Love mine. Uses break down into two cases for me: as a much more capable arduino / embedded system (GPIO etc), and as a very compact computer with very solid multimedia features.I suggest getting a small usb wireless dongle, unless you have network sockets all over the place.Running XBMC on it works pretty well. It even supports HDMI-CEC so my TV remote could control it.Looking forward to the camera board. My experience with USB cameras on the pi hasn't been great. You need to use low resolutions and frame rates. The module, however, should provide high resolution video, with which I shall spy on my cats.

I got one when they were first released and it's sat in a drawer since yesterday. I finally got around to doing some learning on what you can do with these things. http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqsDoes anyone have one? What are you using it for?

Seems like you could create a little storage initiator out of this thing. Attach some kind of RAID to it and you've got a pretty solid backup SAN for less than the cost of your laptop.Then again, seems like you could do the same thing with Dropbox and not have to think about it.

Not crap!My girlfriend bought me one of these for my birthday, great little machine. So far, I've only ran Raspbian (optimised Debian), and am using Openbox on it. Added very cheap wifi and Bluetooth dongles, and have got my apple keyboard and mouse working with it. Runs pretty well when overclocked.

Look, as a computer, I have to give the Raspberry Pi a vote of Crap, but as a device, I think it's Not Crap.

projectMalamute wrote:I've got Pi3 and am pretty far down the rabbit hole now.Here's a synth I made with it:phpBB [media]Right now I'm hacking away on a script to use it for recording my band's shows, grabbing the 16 channels from our little digital mixer over USB.big not crap from me.That's awesome!

I've got a Pi3 and am pretty far down the rabbit hole now.Here's a synth I made with it:Right now I'm hacking away on a script to use it for recording my band's shows, grabbing the 16 channels from our little digital mixer over USB.big not crap from me.

projectMalamute wrote:I've got Pi3 and am pretty far down the rabbit hole now.Here's a synth I made with it:phpBB [media]Sounds great.

I use one all the time to test when I need something physical, or a basic microcontroller that I also want to e-mail me, etc. I have them running industrial controls, hosting touch-screens for kiosks. The uptime and dependability has beaten many 'industrial' components at a pittance of the cost. the processing power, Four USB ports, HDMI and flash memory for $50+mem$???? An engineer in the 90s would have killed their whole family for one, even if they had a good family

Thinking about getting one to stick in my arcade cabinet, using one of these: http://arcadeforge.net/Pi2Jamma-Pi2SCAR ... ::248.htmlBit expensive, but a simple plug & play solution which is supposed to deliver good results. Apparently the output resolutions are close to authentic; not quite as good as an ArcadeVGA but much better than those piece o' shit Pandora's Box thingies, or converting the Pi's native HDMI output to RGBS with a downscaler, and I ain't gone to the trouble of putting together a proper arcade monitor just to do that.Anyway I should probably bite the bullet and get one before I end up spending even more money on original arcade PCBs.