Re: Just got a Pi1B. What can you actually do with it these days?

On 2025-06-06, TronNerd82 <tronnerd82@aol.com> wrote:

If you can think of any productive use-cases for an original Pi model B
(not even the B+) let me know, and I'll consider it :-)

Nothing running a desktop. It is fine for light server/connectivity stuff,
interfacing/sensor data etc..

I use old PIs as ethernet to JTAG/SWD adapters:

https://www.schwingen.org/jtag-hat/

and Ethernet-to-GPIB adapters:

https://www.schwingen.org/yoga-gpib/

(the latter requires the 40-pin GPIO connector, but the compute power of the
oldest Pi 1 would be fine).

cu
Michael
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