What's Your Pi Plan??

Aiming to create a fully capable portable PC, equipped with two 1(or 2) watt speakers, webcam/mic and 7" LCD display.

Case is to be made entirely of oak wood or medium-density fibreboard (MDF), depending on various factors.

Equipping it with a mini 40x40x20 heatsink/fan combo.

Aiming to get the case sorted as soon as I get to stick my fingers in that sweeeeet Raspberry Pi...

Thinking to power it up with a solar cell 6V 500mA (3W) solar panel. Could powering RPi with solar cell be too risky to the chip or the whole system itself?

My plan is just to get hold of one and see waht it will do but, so far, I have failed to place an order

Car Computer - ready made 7" screen in my dash for it

Also - one of these taped to the back of MicroProjector would be the ultimate portable movie device

I'm looking to use this to replace a laptop that I'm using to run a specific Java app. The app, called J/MRI is used to control and setup various parameters of the DCC components in model trains. At this point, I have a traveling system that I carry around to exhibitions and use to setup peoples' models. The laptop, being a laptop, is portable, and I'm always worried that it may grow legs and walk. The Pi could be built into my travel case fairly easily, along with a small keyboard, mouse and a little monitor. At least, that's the thought.

Interesting idea, I've been wondering about Java, too.  I'm concerned the architecture and RAM might be a problem. 

It seems like a lot of the knowledge about Raspberry Pi is in their forum which unfortunately is still down (due to the launch).  I did find this in Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1ujhw7JtsecJ:www.raspberrypi.org/forum/general-discussion/good-news-on-the-arm-java-front+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Cheers,

Drew

shame its not that little bit smaller so it'll fit inside an OO/HO loco - now that would be awesome

Would hopefully like to see a case for it but...usb hub with a mini usb wifi dongle, keyboard and mouse. Fairly large usb drive to store my media and stuff. Maybe just go with an external hard drive but I don't want to overpower the RPi, anyone know if thats a possibility? Other than these few things I'm just gonna turn my TV into a web browser and media center. Most likely going to use it for programming as well.

Just make your own case! I've taken the TECHNODROME toy and converted it into a case mod with fans, a usb cd drive, and extended all the inputs/outputs that come with the Pi. Now I just need the Pi itself.

I'm going to use this mainly to network all my devices to a central hub. For media mostly. I like the car idea as well.

I'm going to rig it to solar powered fans and try to combat global warming .Hoho .

No seriously , if it does what it says on the box , I'll purchace a batch for my local

school and hope they get as much enjoyment as I did with the Z80 base , bring

real programers back into the fold , good luck ,tecs.