The processor chip in the Pi is capable of full HD encode/decode. I wonder if a homebrew helmet cam is feasible?
One of the things that the Raspberry Pi Foundation has been muttering about bringing out later on, is a camera, so this seems an entirely plausible possibility. I'd like to plug two cameras in, so I can have forward and rearward camera views merged into one time synchronised data stream, which is surprisingly hard to do with more conventionally available equipment.
So what are people going to do with R-Pi ...
I want to use it to do things I was planning on trying to do with a Teensy anyway, but which should be cheaper and easier with this.
With a Teensy, connecting to a network is possible, but requires complicated and relatively expensive bits to be added.
I've been using Teensy's for EGSE (Electronic Ground Support Equipment) for our small CubeSat instrument. Since the entire instrument weighs less than 150g, you don't want a stupidly complicated big bit of test equipment to plug in. The Teensy works pretty well, but needs a PC to plug the USB connection into. I could use a Raspberry Pi board, and only need a screen and keyboard. Additionally, instead of the half arsed ASCII art graphics plotting I use at the moment, I can plot full HD graphics, and have direct access to the downloaded data over the net (whereas even connecting an SD card to a Teensy is a bit of a faff).
I'll probably try and use it to talk to the RFID scanners I've got to monitor that cats with, so that's also something which I'll want to try, if and when I manage to get one!
... and out of interest how would one set it up to perform operations with keyboard using TV screen as monitor?
Just plug them in.
If you've got a modern TV with an HDMI connector it's trivial, since the board has an HDMI connector on it. Alternatively it has a composite output (on a phono), so that can probably be plugged into a lot of other, older TVs (via a SCART connector for example, with a simple cable).
So long as the keyboard is USB, you should just be able to plug that directly into the USB connector. It won't work with a PS/2 style keyboard connector, but a cheap USB keyboard is probably £5, slightly more if you want a better quality device.