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TheGhzGuy
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Media Center, basic electronics, robots, home automation... whatever comes to mind actually. I'm still waiting for a Raspi Zero in Italy, so I haven't tried anything with that. But I have an RPi 2, and I'm planning on creating a cluster of these for distribuited computing and other stuff. Just for fun.

 

You can still find on youtube some projects, ore other ideas in other threads here in the forum

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one i liked to try is alarm clock connected to a stereo or a speaker. will probebly wake up the whole city :P

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5 minutes ago, TheGhzGuy said:

Hello all!

My friend just got a Pi Zero (Because it was cheap) and was wondering if there are any interesting, really cheap projects he can do with it. Thanks!

I used mine as a spotify-based chromecast like device. You could also try learning Linux as a beginner project.

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3 minutes ago, Cryosec said:

Media Center, basic electronics, robots, home automation... whatever comes to mind actually. I'm still waiting for a Raspi Zero in Italy, so I haven't tried anything with that. But I have an RPi 2, and I'm planning on creating a cluster of these for distribuited computing and other stuff. Just for fun.

 

You can still find on youtube some projects, ore other ideas in other threads here in the forum

Maybe an LED Project! I wanted to try the distributed computing to!

 

BOINC Setup:
i5 7200U @ Stock

Core2Duo T6600 @ Stock

i3 2330M @ Stock

i5 3210M @ Stock

 

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1 minute ago, mrgooglegeek said:

I used mine as a spotify-based chromecast like device. You could also try learning Linux as a beginner project.

What kind of stuff do you suggest to do with Linux?

BOINC Setup:
i5 7200U @ Stock

Core2Duo T6600 @ Stock

i3 2330M @ Stock

i5 3210M @ Stock

 

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turn it into your car radio !

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1 hour ago, TheGhzGuy said:

Maybe an LED Project! I wanted to try the distributed computing to!

 

Yup, maybe something that lights up specific LEDs based on music :D 

 

1 hour ago, TheGhzGuy said:

What kind of stuff do you suggest to do with Linux?

Linux will be the base OS of almost everything you will do with the Zero, so the answer will be: almost everything

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Just now, TheGhzGuy said:

What kind of stuff do you suggest to do with Linux?

Learn the basic command line, installing packages, command line configuration, stuff like that. The Pi zero is a good board for experimenting on.

Its automatic, just press this button!

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7 minutes ago, mrgooglegeek said:

Learn the basic command line, installing packages, command line configuration, stuff like that. The Pi zero is a good board for experimenting on.

 

8 minutes ago, Cryosec said:

Yup, maybe something that lights up specific LEDs based on music :D 

 

Linux will be the base OS of almost everything you will do with the Zero, so the answer will be: almost everything

I'll be sure to tell him that!

BOINC Setup:
i5 7200U @ Stock

Core2Duo T6600 @ Stock

i3 2330M @ Stock

i5 3210M @ Stock

 

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