New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I ran Pidora on my RPis a few years ago and loved it. I've been quite happy, lately, with the CentOS Pi build. The default install is *very* minimal, and even after adding EPEL, it doesn't have all the packages that Fedora has, but for certain use cases (including the one where you rebuild SRPMs to suit), it's perfect.
https://wiki.centos.org/Download
I've been using some of the libraries out there that enable the Pi to do some pretty amazing physical feats.
There's ServoBlaster for controlling up to 8 servo's (I've only tried 1)
https://github.com/richardghirst/PiBits/tree/master/ServoBlaster
PiBlaster to enable PWM for addressable LED strips
https://github.com/mvitousek/pi-blaster
WiringPi to get additional functionality from the GPIO pins (it mimics the Arduino)
https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi-Python