Raspberry PI

[jimmy06]

Ok so today I received my Raspberry Pi.

Basically I've set this little beast up and and fired up the recommended distro Debian “squeeze”.

SSH is now working fine on it and things seem great.

What I'd like to do is throw what i should do with this for the time being out in the wild and see what idea's you guys can come up with.

This is basically what we have to play with.

Memory

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pi@raspberrypi:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        190836      43792     147044          0      10052      20976
-/+ buffers/cache:      12764     178072
Swap:            0          0          0


CPU Info

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pi@raspberrypi:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
BogoMIPS        : 697.95
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xb76
CPU revision    : 7

Hardware        : BCM2708
Revision        : 0002
Serial          : 00000000eb06fb5c


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pi@raspberrypi:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                  94M     0   94M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  136K  9.9M   2% /dev
tmpfs                  94M     0   94M   0% /dev/shm
rootfs                1.6G  1.2G  295M  81% /
/dev/mmcblk0p1         75M   28M   47M  37% /boot


There is a 16Gb SD Card in the device but i have not yet extended the rootfs partition.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17606346/Pi/IMG-20120628-00054.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17606346/Pi/IMG-20120628-00055.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17606346/Pi/IMG-20120628-00056.jpg
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17606346/Pi/IMG-20120628-00057.jpg

This ones specially for Martin.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/17606346/Pi/Aquiss_Pi.PNG

[Patrick]

Nice toy, and well done for getting one.

Thought about getting one myself, but thought it was easier to go to the moon than get one at the moment.

[mpitt]

but thought it was easier to go to the moon than get one at the moment.

I hear supplies and timescales are actually quite good now. Waiting lists appear days, rather than weeks.

[jimmy06]

Yes according to the chat in there IRC Channel there backlog is non existent currently.

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pi@raspberrypi:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                  94M     0   94M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  136K  9.9M   2% /dev
tmpfs                  94M     0   94M   0% /dev/shm
rootfs                 15G  1.2G   13G   9% /
/dev/mmcblk0p1         75M   28M   47M  37% /boot


[Zenith]

I got one of these through in the middle of May.
Then Farnell sent out another a couple of weeks ago because I pre-ordered from both suppliers. I sent that one back and I'm still waiting for the refund credit.

There are SO MANY things this little board make possible. Aside from the most obvious which is a micro media centre (look up OpenELEC for ready to go builds), I've got an idea for using them as thin clients to access virtual machines running on a server. That way anyone of my family can access their own personalised desktop on any screen in the house.

I was also thinking of using one as a proxy server on my network perimeter to filter out adverts for every connected device in the house. Discussing anything to do with blocking adverts tends to draw lots of flak on forums, so it's going to be tough to work out the exact "how to do this" but that's part of the fun of these things. If you don't know how to do something, ask someone else who does, or go find out for yourself.

My "pie in the sky" idea is to operate and control a motorised telescope taking into account location and time to make a home-made "go to" system. The long term idea is to hook into Google Sky on my phone, select a point, hit "Go here" and the telescope slews to the point in the sky and most importantly tracks that point in the sky as the Earth turns. It will need an IO shield on the GPIO pins to enable access to the serial connections for the motors, but once again it's the learning that's the point.

[edit] I forgot that I started a blog off to document my RPi life... and like everything I start, I've been sidetracked since. I've not done an update in a month because I've not USED IT in a month!
http://zenith-solutions.co.uk/ebp/

[jimmy06]

I got one of these through in the middle of May.
Then Farnell sent out another a couple of weeks ago because I pre-ordered from both suppliers. I sent that one back and I'm still waiting for the refund credit.

There are SO MANY things this little board make possible. Aside from the most obvious which is a micro media centre (look up OpenELEC for ready to go builds), I've got an idea for using them as thin clients to access virtual machines running on a server. That way anyone of my family can access their own personalised desktop on any screen in the house.

I was also thinking of using one as a proxy server on my network perimeter to filter out adverts for every connected device in the house. Discussing anything to do with blocking adverts tends to draw lots of flak on forums, so it's going to be tough to work out the exact "how to do this" but that's part of the fun of these things. If you don't know how to do something, ask someone else who does, or go find out for yourself.

My "pie in the sky" idea is to operate and control a motorised telescope taking into account location and time to make a home-made "go to" system. The long term idea is to hook into Google Sky on my phone, select a point, hit "Go here" and the telescope slews to the point in the sky and most importantly tracks that point in the sky as the Earth turns. It will need an IO shield on the GPIO pins to enable access to the serial connections for the motors, but once again it's the learning that's the point.

[edit] I forgot that I started a blog off to document my RPi life... and like everything I start, I've been sidetracked since. I've not done an update in a month because I've not USED IT in a month!
http://zenith-solutions.co.uk/ebp/

Check out http://www.raspbmc.com/ XBMC for the Pi

Filtering adds btw is very easy thought you wont want to use this as a proxy/router as its on board Ethernet is just a USB device. This means no Full Duplex.

[Zenith]

Who said I'd use the built in ethernet for it?
If you're going to go down this road, you get yourself a pair of USB-ethernet adapters with full duplex support and run Privoxy alongside iptables.
Privoxy handles stripping out ads, iptables handles directing IP traffic.

[jimmy06]

Its the USB Hub that cant full duplex. At least that's what they where saying to someone else in there IRC. That's why the on board cant full duplex fully. neither will a USB Ethernet