Edit: So one is definitely going to be the Proselytizer Library Stick (OK I need a better name for it, fine). Going to test out some Debian options on there, just need to find a nice way to make it a user friendly portable library/reader, so feel free to mention whatever comes to mind there as well.
But I have more of these little suckers, so thats just one for now.
So I’ve got a few Intel compute sticks sitting on my desk here, and I don’t know what I want to do with them (aside from throw them out, I’d rather find some value in them if I can).
They are STK1AW32SC, which have the atom x5-Z8330 chips, with a whopping 2gb ram, 32gb emmc, and a microsd slot.
A few things I’ve considered:
- Take a few LCDs and the drivers and make a “household front end”, basically just point to my locally hosted services (mealie for recipes, hass, etc)
- Same thing but make it a digital picture frame
- Compute to point to a magic mirror instance
- Try out how terrible emulation is on them to make a little game console for the kids thats standalone? They already can use the living room one for that, which is a usff box with a lot more power. So probably not.
- Automatically boots to rick roll to stick in TVs at my BILs house and drive him nuts?
Open to ideas! I’ve got tons of machines here, so I really don’t need them to do anything - which means the silly and borderline stupid (see rick roll note above) are perfectly acceptable ideas.
I always thought they were a cool idea, but never bought one. Idea-wise, IDK, use them for cluster-computing? I considered getting one as a retro gaming arcade…so maybe that?
Retro gaming I think is going to be good for one, cluster-wise I’d be better off with the old pi 3bs I have… somewhere… I think in with the microcontroller bin (amidst of a pile of esp32s).
I’ve got a USB gamepad I picked up when radio shack was closing its stores, I think thats with the old consoles though (everything going back to n64, my NES, Genesis, and PS1 are long gone unfortunately), which is at my BIL’s house as he is playing my old Wii and PS2. Which is now making me want to take the of Xbox shell and shove a PC in there for the living room, a good excuse to upgrade the living room PC… But a whole new project at the same time lol