Around this time 10 years ago I got a little money back from my tax return so I decided to spend some of it on something "fun", and ordered a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B. Since then it's been plugged in behind my desk, hosting all my little bot projects: currently, @lucasarts-places, @simcity2000bot, @endingsummary, @vs-everyone, @daily-emoji, @wadbot (on hiatus atm), @deus-ex-txt, @onepiece-characters, and @jojo-characters; and a few more over the years that have been retired.
I'd like to do a post soon specifically about the creative side of my bot-making practice, but for now I just want to thank this trusty little device for being exactly as much computer as I've needed to do lots of random little creative things.
I don't actually know that much about the "single board computers" space but clearly it's developed immensely in the past 10+ years. Raspberry Pi pissed a lot of people off ~18 months ago by announcing they were happy to work with cops and having their hardware used to spy on people, so I'd no longer recommend them, but I also haven't found a go-to alternative if I ever needed a new one. But there are multiple communities out there doing neat stuff with tiny cheap computers, and probably folks here on cohost know a lot more about em.
