What's Your Pi Plan??

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PC-BSD (NetBSD base  + PC-BSD specific programs)

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A deep space navigation system using a map of pulsars and this idea: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23576/ + a star-map.

Note: Knowledge of more than 4 pulsars is needed (one of them could be shadowed by something).

It is to be used in a deep space probe.

Jesper Juhl wrote:

 

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

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Among the candidate applications:

 

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- Experimental RasPi clusters.  I have a background in parallelism and concurrency, this is going to be fun.

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Yes! A cluster of RPi's :-)

I want to do this as well - would be great for experimenting with parallelizable algorithms, distributed <whatever> systems... How often do you get the chance to test the stuff you write on a cluster of machines? Not often in my world - with the RPi I can easily set up 10 machines and start experimenting :-)

Cool stuff!

About the ARM11 architecture: it is not designed for large calculations even an intel atom will probably outperform the processing power of 10 Raspi's see http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0333h/index.html..

I'm going to put a screen on it, use my earphones, Get a USB hub and build it in to the case, use my wifi dongle, and have a portable pc! Netbooks are so last year, and I HATE tablets!

I'm going to start off simple and use the Raspberry Pi to stream music in my Ham shack/Lab/Computer shop then go from there. I would ultimately like to pick up another board ASAP.

I'm hoping to be able to use my Raspi as a portable packet radio terminal for amateur radio use.  Most of the software I'd need already exists under Linux.

I just need to add a display (that DSI port looks interesting!)  a full audio port, probably using a USB sound card chip,  and a keyboard, probably using a USB bluetooth adaptor.

Wow! I love the GPS addon. what are you using? Sirf? I'd only considered using it for weather etc. More info on your solution would be gratefully received. Reckon I could develop a fuel sensor to give data alongside the GPS and feed it through NMEA2000 to a data screen

Love the Beowulf ideas. There are so many things I hadn't considered. I suppose that's where forums (fora?) like this really come into their own. Am I the only  person who wasn't pplanning anything around XBMC?

Very cool! Do you have the project details online somewhere?

Thanks,

Drew

My car has got built in headrest & dashboard screens/monitors, with central RCA video/audio connections and USB power... so I plan to build a concealed Pi as an in-car computer system, for both media, mobile internet and some home-made in-car applications.  Will also have to think about what incar USB peripherals might be cool (any thoughts on this?)

I think my plan is to:

1. buy or make a case for it
2. get a cheap 7" LCD TV for a monitor
3. use smartphone for kb/mouse functionality (or get a cheap small kb with built-in trackpad/ball)
4. slap a wifi USB dongle on it to use free hotspots
5. buy or make solar battery pack for powering the RPi and TV/monitor.
6. figure out how to make it all into a cool package/unit.

Voila, a camping/survival/hobo PC. Wait, maybe I should just use my Android Netbook (which I can also boot to Debian) with a solar battery pack. hmmmm LOL