A year or so ago I asked this group if anybody knew of a local proto-board maker. I was playing with 8 bit Atmel-AVR microcontrollers, assembly language, freepascal on linux, and the RS232 port. There was one or two suggestions. Then the Raspberry-Pi showed up about 10 steps more advanced with bells and whistles, using linux. Now I'm playing with crummy timers (when used below 1 msec) and the wonderful XForms windowing library on linux. They (XForms) have a nice stripchart demo, and could be a great display signal-analyzer, but linux on a big motherboard has a timing mind of its own. I'm still looking for cheap, slave, real time terminal proto-boards to control from a $100 p4 linux box. I don't know if the Raspberry Pi can run open-DOS? But maybe I should instead consider hooking a Raspberry-Pi to a wheelchair so I can zone out watching 1960s TV shows and summon help at a nursing home. Lots of fun seeing new people enjoy this great new hobby kit. A real winner. Ubu Sumner wrote: > Would you care to share your ideas for RPi projects? > > An idea I had was a garden weather station with responsive irrigation control. > > Seems as if the market's already there. Here's a very real list of gadgets for the garden written with a bit of tongue in cheek (everything from drones to scare away raccoons to e-pollinators to replace bees): > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/technology/personaltech/calling-on-gadgetry-to-keep-the-garden-growing.html > > > (I am now wondering what automation would do to my interest in the gardening process!) > > And in an area I have even less experience, I've imagined a RPi controlled popcorn popper to custom roast coffee beans, heat sensor based and programmable. > > What's your nutty, or not so nutty project? > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list