People are willing to try new ideas, even spurring more hobbyist hardware development to support these ideas. We've got a plethora of good, cheap-ish, small-board computers, and this gives way to tinkering, toying, and experimenting. Once it was cheap, people worked around the software challenges and made it good enough to solve many basic computing tasks, down to being able to dedicate a full and real computer to a task, not just a microcontroller. The Raspberry Pi was cheap, and cheap to the point of making it trivial for anyone to get one for a project (ignoring the current round of unobtainium it's been going through). The most amazing thing I've seen about the Raspberry Pi is that it normalized and commoditized the idea of the small-board computers and made them genuinely and practically available to folks.īefore the Raspberry Pi, we had small-board computers in a similar fashion, but they tended to be niche, expensive, and nigh unapproachable from a software perspective. Jim Hall The popularity of the Raspberry Pi It is also a handy file server over SSH so that I can make quick backups of my important files. When I'm not experimenting, my Raspberry Pi acts as a print server to put my non-WiFi printer on our home network. Just shutdown, swap microSD cards, reboot, and immediately I'm working on a dedicated test system. The extra microSD doesn't cost that much, but it saves a ton of time for the times when I want to experiment on a second image. I have two microSD cards, which allows me to have one plugged into the Raspberry Pi while I set up the second microSD to do whatever experimenting I want to do. If I think I'm going to do something risky, I use a backup boot environment.
If I want to create a new website or experiment with a new software tool, I don't have to bog down my desktop Linux machine with a bunch of packages that I might only use once while experimenting. Experimentation with the Raspberry Piįor me, the Raspberry Pi has been a great tool to add extra development resources on my home network. I have a hunch that some of these fantastic builds will spark an idea for others. We all have such different lived experiences, so I asked our community of writers about the most curious use of a Raspberry Pi they've ever encountered. We use a lot of open source when solving problems of all sizes, and that includes Linux running on the supremely convenient Raspberry Pi.
And curiosity is the basis of our problem-solving. Recently, I was on a call where it was said that the open source community is a combination of curiosity and a culture of solutions.
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