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<blockquote data-quote="BEEKAY" data-source="post: 8253664" data-attributes="member: 659274">Has anyone here ever done a project with a Rasberry Pi or thought about it? I was talking with a friend and we got to talking about in dashes. Then I started thinking why couldn&#039;t I hook up a Rasberry Pi via HDMI and install Android or a different OS on it? Does anyone know if this would be a good idea or even worth the time? For those of you that don&#039;t know, a Rasberry Pi is a handheld computer with about 512MB of RAM and other inputs and outputs. It has 2 USB ports so what I wanted to do was use one for a wireless keyboard (like this one <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UE52ME/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;psc=1" target="_blank">Amazon.com: FAVI Mini Wireless Keyboard with Touchpad: Electronics</a>) and use the other one for a 1TB external HDD to store music and movies on. Then have a smaller SD card to install the OS on. I have no clue if what I am thinking about will even work, but I think it would be a cool little project. What do you guys think? Here is kind of what I am thinking about. Obviously there is A LOT more to it, but this is the base of what I am thinking.<img src="http://puu.sh/7VZE5/32b674976c.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Yellow = HDMI cordBlack = USBRed = Power source from somewhere within vehicle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BEEKAY, post: 8253664, member: 659274"] Has anyone here ever done a project with a Rasberry Pi or thought about it? I was talking with a friend and we got to talking about in dashes. Then I started thinking why couldn't I hook up a Rasberry Pi via HDMI and install Android or a different OS on it? Does anyone know if this would be a good idea or even worth the time? For those of you that don't know, a Rasberry Pi is a handheld computer with about 512MB of RAM and other inputs and outputs. It has 2 USB ports so what I wanted to do was use one for a wireless keyboard (like this one [URL="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UE52ME/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1"]Amazon.com: FAVI Mini Wireless Keyboard with Touchpad: Electronics[/URL]) and use the other one for a 1TB external HDD to store music and movies on. Then have a smaller SD card to install the OS on. I have no clue if what I am thinking about will even work, but I think it would be a cool little project. What do you guys think? Here is kind of what I am thinking about. Obviously there is A LOT more to it, but this is the base of what I am thinking. [IMG]http://puu.sh/7VZE5/32b674976c.png[/IMG] Yellow = HDMI cord Black = USB Red = Power source from somewhere within vehicle. [/QUOTE]

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