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?
Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?
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Re: Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?
#2Some 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)
Re: Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?
#3Make 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...
Re: Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?
#4Make a car computer to log ODBII data (post 1996 cars).
http://www.thinkythings.org/obdii/
Re: Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?
#5Something 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.
Re: Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?
#6What about trying to make a very basic functioning OS kernel?
Re: Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?
#7Something 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?
#8Something 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.
That would be a cool setup. I might try it, are you using automotive tachometers or just a digital one? Automotive ones would look pretty sweet! And by firewall do you mean your local router?
Re: Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?
#9Make a car computer to log ODBII data (post 1996 cars). http://www.thinkythings.org/obdii/ http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/obdsim http://freediag.sourceforge.net/
Wow, awesome, this has never run through my mind. Thanks for the info.
Re: Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?
#10Make a car computer to log ODBII data (post 1996 cars). http://www.thinkythings.org/obdii/ http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/obdsim http://freediag.sourceforge.net/
Wow, awesome, this has never run through my mind. Thanks for the info.
Apparently my new account won't let me reply to the OP, so I'll add it here.
Hackaday's RPi projects: