Raspberry Pi

[BlueCrab]

Anyone else around here have one? I'm still pondering what I'm going to do with mine exactly, so I'm looking for any good ideas.

Other than building a case for it out of Legos... I've already done that:

[pixel]

I've thought about using one for bittorrent and media storage. But I might get a powerful router for that instead.

[|darc|]

Anyone else around here have one? I'm still pondering what I'm going to do with mine exactly, so I'm looking for any good ideas.

Get a USB modem and see if you can set up a PC-DC dialup server.

[Skynet]

I have 2. One runs XBMC in my bedroom for if I feel like streaming stuff while in bed as my computer is in a different room.

The other one I don't do too much with. There was a mod I saw online where a dude put it into a keyboard (not the Ben Heck one) and that's what I want to do eventually. I'll load it up with emulators from SNES/Mega Drive then everything below it. I loved the Amiga back in the day, so I was going to make it like an Amiga in an updated keyboard. Still yet to find a keyboard it will fit into for a decent price.

[BlueCrab]

Get a USB modem and see if you can set up a PC-DC dialup server.

There's really no reason it wouldn't, as long as the modem itself works with Linux. I'd do this, but I really have no reason to spend the money when I could just as easily use my old Mac Mini for that purpose if I wanted a dialup server for my DC.

I have 2. One runs XBMC in my bedroom for if I feel like streaming stuff while in bed as my computer is in a different room.

I was thinking of possibly using it for media-related stuff, but pretty much everything I have these days is 10-bit H.264, which there's no way the Raspberry Pi will have the horsepower to decode in real-time (and since it is 10-bit color, not 8-bit, the hardware decode won't help). I could re-encode everything, but I'd imagine it probably isn't worth it, since I can just plug my laptop into any of my TVs anyway.

The other one I don't do too much with. There was a mod I saw online where a dude put it into a keyboard (not the Ben Heck one) and that's what I want to do eventually. I'll load it up with emulators from SNES/Mega Drive then everything below it. I loved the Amiga back in the day, so I was going to make it like an Amiga in an updated keyboard. Still yet to find a keyboard it will fit into for a decent price.

That could be interesting. I dunno if I could see myself doing that, but it would be neat certainly.

[Skynet]

Get a USB modem and see if you can set up a PC-DC dialup server.

There's really no reason it wouldn't, as long as the modem itself works with Linux. I'd do this, but I really have no reason to spend the money when I could just as easily use my old Mac Mini for that purpose if I wanted a dialup server for my DC.

I have 2. One runs XBMC in my bedroom for if I feel like streaming stuff while in bed as my computer is in a different room.

I was thinking of possibly using it for media-related stuff, but pretty much everything I have these days is 10-bit H.264, which there's no way the Raspberry Pi will have the horsepower to decode in real-time (and since it is 10-bit color, not 8-bit, the hardware decode won't help). I could re-encode everything, but I'd imagine it probably isn't worth it, since I can just plug my laptop into any of my TVs anyway.

The other one I don't do too much with. There was a mod I saw online where a dude put it into a keyboard (not the Ben Heck one) and that's what I want to do eventually. I'll load it up with emulators from SNES/Mega Drive then everything below it. I loved the Amiga back in the day, so I was going to make it like an Amiga in an updated keyboard. Still yet to find a keyboard it will fit into for a decent price.

That could be interesting. I dunno if I could see myself doing that, but it would be neat certainly.

All I know is it plays my 1080p videos just fine and I have a few that are a few GBs in size. I don't have heaps of HD video though. The only thing slow about it is the menu in XBMC. Once the video is playing it's surprisingly smooth. A much better alternative to a modded Xbox with XBMC.

[Juan]

https://code.google.com/p/torberry/

[JuddWack]

I have one, but I haven't had time to use it. I've been real busy with school and work.

As far as ideas, I had visions of running through the simpler tutorials and spinning those into a pinball machine. It seems feasible.

This is awesome too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAHrBA0jYAo

[Smurph]

splash it in the shitter and get an APC rock instead