This was the conclusion to a little practical exercise we held to get everyone to try somethingoutside of their comfort zone.

Back in September, we had a little workshop on building up an impractical project with an older generation raspberry pi to show a few things:

• Older generation computers can be useful
• x86 is not the only game in town
• GUIs are not always needed
• There are other Linux distributions
• Building an appliance system is not hard
• Serial consoles are useful
• etc.

All said, this was a fun project, at least I had fun.

The information is all available at: https://github.com/ottawavalleysage/workshop-20240914

While most of the typos and errors have been corrected, there may be a few items that got missed. There are a couple of people that missed participating, so hopefully they will find any lingering issues.

The November meeting will discuss some of the things you can do with this project, now that it is built as well as other related uses.