Ask HN: Raspberry Pi Startup Ideas

Post by Habbie7 » Thu, Mar 01, 2012, 12:23 PM UTC

yitchelle wrote: post #14

alyrik wrote: post #2

A 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 :-)

Post by herval » Sat, Mar 03, 2012, 4:54 PM UTC

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #24

I 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.

Post by mwmnj » Sun, Mar 04, 2012, 2:17 AM UTC

catalinist wrote: post #48

Since it's so cheap it will be very easy to build a cluster of this little things and start computing in prarallel. Since I'm also attending Udacity CS 101, where you learn to build your own search engine, I'm dreaming about a data center full of raspberry pi's crawling the web :)