Raspberry Pi anyone?

[lassieface]

After months of waiting I got mine in the mail yesterday. Now I have to figure out what to do with it. MAME? HTPC? Anybody else get one, and what are you going to do with it?

[MartyS (Gromit)]

That is very cool, I might actually have a use for one of those at work.  I've been trying to think of a way to replace our Geochron but since it is hanging on the wall in a hallway near the observatory it can't be something too expensive in case it gets stolen or vandalized.  One of these and a really cheap monitor might do the trick.

FYI: Geochron: http://www.geochron.com/

[lassieface]

You work at an observatory? That's freaking awesome! I just visited the one in Denver.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

It's one of my jobs, taking care of all the various stuff in the Biology, Chemistry, and Physics departments.  In '05 they doubled the size of the building and put an observatory on top of the new wing.

FYI:  http://www.science.widener.edu/observatory/

[lassieface]

That's awesome. I don't live anywhere near one, so anytime I go on vacation I check out the local one.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

That's awesome. I don't live anywhere near one, so anytime I go on vacation I check out the local one.

If you are ever in Flagstaff, AZ, be sure to go to Lowell.  I've been out there twice.  They have loads of great educational stuff, you can tour most of the place in the daytime, visit the telescope/camera that discovered Pluto and Lowell's big refractor.  At night you can look through Lowell's scope but the line is usually at least a hundred people when the weather is nice.  There's also a very cool walkway where they have the solar system to scale, you start at the Sun and within a few steps pass the Earth, then it's a very long walk out to Pluto.

[lassieface]

Reminds me of that Bill Nye episode where he does the scale of the solar system.

[lassieface]

Finally have it all together.