[CamperBob2]

Raspberry pi is helping people build cheap netflix settop boxes.

That's hardware hacking.

In reality, those of us who don't bring a pickaxe and a carbide lamp to work are just "systems integrators" anyway. Attitudes and titles don't pay the bills.

[deelowe]

Wha? There's a difference between SWE, EE/CE, and IT. The community around the pi is more for the IT crowd. I see very few using the gpio pins for anything, though that does seem to be getting marginally better.

Most of the value in the pi is the video decoder. So, that's the types of projects it gets used for.

[flurie]

FWIW, I and many of my friends (who admittedly deal primarily with hardware) find the gpio a big draw. The machine is cheaper and more useful than an arduino after you've thrown in an ethernet shield. I got one to serve as a doorbell router.

[deelowe]

Yeah. I'd like to get one for this reason too, but I'm also eyeing the new arm devices that are starting to show up.