... if it isn't being used by anyone else?

Along the lines of what I understood GrandFather said: a suggestion would be that in addition to what (great) you are doing, to make (or start a collaboration for) an app using Pi and Perl which is extensible by pluggins. The old art of combining electronics+programming is scarce today IMO, so if you have that skill and can abstract the hardware away, act like the middle-man for more programming-inclined individuals so-to-speak, then you will do us all a favour.

Here is an idea: modern cars have a socket to suck data out of their electronic system, e.g. fuel remaining, speed etc. (keyword: OBD-II, quick cpan-search: Device::ELM327, intro: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-obd-ii/all). So, a Pi kit to interface with the car-can-bus (what a pun) to offer more than a common car-diagnostics tool does (which can be very expensive too) would be interesting: think of the integration to a database, wifi-ing the data home (additionally to BigBrother, gosh). A mechanic could plug that Pi-based diagnostic and the diagnosis goes straight to the car's history DB and prepares a report, or even enquires with online databases about what to do - pretty scary but now this is not our subject. The lighter side of it is logging mileage, fuel and letting you know that "hey you are running out of fuel and the cheapest fuel around here is XYZ"

Pi+Perl : the whole is greater than the sum

bw, bliako

In reply to Re: Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it? by bliako
in thread Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it? by stevieb

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