There’s a great conversation going on over at Reddit, where user clownfart(!) has listed the specs and some ideas for his ultimate alarm clock driven by the Raspberry Pi
I’ll let you go read the thread yourself, but I’m particularly interested in the following things, which will be made quite simple with the power of the R-Pi. Personally I’d do all this through a custom built webpage (my skills are limited to HTML / PHP), but I’d be a bit limited in what I could do compared to the list.
Multiple alarms with flags for weekends
Radio with frequency selection (out of my range as I can’t program for the hardware)
Gertboard addons like, using the alarm to start something, or turn your lights on. (again, beyond my skills)
So yeah, go check out the original post, and make sure you take the time to read the comments, some smart cookies in there.
Lots happening in Pi world, I’m adding a stack of new ideas and uses for the Raspberry Pi to my ever growing list. We’re also getting moving with the twitter feed, and starting to move on Facebook
First in news is the first proper case that I’m aware of for the Pi, designed by Swirlingbrain and 3D printed at shapeways.com
Check out the vid:
Next up, this one’s particularly close to my heart as I have a house full of Apple devices. Dom, one of the devs over at Raspberry has hacked the Pi to operate as an AirPlay receiver. Not sure how everybody’s favourite Cupertino litigators feel about this, but if you use iDevices at all, you can’t argue at the coolness of all this. At $25 pop, it’s a no brainer to drop one of these behind every TV in the house, ready to stream all those cat videos at a moment’s notice.
Lastly, if you’re worried about getting your hands on a case for the Raspberry Pi (it comes as a board only, no case), fear not, LEGO will come to the rescue. There are people already building Raspberry Pi LEGO case prototypes and putting a hell of a lot of thought into their designs. Geek on brothas!
This is something I’ve wanted to do for years, but have never had the money to realise it, but now with the Raspberry Pi unit nearly available at around $35, I think I can make it come a reality.
I’d love to be able to hang a screen on the wall (with a Raspberry pi attached to the back of it) that does the following via voice control:
Shows a slideshow of images that it grabs from somewhere on the network (maybe even from Flickr?)
Shows a weather page with a long range forecast
Plays internet radio stations
Plays videos from Youtube
Shows a news page with latest updates
Displays RSS feeds
Shows a calendar
I’m sure I’ll come up with a bunch more ideas, and have no idea whether I could make it work, but given the price of the hardware and the open source nature of the software, I reckon you could do this for around $200!
Imagine being able to say “Computer, show me the weather” or “Computer, show me the news”, or “Computer, show me photos from Flicker of schnauzers”
Welcome aboard! We’re going to be covering all the latest news, as well as collecting all the best tips hints and tricks to get to most out of your $25 / $35 Raspberry Pi Computer.
