I feel like I’ve forgotten more than I learned … It’s been a while since experimenting with the Raspberry Pi, and I figure by posting, I might find some motivation to work on it. Or peer pressure.
I’ve compiled some notes here, hope to expand on them quickly. Loving circuitlab.com, their web interface is awesome – If you’ve never heard of them, they provide a circuit diagram service thats fantastic. Â I’ve used them to create diagrams in several posts.
Back to the Pi .. so many ideas ..
- Weather Station
- Home Automation (randomly turn off and on lights, monitor environmentals)
- Packaged appliance to deploy to a family members home or business (saves the time of actually going to the said location – out of band management so to speak)
- Webcam (already did this one – code to be posted soon, see below)
- Traffic stoplight that displays the current LAN status
- Evil robot capable of world domination
- Other awesome stuff!
Months ago, I wrote some code that, along with an external USB webcam, turned the Pi into a time-lapse camera, and even joined the photos together into one great big animated gif file (though the concept wasn’t mine). Â I’ll release the code for that one as soon as I find it – as it turns out – the Pi’s are very particular about being powered down. Â If not done right, the SD cards are corrupted, and you’re up shits creek.
I just got a Raspberry Pi the other day. I’m going to try a few projects over here (http://learn.adafruit.com/category/raspberry-pi) to get some experience. If you want we can compare notes and guilt each other into sticking with it 🙂 .
Awesome, I’d love to swap notes! And guilt away, I drop side projects far too quickly. I’m hoping that a public post will help shame me into following through. 🙂
Oh, I need in on this note-swapping and guilting. 😉 I got a Raspberry Pi last Christmas, and I’m ashamed to say I’ve barely played with it since March. I talked for a while about setting mine up as a media center, so maybe I’ll start there. Soon … 😀
And so added to the list. 🙂