DIY ideas for Raspberry Pi?

Since the Raspberry Pi will be with us soon-ish (well, about six weeks I am told, for mine) does anyone have any interesting ideas about what they might do with it/them?

I've heard of car computers, TV boxes, PBCes as ideas...

Reply to
Bob Eager
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PBC => PBX

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Bob Eager

a micro low power NAS

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Reply to
Mark

All of that I can do with a nicely cased repurposed thin client PC. And there are thousands of those scrapped at prices next to nothing.

I think (but hope not) a number of them are destined to a place in a lonely drawer shared with long lost dusty socks and broken iPods...

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Adrian C

of which I have several but they are watt graspers unlike the pi - already have 3 lower power media players, a low power NAS - home monitoring server with internet access .........

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Ghostrecon

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Reply to
geoff

Well, the RP has a quarter of a gigabyte of memory and a reasonably powerful CPU. And a place to attach keyboard, mouse and display. So it's a bit more than a development board.

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Bob Eager

Angle grinder speed controler, duct tape/WD40 dispenser, combi boiler quantity calculator.

Reply to
The Other Mike

It's still boggling my brain how many people seem to have bought one and have absolutely no clue what they're actually going to do with it. Was the marketing hype really *that* good?

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Jules Richardson

Well, start here.... first we need a case.

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Adrian C

discussion here.

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Bob Eager

It maybe needs something like this to make it a decent toy -

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Reply to
brass monkey

Or is the price simply that low? It's almost disposable - so why not get one then worry about what to do with it?

(yes, I know the answer - it adds to the house full of crap, which is why I won't be getting one till I think of something useful :-) )

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Clive George

I'm not quite sure what the purpose of this machine is. Low cost? Once you've added a monitor, keyboard, mouse, memory (and a PSU?), it won't be far from the cost of a netbook. (Edit: just seen that it plugs into a TV. Still, you need a spare TV...)

And what's special about it that it took six years to develop? (I used to build prototype computer boards in a week or so.)

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BartC

Yebut, you have to make allowances, t'was "designed" by bods at a Uni, says it all, really.

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brass monkey

How about for applications where you don't need a monitor, keyboard, mouse, extra memory? Think automation, control, robots, etc.

The cost is probably what's special about it. There's a lot of work in there, probably a significant amount being negotiation rather than simply technical.

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Clive George

000, Bob Eager wrote:

Sounds ike one of Acorns earlier efforts, took em on to the BBC Micro and Risc which brings full circle to the RP...

Which involved half a day of typing to shoot a full stop from an inverted V at traveling X`s...

If you were lucky had a C2N or , now highly collectable small keyboard PET with the built in cassette drive, the seriously rich had the 8" shugart floppy.

Been a while since you looked at current dev kits, Arduino has taken off in a big way, with even GUI based programming methods aimed at the under 10`s, getting a stepper motor moving is a plug in` shield` and bolt together `sketch` of code...

Rasperry PI has onboarrd keyboard mouse and probably crucially HDMI out, it costs the same as cheap video card but has the rest of the P.C. attached, can see it gaining big traction in markets where networked screens are used...

Extra I/O in similar format is an obvious aftermarket.

Cheers Adam

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Adam Aglionby

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already has some of that onboard IIRC...

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John Rumm

That reminds me, must phone CPC and tell em that I really did want one, that is why I ordered it!

Media streamer would be one obvious one.

Home automation / monitoring and instrumenting would be a nice option.

Souped up lego mindstorm controller

One could no a nice retro system emulation and build the whole thing into a joystick etc.

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John Rumm

Kind of reminds me of Uncle clive and his use the zx 81 to control a nuclear power station ideas. The point I think is to get people to learn the language of python or however its spelled. Its very powerful, but not that intuitive like a good basic could provide to get the kids sucked in. Brian

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Brian Gaff

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