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Re:CHIP Pro by geppetto on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @08:42AM (#12692271)
Same feeling here... I hardly get excited with all the pointless/because-I-can projects based on these boards. It's fun, OK, but that's all.

Anyway I use Arduino a lot to teach electronics in high school - really useful there - and a Cubieboard (think RPi with SATA and decent eth) as webserver (small sites via home DSL).

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Re:CHIP Pro by FullyFunctional on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @02:02PM (#12695155)
I appreciate this, but here are a few actually-useful (to my family) that I have committed and that are still in use today:

- a Growatt -> pvoutput.org data extractor/uploader (w/C.H.I.P.)

- a MAME Arcade (Raspberry Pi 2)

- ISS Above tracker (Raspberry Pi 2) ()

- My main SSH gateway and Seafile server (Raspberry Pi 2)

I may finish my Espresso PID/controller this year (Rascillio Silvia) (Raspberry Pi 3)

() ISS Above is amazing for engaging my kids and myself in Astronomy. EDIT: formatting

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