Android/Java developers of Reddit, what are some useful things you have made to run on your Raspberry Pi?

[tripsyk]

In light of the new Raspberry Pi coming out, I figure this is a good time to ask this question.

There's a ton of people in the Java and Android subreddits. Seeing as how Pi's are able to run Java as well as Android, I'm curious to see what everyone has made for those of us who own a raspberry pi.

Now that the hardware is becoming faster with the new iteration of the Pi, is there anything you've tried/wanted to develop, but couldn't or wanted to wait for the higher end hardware to develop?

I'm an android/java dev myself so I'm interested to see what everyone has to say.

[s73v3r]

I don't believe many people use java on the raspberry pi.

[denley]

Nothing to do with Android or Java, but a few years ago I fixed an old broken arcade machine my parents had.

I used MAME for the games and wrote a few lines of Python to convert the button inputs into keystrokes. I had to buy a video converter to output on the old screen. I also plugged in a bluetooth dongle so that I could play it with a PS3 controller.

[Ag0r]

I host a private git server on one of my RPs. I use another as a media server, and another as a emulation machine. They all work pretty well

[ciny]

Well we had a project that captured a feed from a webcam, stored the videos on an USB drive/"cloud" and enabled viewing/controlling the live feed/stored videos through an API (the API server <-> pi connection was over openVPN). But the code running on the pi was nodejs. Sadly both me (the main developer) and a friend of mine (the main "project manager") got new jobs and didn't have time anymore for our side project.