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It turns out, after rejigging a few things and.not implementing other plans, that I have a few spare Raspberry Pi's.

I have one 3, two 3Bs, two 4s and an 8gb Pi5. I was going to use one of the 4s as a Retro pi arcade machine and am now using the 3 as a Xilinx chip programmer but don't have any plans for the others yet. I do use another 3 to run Octopi on my 3d printer, which is invaluable and also have an original model B+ somewhere but that things just took old now.

What do you guys do with your Pis?

Kodi box/media player/mini nas, maybe a PiHole?

JD

I have a couple that are sitting gathering dust, including an original one. Most of my usage these days is for things like A8 PicoCart, Analog V2 cards in my Apple, PicoMEM all stuff like that. Trouble is that's almost entirely Pi Pico's or variants thereof.

I did use one of my proper PI's to reinstall IRIX on one of my SGI Octanes but that's a bit of an edge case. Maybe build one as a workbench machine and fit it behind a display VESA style to save space?

Nothing too exciting.

Print server
MT32-PI
and another attached to my STs modem port for networking via PPP

chronicthehedgehog wrote: 07 Apr 2025 11:42 Nothing too exciting.

Print server
MT32-PI
and another attached to my STs modem port for networking via PPP

MT32-PI sounds like a great idea.

All good suggestions so far.

I did used to have a NAS and media server but knocked that on the head when I could watch just about anything online these days and when a couple of the HDDs started to fail.

I used one of the PIs to set up and SGI as well but once that's done it's kind of redundant.

I do have a few picos as well left over from work projects that got shelved but have a few retro ideas for those.

I've got the PIs set up in a cluster type case, just to keep them all tidy whilst I think what to do with them.

rubber_jonnie wrote: 07 Apr 2025 11:56

chronicthehedgehog wrote: 07 Apr 2025 11:42 Nothing too exciting.

Print server
MT32-PI
and another attached to my STs modem port for networking via PPP

MT32-PI sounds like a great idea.

Yes it's pretty cool. I'm using a PI3 but using a PI4 allows you to load larger sound fonts IIRC

chronicthehedgehog wrote: 07 Apr 2025 12:02

rubber_jonnie wrote: 07 Apr 2025 11:56

MT32-PI sounds like a great idea.

Yes it's pretty cool. I'm using a PI3 but using a PI4 allows you to load larger sound fonts IIRC

I'm quite spoilt with Sound modules here already and recently sold a CM32L, butight consider making an MT-32 pi

PhilC wrote: 07 Apr 2025 12:18

chronicthehedgehog wrote: 07 Apr 2025 12:02

Yes it's pretty cool. I'm using a PI3 but using a PI4 allows you to load larger sound fonts IIRC

I'm quite spoilt with Sound modules here already and recently sold a CM32L, butight consider making an MT-32 pi

Yeah, I've been meaning to build one too, but I keep getting other projects in the way...

PiStorm ?