Hi!
Just curious about what people were planning on using their Raspberry Pi's for once they started getting them!??
Current plan- SFF Media PC / NAS etc mounted onto the VESA on the back of my TV
Later plan- Replace car stereo etc with RPi
Probably not the most origional use there but still, godda start somewhere!
Richard Jarrett wrote:
Hi!
Just curious about what people were planning on using their Raspberry Pi's for once they started getting them!??
Although I could only order one Pi at the moment, I've got plans to get a few more soon. This is what I plan to use them for:
1) I want to build a small "game station" for my kids. A device that boots up and displays a menu of open source games that they can then play on the TV. I've written a few games myself that I know will be able to run on a device like this and I've collected a bunch more that I hope will run fine once I've got the device. I've also written a menu system for this and are currently looking for game controllers/joysticks/whatever that I can plug in and use (working out of the box would be nice, but if I have to write a driver first that's not neccessarily an obstacle - suggestions welcome).
2) I want to use one to replace my Fit-PC Slim (the first model), that currently serves as my web and mail server. While the Fit-PC is nice and small and draws little power, it still draws a lot more than a RaspPi. And since I only have 10Mbit downstream bandwith and 2Mbit upstream bandwith and ~300 visitors to my website a month and email is at most a couple hundred messages a day from LKML etc, a RaspPi should be able to do that job just fine and save me a bit of power.
3) One RaspPi will be used as a family media center (yeah, boooring, but it's cheap, it runs Linux, it draws little power and it can do the job, so why not).
4) I need one additional RaspPi just for general hacking/experimenting and since it's a ARM chip that is Bi-Endian it's going to be a cool little box to test my own software on for endianness issues - deffinately going to run it in big endian mode since my main development machine is little endian.. Hope to catch a few bugs by testing stuff on a Pi 
5) I want to get one or two for my parents, set up with a basic Linux desktop that can just do web browsing, email and very basic word-processing/printing since that's all they use their PC's for... If I can switch them to RaspPi's for their very basic use they will save a lot of power, save a lot of space (for the huge PC's they currently own) and hopefully have an environment that I can actually be bothered to help them with.
6) I haven't thought of more uses yet (well, I have some ideas (mainly about controlling house temperature, lighting etc, building a robot with my son, that kind of thing...), but nothing solid yet) - but I probably will buy an extra Pi just for the hell of it since something is bound to show up as "a project" and they are so cheap that even if I can't find a use for the last one I can just use it as a gift or something and be pleased that I supported the foundation in a small way :-) Their goals kick ass - we need more young people with hard-core tech skills - I'd buy 10 Raspberry Pi's just to support that!
Richard Jarrett wrote:
Hi!
Just curious about what people were planning on using their Raspberry Pi's for once they started getting them!??
Although I could only order one Pi at the moment, I've got plans to get a few more soon. This is what I plan to use them for:
1) I want to build a small "game station" for my kids. A device that boots up and displays a menu of open source games that they can then play on the TV. I've written a few games myself that I know will be able to run on a device like this and I've collected a bunch more that I hope will run fine once I've got the device. I've also written a menu system for this and are currently looking for game controllers/joysticks/whatever that I can plug in and use (working out of the box would be nice, but if I have to write a driver first that's not neccessarily an obstacle - suggestions welcome).
2) I want to use one to replace my Fit-PC Slim (the first model), that currently serves as my web and mail server. While the Fit-PC is nice and small and draws little power, it still draws a lot more than a RaspPi. And since I only have 10Mbit downstream bandwith and 2Mbit upstream bandwith and ~300 visitors to my website a month and email is at most a couple hundred messages a day from LKML etc, a RaspPi should be able to do that job just fine and save me a bit of power.
3) One RaspPi will be used as a family media center (yeah, boooring, but it's cheap, it runs Linux, it draws little power and it can do the job, so why not).
4) I need one additional RaspPi just for general hacking/experimenting and since it's a ARM chip that is Bi-Endian it's going to be a cool little box to test my own software on for endianness issues - deffinately going to run it in big endian mode since my main development machine is little endian.. Hope to catch a few bugs by testing stuff on a Pi
5) I want to get one or two for my parents, set up with a basic Linux desktop that can just do web browsing, email and very basic word-processing/printing since that's all they use their PC's for... If I can switch them to RaspPi's for their very basic use they will save a lot of power, save a lot of space (for the huge PC's they currently own) and hopefully have an environment that I can actually be bothered to help them with.
6) I haven't thought of more uses yet (well, I have some ideas (mainly about controlling house temperature, lighting etc, building a robot with my son, that kind of thing...), but nothing solid yet) - but I probably will buy an extra Pi just for the hell of it since something is bound to show up as "a project" and they are so cheap that even if I can't find a use for the last one I can just use it as a gift or something and be pleased that I supported the foundation in a small way :-) Their goals kick ass - we need more young people with hard-core tech skills - I'd buy 10 Raspberry Pi's just to support that!
