I can put this together with one of those little battery powered LED pico projectors and then attach it to my robot.
How else is it going to tell Obi Wan that he's our only hope?
Ask HN: Raspberry Pi Startup Ideas
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#32A lot of the uses listed are cool, and seem worthwhile - but I thought the point of Raspberry Pi was to provide affordable computers for educational purposes? NAS, Gaming, Home automation, and other GuruPlug-type solutions are awesome. These would be great projects offering a lot of fun and inspirational documentaries. Nonetheless, I think a focus on the educational side is appropriate. How about: * Sites offering RP…
What you say is good and true, but it's important to remember that even behind the subsidization aspect others allude to, more uses of RasPi -> more things the child receiving it can do -> more appealing the device will be in his eyes -> dedicate more time educating himself using it. (him/her of course)
At least that was the general theme of my computer usage as a kid. Games were fun, but they also drew me to spend more time and educate myself about "controlling the beast".
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#33If you're doing any form of traning, put the complete development/whatever environment on a computer and give it away as part of the course. Make a business setting up pre-packaged environments for various courses and fulfilling orders for training companies. etc etc.
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#34Hotel room pc connected to the tv, for webmail etc.
Either brought by yourself, or supplied by the hotel
/ld
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#35I want a Raspberry Pi in an AppleTV-like black case, and I'll pay $99 for that, delivered in a beautiful box. Apple has shown that a box like that sells like hotcakes but they won't do it for a low-price computer device or will lose the nice profits of the mac mini. So here, a R-Pi in a beautiful case and box for $99.
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#36A lot of the uses listed are cool, and seem worthwhile - but I thought the point of Raspberry Pi was to provide affordable computers for educational purposes? NAS, Gaming, Home automation, and other GuruPlug-type solutions are awesome. These would be great projects offering a lot of fun and inspirational documentaries. Nonetheless, I think a focus on the educational side is appropriate. How about: * Sites offering RP…
What you say is good and true, but it's important to remember that even behind the subsidization aspect others allude to, more uses of RasPi -> more things the child receiving it can do -> more appealing the device will be in his eyes -> dedicate more time educating himself using it. (him/her of course) At least that was the general theme of my computer usage as a kid. Games were fun, but they also drew me to spend m…
I definitely agree, and I probably didn't qualify my statements enough. I just wanted to highlight some caution because a lot of times hackers want to really push hardware and technology to its limits. This is great, but to a newcomer, I think some of these projects can be so challenging that they end up driving users away.
It's a valid point that having example uses/projects that cover the widest possible array of options is ideal for inspiring the most use.
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#37You could build small supercomputers with clusters of Raspberry Pis.
Design a chassis for several dozen Raspberry Pis, and package them with software for doing numerical analysis, statistical analysis, graphics rendering, OLAP cubes.
There's a huge enterprise market for small supercomputers that run SAS for data crunching. You could tap into this market, packaging your units with comparable open source software.
Example here: http://www.falcon-nw.com/desktops
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#38A cheap NAS made from a Raspberry Pi model B (the Ethernet one) and an off-the-shelf USB external HDD.
Something like this? http://www.amazon.com/Addonics-NASU2-NAS-Adapter/dp/B001OC5J... At around $50, might be cheaper to go with this. Unless you are implementing the NAS just because it can be done :-)
I have a modified Seagate Dockstar[1][2] and I'm using it with an external HDD, but I think it would be cheaper using a modified NetGear Stora[3] that has 2 SAS ports than using more than one USB external HDDs (with a dockstar or a Raspberry Pi).
I think more interesting applications are in those field in which you can take advantage of the video HDMI port and the IO ports..
[1] http://ahsoftware.de/dockstar/
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#39Relatively hack-proof internet interface for wifi security cameras. If someone breaks into the house and steals all my gear (including the cameras), at least I wouldn't be losing another $2-400 PC.
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#40A lot of the uses listed are cool, and seem worthwhile - but I thought the point of Raspberry Pi was to provide affordable computers for educational purposes? NAS, Gaming, Home automation, and other GuruPlug-type solutions are awesome. These would be great projects offering a lot of fun and inspirational documentaries. Nonetheless, I think a focus on the educational side is appropriate. How about: * Sites offering RP…
It's a valid point of view, but I don't think that should be restrictive. They said in the blog that the intention is to subsidize and enable educational uses by making it available for everyone and all kinds of projects. The educational package is coming in September.
True, and thanks for pointing it out. I'd just note that they seem to have their hands full at the moment, and I think documentation and teaching utilities will be lacking.
The motivated and inspired will still be able to thrive, but the under-funded school may only be able to use what is easily available - and it seems like a good hacker-crowd-sourced batch of instructions could easily dwarf whatever they are planning to provide.