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My two cents: the Raspberry Pi may not be a great fit for everyone. It
comes without a case (it basically looks like an open circuit board) so
you'd need a safe place to put it before you could even begin tinkering
with it, and they do require a fair amount of tinkering to set up. I don't
know what things are like at your museums, but in my experience there's not
a lot of spare time to be had for playing with linux distributions and
trying to hunt down drivers for components. To that end, I don't think the
Raspberry Pi even comes with wifi built in by default, just ethernet. You
need an add-on USB dongle to enable wifi. So this is definitely not a plug
and play solution (though you'd probably have some bragging rights if you
could come up with a cool setup for it).

All that said, I don't have a great alternative suggestion either!
Michelle



On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Beryl Rosenthal <
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> Hi Jeff,
> We put all our exhibits on a timer which needs to be reset according to
> whether we are on daylight savings or standard time.  If we don't manually
> reset...
>
> As you note, we have varied hours based on private functions/rentals.  It
> plays havoc with the exhibits.  I am curious about this raspberry pi thing,
> can you please fill us in?
> Thx,
> Beryl
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> > We are looking to plan/improve our start-up and shut-down procedures for
> all exhibits with electricity requirements.
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> > Considering all the varied operation hours during the year, we were
> thinking of incorporating 'raspberry pi' components to wirelessly turn
> exhibits on/off and to set timer functions, controlled via a computer or
> handheld device.  Has anybody else tried this with their exhibits, or
> currently planning something like this?  Any input is appreciated, as
> always.  Thanks.
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> > --Jeff--
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