Tell me the options for using "pieces of iron"

itrabotnik2012-11-01 17:19:38

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itrabotnik, 2012-11-01 17:19:38

In March of this year, the boom succumbed and I ordered a raspberry pi, then there were a lot of ideas on how to use it. About 2 weeks ago, the long-awaited package arrived. I unpacked, looked, installed the OS, poked and turned and was puzzled by the question: What to do with it at home!? What to use at home?

All the old ideas have disappeared somewhere, and my head is full of everyday work and life ...

Also, HP Proliant MicroServer is waiting for its fate.

I will be glad for your ideas, otherwise it’s a pity for the pieces of iron to gather dust in vain ...

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13 answer(s)

Nickel3000, 2012-11-01
@Nickel3000

Yes, just a sea of use cases, it depends on what you are interested in doing. For example, for Raspberry Pi:
Webcam server
Vehicle tracking (using an add-on GPS module)
Streaming internet radio box
Vehicle Diagnostics, full OBDII logger with touch screen interface
Baby monitor
Media server by adding a couple of USB hard drives
Media receiver ( hopefully we'll get a port of XBMC or PLEX)
Video chat
Game emulator, running MAME (build your own arcade cabinet?)
Network Attached Storage setup (NAS)
Mini web server
FTP server
Proxy server
Firewall
Portable Media PC
Run an alarm system
Security webcam (with motion sensor)
Control garden lighting
Control sprinkler system
Wearable computer
HTPC for TV web browsing
HTPC for streaming Netfilx / Hulu etc
In car Computer
Thin client computer
Game server
IRC / chat server
build a cheap laptop
build a cheap tablet
create a digital photo frame
Asterisk VOIP server
PBX
Home automation system
MP3 player
Portable personal computer, you can use it anywhere you can find a monitor.
multitouch screen coffee table
Wall hanging screen with voice control for network pictures, weather, news and RSS feeds
Cyber Cafe computer
Video conferencing system
Personal weather station / logger
Control a light display
Control an LED board
Put it in an old mac classic or mac plus case as a general purpose computer
Intelligent photo frame with touch
Wardriving setup
A dedicated Synth, possibly with touch screen
Solar powered desktop computer
CNC controller
High tech birthday / Xmas presents
Backup server
RSS ticker
High tech alarm clock
Mini projector
DOSBox for games
Processing farm for [email protected]
Cafe media player
Brains for Arduino setup
Mumble server
Industrial manufacturing controller
TOR server
BitTorrent seedbox
Family notice board
CD / DVD ripping device
Car black box with video
Wall mounted, interactive mood lamp
Robotic telescope / camera controller
Display photographer portfolio images
BitTorrent client
SMS gateway

Evengard, 2012-11-01
@Evengard

Torrent rocker? It will probably turn out more powerful than a router, and it doesn’t make noise ...
As an option, you can probably make a media server, but you already have to bother.

dlinyj, 2012-11-01
@dlinyj

Make a smart home. Hang a bunch of sensors, and then everything is logged :). The question is possibilities.

telegamochka, 2012-11-01
@telegamochka

My Raspberry Pi is planned as the central device of a wearable computer, turning a bunch of disparate devices into a single system.

Vlad Zaitsev, 2012-11-01
@vvzvlad

I watch movies on minix. What a stupid use

AGvin, 2012-11-01
@AGvin

With HP Proliant MicroServer, at least you can make a home file server.

nochkin, 2012-11-01
@nochkin

I have a network drive hanging on my HP Proliant MicroServer N40L. I installed 16GB of memory, four 2TB disks. I installed FreeNAS under the system , which boots from an internal USB flash drive like Sandisk Cruzer Fit , and partitioned the disks under ZFS.
Very happy with the speed and silence and would highly recommend.
This N40L also works as a torrent downloader - you just drop the .torrent file into a special folder and after a few minutes the file with the movie is downloaded, which you can then watch on the RaspberryPi connected to the network and with XBMC installed .

Atxmega, 2012-11-01
@Atxmega

I would hang a monitor in the hallway. Weather, traffic, stock quotes…

koriaf, 2012-11-01
@koriaf

Let the cat entertain while no one is home.

Nekita Zatravin, 2012-11-02
@nekita

I'm thinking about buying a "raspberry". I want to stream from an ip-camera aimed at a car, put it on an external drive.

3dm, 2012-11-02
@3dm

(media player, recipe collection, weather) => in the kitchen.

Anton Solomonov, 2012-11-02
@Wendor

carpc.

itrabotnik, 2012-11-01
@itrabotnik

fat plus and HUGE thanks! (thanks for the link)