Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?

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by otium • 13 years ago

12 7 13 years ago

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I purchased a Raspberry PI a while back, and have yet to do anything with it besides make an LED light blink. Are there any interesting projects to attempt?

bayesianhorse• 13 years ago

Some ideas I had: * record your snoring patterns over night * capture webcam images over long periods of time * track wlan devices in the vicinity * use it as a low-distraction terminal * network-accessed storage * use it to train a parrot (microphone to detect tunes, treat dispenser or LEDs for reinforcement)

jacquesm• 13 years ago

Make it the center of your new home brew cruise missile or octocopter (heavy though), turn it into a really snazzy media player, build a gantry mill and use the PI to control it. So many ideas, so little time...

lifeguard• 13 years ago

Make a car computer to log ODBII data (post 1996 cars).

http://www.thinkythings.org/obdii/

http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/obdsim

http://freediag.sourceforge.net/

deadfall• 13 years ago

Wow, awesome, this has never run through my mind. Thanks for the info.

durum• 13 years ago

Apparently my new account won't let me reply to the OP, so I'll add it here.

Hackaday's RPi projects:

http://hackaday.com/tag/rpi/

TobbenTM• 13 years ago

Something I have done recently: read bandwidth consumption off the firewall and use the Raspberry Pi to control two tachometers to show the bandwidth at all times. Haven't quite nailed the tachometer frequency generation, but I'm close.

cadalac• 13 years ago

What about trying to make a very basic functioning OS kernel?

Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?

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