I am still failing to think up an exciting project for my Raspberry Pi.

Previously it was running raspbmc, though I can't remember when I last switched it on.  But that has now died a horrible death - partly because my homeplugs broke (top tip: don't buy Zyxel powerline adapters), but mostly because apparently you aren't supposed to upgrade it by typing 'apt-get upgrade'.  Something I only found out after I'd done it and b0rked some important packages.  Including ifupdown.  oops.  Time for a fresh install of Raspian (and at some point I'll buy a wifi adapter)

Anyway, I was only fiddling with it because I'd bought a piglow and needed to install some extra packages so I could play with the pretty flashing lights.

This also gives me something I have to use the pi to play with - rather than general coding/linux, which I do plenty of on my desktop, and at work!

So I quickly knocked together a few patterns of flashy lights, with a quick web frontend so I can control it remotely.   Just need to figure out how to trigger something that runs in a while true loop from a http request...

Maybe one day I might also think up a proper use for the pi + lights.  But until them, I will continue fiddling about!

tags: geeky Raspberry Pi