus Erik Hvass Pedersen
 #
 ########################################################################
-import json
-import numpy as np
-import tensorflow as tf
 import download
-from cache import cache
-import os
-import sys
 
 ########################################################################
 # Various directories and file-names.
diff --git a/function/requirements.txt b/function/requirements.txt
index bbeb669..c9b5f45 100644
--- a/function/requirements.txt
+++ b/function/requirements.txt
@@ -13,20 +13,27 @@
 # want to install the CPU or GPU version of TensorFlow.
 #
 ################################################################
+# Wheel needs to be installed directly for tensorflow installation to work
+wheel
+
+
 # Basic packages used in many of the tutorials.
+# using apt for some like numpy and scipy, others skipping for the inception POC
 
-numpy
-scipy
-jupyter
-matplotlib
-Pillow
-scikit-learn
+# numpy
+# scipy
+# jupyter
+# matplotlib
+# Pillow
+# scikit-learn
 
 ################################################################
 # TensorFlow can be installed either as CPU or GPU versions.
 # You select which one to install by (un)commenting these lines.
 
-tensorflow		# CPU Version of TensorFlow.
+# install with wheel file inside Dockerfile.armhf instead
+
+# tensorflow		# CPU Version of TensorFlow.
 # tensorflow-gpu	# GPU version of TensorFlow.
 
 # Builder API for TensorFlow used in many of the tutorials.
@@ -43,3 +50,6 @@ prettytensor
 http_parser
 
 requests
+
+# version locked tensorflow dependency
+grpcio==1.9.1
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