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speeding_snail  ·  4405 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 10 Raspberry Pi creations

Depends on what you want to do :P

For actual hacks, the RPi can be a bit overkill. For example, say you want to create a thing to turn certain lights on and off. Then the RPi with 5W, 800MHz, 32 bit ARM chip is most certainly overkill and way too expensive (easy to use tough). For a media center it is really cheap, but it will still set you back $50,- at least when also buying power supply, HDMI cable and the SD card.