I'm buying a pack of three cheap ARM development boards

>>59913616
shove them up your ass. if you don't need them, don't buy them.

build a mechanical keyboard! with an altimeter and a tilt sensor, that tweets when you hit >100wpm (maybe by counting spacebar presses?)

>>59913624
>implying buying an extra two is a bad thing
I would be surprised if I don't break any on the way down

>>59913634
nah

>>59913658
Why not buy them from Aliexpress? The dev boards you find on Amazon are almost always acquired from your favorite chink shopping website anyways.

Have you got any idea how powerful these things are relative to older microcontrollers? Yet you can't think of anything original to do. Maybe get one to link up to a Pi to make some LEDs do something pretty. Jesus.

Hobbyists are scum.

>hot air balloon into space
anon you're a retard

>>59913693
I don't really care about saving an extra two or so dollars.

>>59913700
well, 99% of what I see hobbyists do with these boards is either completely pointless or very specific to a field, making it useless to me. I'm just asking for what ideas /g/ has

>>59913712
not into space per-se, but pretty high

>>59913729
>I'm just asking for what ideas /g/ has


>Hey guys I bought this MCU/Raspberry Pi
>Hurr what should I do with it

Every day

Forever

>>59913751
If you come here every day, I think you have bigger problems

>>59913700
it's pretty nice to be able to blink an led without needing a pickit. even if you're wasting processing power, you can get an avr board for like three dollars so there's not a whole lot of point in messing with older chips

>>59913778
But he can't even come up with the idea of blinking the LED.

OP, do you know what an interrupt is? If not, why haven't you researched this and found out how interesting and powerful it is on your own?

>>59913792
>But he can't even come up with the idea of blinking the LED.
I came up with the idea, and then dismissed it as stupid because
>1 555 can do the exact same thing
>I have literally no use for that

Now I can get a line of them together and somehow create some sort of randomly seeded automata, that could be cool

>>59913616
Make RGB LED strip controllers so you can to fancy lighting effects in your PC case.
That's what I'm going to do with my AVR board.

>>59913815
Attach a thermocouple and use it to seed an RNG of your own design.

>>59913833
Sounds cool, maybe i will do that

>>59913837
i like that. any ideas on what i can do with that data (cellular automata, print directly to leds)

>>59913905
Automata to LEDs is an idea I have had for a while. Also to have a decently powerful board run an LED game of some sort (Abalone probably) where the AI is driven by a genetic algorithm and it keeps track of generations etc

https://www.particle.io/products/hardware/electron-cellular-dev-kit

It's expensive, but you can find your sensors back when it lands.

Or, at least, it will send back sensor readings over cellular so you'd still have some data even if the device lands where you can't retrieve it.

>>59913616
>I'm already putting sensors on one of them and using hot air balloons to make it fly into space (might put rockets on there too).
>fly into space
Good luck!

>>59913761
I can leave any day I want!

>>59913616
install gentoo