Just bought a raspberry pi, what you advise me to do?

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Just bought a raspberry pi computer - mainly for test and development purposes - I'll start testing new distros, and working on the Linux kernel and testing stuff.

I'd like to know if you bought it, or have any idea, what else you advise me to do, that would be funny in development purposes, and also testing new hardware implementation for it. Any tutorial, etc?

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What I really want to do is get about 10 of them, and build a web server cluster, and see how much traffic I can serve. It would be great experience building a complex site with many servers, on the cheap.

You could also weatherproof one, set it up to run on solar power, put it outside with a web cam attached. Or build a remote weather station.

these are great things to do with it! Also I was thinking in implementing new hardware stuff for it.

Thanks for the tips.

I'm using it as a media center (XBMC), but this http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=OpenELEC_Boblight_ad... looks like a nice project as well: 1. create an array of colrful LEDs 2. connect to GPIO of RPi 3. fun!