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Originally Posted by Glennbo
Good to know. I plan to buy some weather sensors for my Pi just to dink around and write my own weather monitoring app for kicks.
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One of the original use cases for all of this was to try to figure out if an atmospheric condition called "tropospheric ducting" was at play. Weather is hard.
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Quite an elaborate setup! One of my last projects before cutting loose from the workforce was writing values to RFID tags as they printed, then using them so a whole show case of merchandise could be inventoried with a quick wave of an RFID reader. That's the extent of my experience with radio stuff and programming.
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I came into the railroads about six years ago out of the internet dot com space. I fully expected dudes with coal shovels and boilers and stuff. I was genuinely (and pleasantly) surprised at just how much technical sophistication and maturity the roads have. Then I considered that they basically invented the first air gap interface (that being a hook on a pole used to catch the mail bucket at stops in the west) and it made more sense.
Behold, the precursor to the cell phone!
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It's obviously the gee wow factor. I mean, if I were to bring an eight channel audio interface to remote location for recording a live event, bringing a laptop wouldn't be much less convenient than bringing a Pi. But then, why is REAPER available for a Raspberry Pi if it is of no value?
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I often ask that question regarding Reaper on Linux as a whole. But I guess there are enough "gee wow" people that want it to make it worth the effort.