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Playing around developing for a Rasberry Pi (or 4) is going to be one of the coolest/most satisfying things I do coding wise in 2012 I think.

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On the theme of a very rewarding change of perspective and exciting new possibilities, I'd heartily recommend everyone try their hand at developing for a small, embedded microcontroller platform. I don't know why sequencing and flashing LEDs is so satisfying.

That being said, I am excited about the possibilities of Raspberry Pi's, and hope they can meet their ambitious price point and stay well stocked. The design is impressive, and I hope they find equal success with the logistics and supply chain management side of the equation.

I'm slowly working on my first electronics project. I decided to go big though and I now have 200 RGB LED modules (from 5 strings of GE15 Christmas lights) hot glued into a 20x10 matrix. I'm still nervous about blowing something out though, so I'm hesitant to wire up the power. Eventually it will be a connected to a Arduino Uno with an Ethernet shield. :-) Fun hands-on project for this software guy.

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