From the day I got my Raspberry Pi, I knew it was something special. As a young student interested in computer programming I thought it would be a neat learning experience to write some code for it. Well, I did. Being not very competent with Python, I went ahead and managed some code. About a week later I had a fully fledged server side. Having more experience with Java and Android it took me about 2 days to write a functioning no BS app that gets the job done. The hardest part for me though was having the server run as a service on the RPi, which I finally figured out. After all of this it really came together into a neat project.
I decided to write my own code and realized that it was a really cool project. Just to think about it I was controlling stuff with my phone from 20 miles away. And that's just the beginning. As of now it only allows output, so almost anything with an on/off switch should work. I also added a few extra features, like I stated above, it's a service. As well as restoring all of the settings when it is turned back on (so if the board crashes, when it turns back on the output that was on when it turned off turns back on).
I write about this because I wanted to know how much interest there is in a project like this, if you have any just post. I plan on adding controls in the app, so I could shut the RPi down, or restart, etc.
