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Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI?

• bayesianhorse 13y ago
  Some 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)
• jacquesm 13y ago
  Make 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...
• lifeguard 13y ago
  Make a car computer to log ODBII data (post 1996 cars). http://www.thinkythings.org/obdii/ http://www.thinkythings.org/obdii/ http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/obdsim http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/obdsim http://freediag.sourceforge.net/ http://freediag.sourceforge.net/
  • deadfall 13y ago
    Wow, awesome, this has never run through my mind. Thanks for the info.
    • durum 13y ago
      Apparently my new account won't let me reply to the OP, so I'll add it here. Hackaday's RPi projects: http://hackaday.com/tag/rpi/ http://hackaday.com/tag/rpi/
• TobbenTM 13y ago
  Something 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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  • otium 13y ago
    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?
• cadalac 13y ago
  What about trying to make a very basic functioning OS kernel?