I hear you. Going to college full time. Still working on Keep America At Work full time. Fighting with those whose solution is for me to greet people at walmart because then I would have a job. And trying to figure out how to get five projects going with zero resources <grin>
My interest in the raspberry, or even the arduino is the fact that they are cheap and I'm wanting a "master" to read the "slave" units. For instance, one slave unit might monitor the moisture content of a garden bed and then actuate the rain while another might monitor the temperature while opening a window and the master would read all these slaves and then do the graphing, or data analysis from a central control panel While I hate the things that I see our corporations doing to their employees, I must admit that if a person has the resources and knowledge, there are ton's of possibilities out there that need to be developed. That is the main reason I seek to get back into the corporate game for a few more years. 70K to 100K as a developer or project manager would give me the resources necessary to make many of these things happen. Bottom line, sheer willpower alone will not cut it when you are broke... -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Wendt Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] I haven't used a PI - but, have contemplated getting one to play with - since they are so cheap. However, this past year - I've been BURIED, working on tons of prototyping projects. If you look at Thingiverse.com - you can probably find some interesting 3D Models - that when printed - can work as an Enclosure for a PI. I might be able to print one of them up for you... Also - I believe you can find a PI Enclosure on Shapeways.com - which can get printed & Shipped to you... -K- -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Virgil Bierschwale Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] Anybody have any experience with the raspberry pi? I'm working on a project called Food and Utilities For Free. Long story, but I'm looking to use fish ponds with squarefoot gardening techniques mounted above the fish pond with a rain system that takes water from the pond and drains back into the pond. I also believe that one of the main problems with solar power is that we try to a whole house concept and I think we would have better and more affordable results using a zoned process. I am looking at these for monitoring the sensors and actuating the control valves. Oh yes, and water storage collected from rainwater -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christof Wollenhaupt Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] if you don't have to constantly check your web site while developing, but only want to occasionally check that everything is working on a Mac, it would be cheaper not to buy one. There are many public places where you can put yourself in front of a Mac to go through your web apps for free or little money, such as in a public library, a hotel lobby of many larger brands, internet cafes, Apple Stores, etc. With regard to a Linux computer: Amazon offers the smallest EC2 instance for free as a Linux machine. Instead of buying a new computer, you could use your existing Windows machine and simply RDP into the Amazon instance ( http://aws.amazon.com/free/). -- Christof --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
