Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?

Posted by otium on Sunday May 26, 2013 @04:10PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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?

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Re:Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI? by lifeguard on Sunday May 26, 2013 @05:06PM (#5772432)

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/

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Re:Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI? by deadfall on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @02:58PM (#5781922)

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

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Re:Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI? by durum on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:58AM (#5854343)

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/

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Re:Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI? by bayesianhorse on Sunday May 26, 2013 @04:23PM (#5772310)

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)

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Re:Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI? by TobbenTM on Sunday May 26, 2013 @11:59PM (#5773364)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI? by jacquesm on Sunday May 26, 2013 @04:44PM (#5772359)

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...

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Re:Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI? by cadalac on Monday May 27, 2013 @01:26AM (#5773561)

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

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