My dad wants this

[Jason95357]

They run a full X GUI and my daughter loves to dink with Scratch on hers. I was kinda obsessing with them before I got this gun addiction.

They run MPD as well and there are plenty of clients including ones for smart phones. Makes for a cool way for you or anyone to remotely control your music collection in your house. We set up an unlocked Nook tablet to run it set up like a jukebox so folks can load up the queue with a song they want to hear. Cool for gatherings.

They can drive a media center as well (composit and HDMI out), but I haven't dinked with that.

[Deadbolt]

i like to use them for "large people gatherings' signage bots" - but they are very useful especially if you get the one with both usb and hdmi ports

if your pops is asking for one - $5 says he knows how to use it like he did your mom (you were born, weren't you?) (aka: make sweet sweet love with it)

[ebencikiv]

I would use it for this http://lifehacker.com/5929913/build-...5-raspberry-pi

[the86d]

I would use it for this http://lifehacker.com/5929913/build-...5-raspberry-pi

If this is it's intended purpose, why not just get an HDMI-Android-stick with XBMC pre-installed?

[MaHoTex]

http://www.amazon.com/RASPBERRY-MODE...I351Q3KB875XNM

He's into electronics.

What can he do with it?

Tons of stuff. The Raspberry is awesome and lots of power for a cheap price.

[ocabj]

My team discussed the Pi the other week. Basically, the question was, "What happened to Pi?", as in it was all the rage for a month and then it faded.

My opinion: It's like "legos" for adults. Something just to play around with to see what you can build. I can't imagine you would do anything 'production' worthy with a Pi. You hear about people serving out a couple webpages off of one with a stripped down httpd, but what's the point?

The one idea was to build an automatic pentesting tool with a Pi that you can just plug into a network and let it crawl away, which actually had some worthwhile purpose for practical work.

[smird]

Raspberry Pi with Clear Case by EasyAsPi™ $48.99 today only.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AT0TW4472