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I'm seeing this Raspberry Pi meme on HN a lot lately so I guess I should look into it?

What kind of cool things will I be able to do with it exactly?



I'm confused by your use of the word 'meme.' A meme is generally some sort of fairly abstract thing (e.g. a funny picture of a cat with various witty statements superimposed on it).

This, on the other hand, is a physical product, so I'm not sure how it could qualify as a 'meme.'


Quickly off the top of my head:

- Low power home servers (media, voip, etc.). - Digital signage. - Portable computer, just add keyboard+monitor. - Hobbyist controller, like arduino but you can code in higher level scripting languages (python/ruby/etc).

There are plenty of other uses. It's small, low power and runs linux... the possibilities are endless.


Haters be downvotin' instead of answering my honest question.

So far I know of 0 cool uses for a Raspberry Pi. I don't have time to research every new HN trend in detail either. That's why I ask for a summary of what this thing can do for me.


It's a tiny, low power, low cost computer. The uses are almost infinite.


I don't have time to research every new HN trend in detail either.

So in your laziness, you expect us to do it for you?



It's a cute toy for running Linux. You can play Quake 3 on it.

Other than that, it might be useful for teaching programming...?




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