I purchased a Raspberry PI a while back, and have yet to do anything with it besides make an LED light blink. Are there any interesting projects to attempt?
Make a car computer to log ODBII data (post 1996 cars).<p><a href="http://www.thinkythings.org/obdii/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thinkythings.org/obdii/</a><p><a href="http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/obdsim" rel="nofollow">http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/obdsim</a><p><a href="http://freediag.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://freediag.sourceforge.net/</a>
Some ideas I had:
* record your snoring patterns over night
* capture webcam images over long periods of time
* track wlan devices in the vicinity
* use it as a low-distraction terminal
* network-accessed storage
* use it to train a parrot (microphone to detect tunes, treat dispenser or LEDs for reinforcement)
Something I have done recently: read bandwidth consumption off the firewall and use the Raspberry Pi to control two tachometers to show the bandwidth at all times. Haven't quite nailed the tachometer frequency generation, but I'm close.
Make it the center of your new home brew cruise missile or octocopter (heavy though), turn it into a really snazzy media player, build a gantry mill and use the PI to control it. So many ideas, so little time...