[Boogieman]

I actually finally thought of a good project that I can justify buying a Pi to use (and a 3d printer too).

I don’t want to give away too many details, because it might be a product I could patent, but I want to use the Pi to control a device with motors that move a mounted piece of equipment, like a camera, on 3 axes of motion. Then the Pi would connect wirelessly to an app on a handheld which had the pan and zoom controls, and controls for a few other things that the software on the Pi would control. I would also need the Pi to transmit video output to an external screen.

Seems pretty do-able to me but I’ll probably save it for a winter project when I’m stuck indoors with a lot of time on my hands to putz around.

[Bobalu]

The Pi2 makes a marvelous industrial controller!

For what this girl did for her Gramps a super cheap Android phone would have been a better deal.

I’m using them around here for remote cams.

Been playing with the idea of writing a Java app to make a P2P backup for FR. Everyone goes to walmart and grabs a cheap phone and sticks the app on it and it connects to their wifi and you have a distributed backup for FR.

The cheap Androids I got have a dual ARM core at 1.4Ghz ... plenty of oomph and they come with a 4GB sd card and that’s plenty of data space for such an app.

[Kommodor]

Yes, but if you shoot deer with it, the DNR’s gonna come after you :P

[steve86]

I don’t want to give away too many details, because it might be a product I could patent, but I want to use the Pi to control a device with motors that move a mounted piece of equipment, like a camera, on 3 axes of motion.

Don't want to burst your innovation/entrepreneurial bubble but that's done everyday using Pi and others in the world of R/C, especially multirotors with gimbals.