What to do with a bunch of Rasbperry Pi

[Akima]

So..

 

I'm in posession of about 200 Raspberry Pi 3B. Long story how I got these, but essentially we inherited them from a startup we bought out. We have no commercial use for them, but i'd like to use them internally as little dev environments etc for the team.

 

I've got 16 racked up already. The rest are sitting in the box still.

 

I'm looking for ideas of what we can do with these - beyond the ususal "K8s cluster" blabla. I like the idea of clustering them, but I want to do something a little different. Any ideas?

 

On a secondary note - I'm happy to give away a bunch of these if you cover the cost of shipping. I'm in the UK. Or if the LTT team fancy doing some nuts video with 200 odd Rasberry Pi, i'm happy to talk.

[Kilrah]

Keep the cluster since it's nice and a few just in case, sell the rest since AFAIK there's still a crazy shortage of Pis and they sell for way more than they're worth to companies who have projects designed around a pi and no pi = no product to sell. 

 

Now as to uses for the cluster... basically nothing other than the mentioned example of experimenting with apps specifically designed for clusters or figuring out HA/load-balancing schemes and other networking shenanigans since to run anything useful even a junk free PC will run circles around them. 

 

EDIT: Yeah just checked the main Pi reseller here, there isn't a single one in stock of any model/variant.

[ravahn2020]

depending on your price i might be willing to buy one off you

[HanZie82]

5 minutes ago, ravahn2020 said:

depending on your price i might be willing to buy one off you

If it was me, you would've had to do WAY better then just the one. Or overpay for it.
Hardly worth all the effort of shipping just the 1 raspberry.
Just sayin.

[Akima]

If ya'll pay for the shipping, i'm happy to give away a few for free.

 

I know how piss difficult these are to get hold of. I don't want to hoard the hardware, and it goes against the Raspberry Pi foundation's ethos.

 

That being said, i'll have to double check the forum rules first.

[Needfuldoer]

Have you seen what those things are going for lately? You could almost retire if you sold them.

[igormp]

On 8/12/2022 at 10:22 AM, Akima said:

beyond the ususal "K8s cluster" blabla

Dang, that was my first thought after I saw your title.

 

maybe a really stupid spark cluster for data analysis, or have your devs do stuff with some other distributed framework such as ray.

 

If you're really willing to give it away, do you have any idea how much shipping would cost to brazil? haha

[FK FOSS it is Socialism]

how about hosting some tor relays to counter balance bad relay actors like KAX17. maybe even some people of your team are interested in hosting some relays. since you only can run 2 on the same IP, or was it 3?

(and just to be clear, relays, not exit nodes...)