What to make?

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I'm looking to work on a new project; I'm looking for new ideas as to what I should make or do.

Some of these may end up needing a budget, others I may be able to do on minimal $$.

Currently, I have these in the works: (Some are in planning stage others I have partially completed)

A) New Desktop machine. (partially completed)

B) Custom built NAS (probably running FreeNAS) (Partially Completed)

C) Living Room Media Center (Likely XBMC or OpenELEC) (Planning)

D) PFSense: multi-network WiFi enabled Router Firewall (Planning)

E) City Roaming?

F) Photo related videos? (maybe a tutorial or just a photo adventure)

G) Something more adventurous?

 

Thoughts, ideas, feedback!?  

 

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MORE adventurous. How about finding places to leave geo-cached treasures, like a NFC tag/QR code that people can find that will lead them to the real treasure. what that treasure is i duno? maybe a bitcoin wallet address?

you live in NY so im thinking lead them to an abandoned subway tunnel.

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time to break down the barriers between IRL and the interwebs.

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Living Room Media Center seems a great idea.

 

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Photo video please! I'm a amateur photographer myself (my website is <a href='http://www.roemerbakker.com'>here</a> and would like to know your thoughts on the subjects and see your work.

 

Cheers,

Roemer

 

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More CITY ROAMING :)

Especially now since its snowing here in New York City

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Maybe make a mining machine... Or do city roaming, ITX budget machines, stuff with bitcoin/dogecoin...

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dedicated streaming computer?

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Anything from E to G. Not that I don't like tech but it's great to see something different.

I'm also becoming rather interested in photography, so there's that.

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You could always give cooking or some other non tech related project a shot. If that doesn't strike your fancy then why not try building a cheap compute cluster. Heck why not utilize the raspberry pi for an awesome project? Really though, in the end it comes down to what you'd like to go with most.

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I'm game for anything, the real bottom line is... "The Bottom Line: How much will this cost??" <--- the ultimate deciding factor...... I hate it.

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Have you given any thought to filming lets play segments or perhaps a tutorial series on networking in a linux environment. You did mention setting up a pfsense box which I know we'd all love to see some videos of. Some other ideas are film a city adventure video series, maybe some of which involve you exploring abandoned areas(anarekist made mention of this), cooking videos and photo adventures. I hope you receive enough feedback to kickstart some fun projects, good luck man. 

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Personally I would like to know more on networking and what a person could do to increase quality of internet. An in depth look on networking.  

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Great idea. Long term project. I'll need to come up with a list of topics to cover.

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I'm looking into building a media center PC soon and have been considering using an Intel NUC and installing XBMCbuntu.  I'd be very interested on seeing your take on a media center.

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I'd like to see a photo adventure and some city roaming. But a living room media center is also something that would be interesting!

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I would personally like to see, in order of interest; the custom NAS, the PFSense: multi-network enabled router "hack", or the livingroom media PC. All would be great and useful for a young student to know, but i ask that when you do this make it somewhat comprehensive so even novices may try to do something similar. Thanks and keep up the awesome vids/work! 

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I got burned by cheap wireless router so now i want to know everything :)

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With your custom nas I was just wondering what sort hardware you're using, ecc ram, dual nics etc? I imagine your doing more than just file serving and I'm really curious how much cpu you need for these things.

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Do part of them all. First A, the custom NAS and then (overclocked-> easy boost from 700MHz to 1000MHz) Raspberry PI with OpenELEC, so there you have full living room media center with storage :) And to cover it all connect it to PF sense, so you'll have a small home enviroment... somewhat that I do :) Well You can reverse the list if you like, and would probably be better :D