Pis and other SBC (Single Board Computers) can be a lot of fun. The main focus on mine is using them to run block-chains for the specific cryptos that I favour. STEEM is not possible because to be a witness you need some pretty heavy hardware, but most Proof of Stake coins can run on those little devices with ease. I run 4 cryptos on my Rock64 and was having a little trouble with it yesterday as its a bit loaded up, so I was moving all the chain data to an external hard drive.
The idle resources go towards BOINC, which if you didnt know is a way to subscribe your spare computer power to doing scientific research like searching for cures to cancers (any computer, even a Mac!). Its easy to setup, there is even a specific crypto that rewards you for doing it; #gridcoin.
I also do little bits of programming on the Pis in Python, which is a fairly easy language to use, even for a dope like me, though I wasnt doing anything so taxing yesterday!
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