What is a Raspberry PI usefull for?

What is a Raspberry PI usefull for?

Could anybody share experiences

Is it worth the price?

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It is bad as a server because running HDDs isn't optimal with it.

I use it as wlan bridge to get my signal to the other side of the house and it also sends an email to my phone if someone rings my door bell.
I want to extend on some of the smarthome meme what all the big companies are pushing now but I haven't found the right usages and tools yet.

Do you use two wifi cards for the wlan bridge?

Retropie and a low energy Minecraft server are what I use it for.

It is LAN-connected to the router but setting it up with two dongls and completely wireless shouldn't be much of a problem either.
Plenty of guides out there.

Is there an easier way to configure the emulator controls?
i get the main menu setup and then the moment you load a game it's 'haha fuck your config i got my own' and then it's a game of guess the keys. It's quite ridiculous.

I use mine for the following
>seedbox
>mumble server
>teamspeak server (getting paid £30 a year to host, covers the price of running a pi 24/7)
>git server
>SFTP

I was asking because I've used my laptop as a wireless wlan bridge before, with only one wifi adapter, and a "virtual" one, that comes with Windows 7. I was wondering if the same could be done with a RasPi.

Retropie sounds interesting.
Is it any good?
Does it give a better feeling than normal PC animation?

>minecraft server

How is this working out? Last time I ran a Minecraft server (~4years ago) it was a total resource hog.

I use it to stream media (Tv-shows, movies, twitch, news etc.) and i run ad blocker in the background (Pi-hole) and it works great.
Also works nice for retro gaming with retropie if you're in to that.

this is a cool project
samy.pl/proxygambit/

brother uses it to emulate games.

It runs PS1 games fine btw. Was playing Mortal Kombat 4 and Crash Team racing without any problems.

I got a 16x2 LCD and use it to output various shit such as DPS data in vidya gaymes.
It was just an excuse to finally try using that GPIO out and see if I could do anything with it.

i use mine for seti@home. gets about 400/500 credit per day. i know it's shit but it lets me participate in the project while not turning my house into an oven and not costing me anything in KWH

if you intend to do anything CPU-intensive, please, please get a radiator and a fan. i know they're supposed to be radless and fanless, but the best case scenario is you'll just burn your micro SD card in a month and the worst case scenario is you lose your house if it catches on fire. mine is staying at around 60 degrees celsius with a radiator and noctua 5V fan at max speed. with 20 degrees ambient.

>>minecraft server

with 1gb of RAM ? good luck with that...

It's great for interfacing with dead drops to circulate child pornography, or for building wireless detonators for explosives.

Retropie is pretty good a little confusing sometimes but i over clocked my pi and wacked a third part wired ps3 controller in and its decent, just like emulating on an android phone really

>i know they're supposed to be radless and fanless,
I thought they didn‘t add one just to keep it cheaper.
I saw a video where someone made a very good passive cooling.

youtube.com/watch?v=1AYGnw6MwFM
Definitely worth a watch I think if someone wants to run the thing with more load for a longer time.

i bought some neat heatsinks for it, took a 5V laptop fan and use that to cool it

>NAS
>gitlab
>web hosting for fiddling around

shove it up your vagina

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I want to use my raspberry pi for port scanning.

My problem is it doesn't fucking work.

It boots with my SD card but it just doesn't recognize my keyboard. What the fuck is up with that? I don't use a hub or anything, just a regular USB 40mA keyboard

petewarden.com/2010/04/05/how-i-got-sued-by-facebook/

Why do you need a keyboard ? Just ssh into it

Just picked up 5 of them for £10 at a car boot, what should I use them for? thinking of reselling 4 of them to cover the cost

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I was thinking more of a shitpost archiever or something like that.
Just play around with Sup Forums api for example. Archieve your favorite board, text only.

Depending on the distribution he used the SSH server needs to be enabled first, which needs a keyboard. (I think I had to do this when I installed Raspbian the last time)

Look up Raspberry Pi Tor Relay

As an Infoscreen running FullPageOS

It's a pi zero with Rasperry Pi Debian

Thx, i didn't know about that os

You obviously never installed raspbian.

You tell it to install SSH by default, you do this when you configure the hostname and password anyway. Then you put the SD card into the Pi and it'll grab the SSH server along with the other packages it installs.

What device/OS would work best if I want to:
>block all Microsoft's IPs
>Have a maintained list of blocked government/university IPs
>Will allow me to do DNS redirection
>have two gigabit ports

Make a waifubot that jerks your beef

Just wondering: would it be possible to install Kali Tools (katoolin) on Raspbian? If so, creating a facebook phishing page with S.E.T. and walking around with the Pi powered on in my backpack with a "Free WiFi" open access point would be a very easy way to get some login info, right? Maybe even using a GSM module to actually give fuckers free wifi and do some XSS.
Any of you has experience powering the Pi through a power bank or something like that to give me and estimate on average uptime?

Can't wait to try that, but unfortunatelly my SD card died on me, now I'll have to wait for my chink sharks to arrive. And probably buy a new power bank that gives out at least 2.5A.

>tfw want to setup pi-hole
>can't configure DHCP on a router level
what's the point in living

I use my PI for a portable emulator unoriginal I know but it's pretty cool IMO.

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I used mine for librebooting my thinkpads. The GPIO pins can be used to write data directly to a BIOS chip.

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that's actually pretty fucking cool

Thanks. Here is my libre x200. The x200 has the BIOS chip right under the palm rest, which made it very easy to flash.

Lenovo decided to design the t400 and t500 so that you have to remove every screw in the laptop along with the heatsink to get to their BIOS chips. This is the t400 motherboard:

I record the inside/outside temperature and humidity in my room. Currently pushing the data to plotly to graph in real time but am looking into storing the data in a database.

Also, I decided to fix that design flaw with my rotary tool.

check to see if there is a carbon monoxide leak in your room, because there is literally no reason to waste your time with that shit

any router with ddwrt on it, I would think

I had a time series project and could have blown it away with a unique dataset like this. Good on you.

I kekd.

I just took mine completely apart (and cleaned it) then soldered a 0.1 inch header via some short pieces of ethernet wires to make it accessible with minimal disassembly on mine.

Hooray for Libreboot T400!

That sounds interesting, do you have any pictures?

I just use it for coursework really, but I like it and keep my secret journal on there.

how did you go about charging people, i got 150 a month on azure and no idea what to do with it

>teamspeak server
>ARM
what form of sorcery is this?

I don't remember... I'll check.
Probably do.

I think I've got others, but this one was still on the camera from when I was troubleshooting why it seemed to work but wouldn't flash properly.

+1 internet if you immediately see why it didn't work.

And to make it more relevant (sort of) to the thread, I used a beaglebone black to do the flashing. Not a Pi, but the same idea.

So did you leave that connected? After the first flash you are able to perform software flashes, right?

hidden seedbox in workplace

Yep.

I initially installed it several months ago, then covered the pins with a bit of tape to keep them from shorting on the case, then had to pull the keyboard off and break out the beagle again becuase I'd bricked it with a bad flash (bad config options) via software, which is exactly why I left in in.

Cool. With the case mod I did I just need to remove the palm rest and keyboard to get to the chip, and it is open to the clip now. I barely had to remove any metal, and it did not affect the structural integrity in any noticeable way.

I am still working on librebooting the t400, I keep getting a black screen, but when I flash back to the nonfree bios everything displays fine.

I am waiting on the clip for the 4mb chip on my t500 as well, but I modified the case while I had it disassembled so that I don't have to take it apart again.

I need help with this. I have a x200 and a x200t. Can you share the guides you used?

Here is the guide I used:

github.com/bibanon/Coreboot-ThinkPads/wiki/X200-X201-Hardware-Flashing-with-Raspeberry-Pi

Used a raspberry pi to control the hvac system of a company.

thank you. Did you have to use a beagle bone black or did the RPi work?

Were you trying to destroy their data tapes

I used a raspberry pi. Everything is basically the same except you use a different number for the spidev.

Also, I found that it was a lot easier to ssh into the pi than to use a monitor and keyboard plugged into the pi. There were a lot less cables to deal with and a smaller chance of bumping the bios clip.

Is the screen >= 1440x900?
If so, it's probably the dual link issue described here:
libreboot.org/docs/hcl/gm45_lcd.html

I've got the 1440x900 screen, so I get a black screen as well, but after tinkering with it and hearing the beep (which I think they removed from the default) in grub.cfg, I realized it was working and I was able to blindly type something in, and eventually replaced the built in grub.cfg with one customized with my kernel commnand line, and got it to boot with out being able to see anything from GRUB.

That could be it, I have not checked the screen resolution, I got my t400 free from work and I have not used it with the nonfree BIOS. I will try that once I get back to working on that, thanks.

No problem, bruh.
A quick way to test if it is working if there's no beep, is just mash the C a bunch of times to get a command line, press enter a couple of times to clear the extra C's you typed then type 'halt' then hit enter and see if it shuts off again. If so, you know it's working.

It's also possible to set up EHCI debug and have access to the output via a serial console, but I haven't tried it yet so I don't know how easy or hard it is to get working.

It's probably also possible to get output via external VGA after reconfiguring and rebuilding, but I haven't tested it because I haven't bothered fixing the issue that bricked mine and required the use of that header and restoring the previous version.

I just remembered that I did try outputting to VGA and I did not get any output.

nice libreboot sticker!

I'm scared to flash my x200t chip. I have to resolver a new one on..

>Is it worth the price?
Easily.

many people use it as a server to make a vpn or others uses like this, that is underusing the capacity of the board
>the main advantage of the raspberry is its graphical processing power, apart from the fact that it's running linux it's the only plus of the raspberry
the raspberry pi or banana pi is also used to learn embedded linux for students or childs

>the cards itself is worth its price
BUT depending on what your project is i would rather recomend a MBED board or PSoC 5LP board both are much cheaper and have great capacity (you can even consider an arduino depending on your project but it is rarely worth the price)
>imo 90% of the raspberry actually sold are underused and can be replaced by cheaper board

I have installed on my RPi a DNS-Server with bind9. I have also include a block-list which I compile the syntax for the bind9. At the moment he blocks more than 33k domains which are ad-domains, melicious-domains and malware-domains. It's very cool and helpful gadget.

I use mine as a videorecorder and webserver for small, low bandwidth stuff.

The DVB-T dongle cost me 17 Euros and pulls too much power from the USB port, so I had to get a 12 Euro USB hub with external power for it. I got the drivers from linuxtv.org and installed vdr and vdradmin. I'm currently not streaming from the RasPi, but pulling off the recorded files to edit out advertisement breaks on my PC before watching stuff.

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not him but a google search worked well
eltechs.com/run-teamspeak-3-server-on-raspberry-pi/

I made mine into a synthesizer/sampler without any external libs. Just C and Lisp from the ground up.

Learned a shitload about how sound is represented digitally and synthesis in general.

Personal cloud, of course
arkos.io/what-is-arkos/
(not using exactly that, but some of the applications they use)

Why use it for a cloud/server/etc purposes when you can just buy an old PC for next to nothing?

lower power consumption and it's only £30 to begin with, costs less than £5 to run it on full load for a year

A pi makes zero noise and uses like 1000 times less power than an old desktop.

What they said, you need to check your full TCO.

Obviously when you need more power, Pi is not your best fit. But for IO (eg. owncloud) it's preety sweet, and has lots of support for noobs.

I've heard it emulates a Raspberry Pi quite well

Well, if you want to pay for the power usage, go for it big boi

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and yeah it's worth the money if you're really into computers and development. A lot of educational uses behind it.

I waited half of a fucking year for my $9 CHIP pc and it's coming by next week, I got a tracking number and I've been following it.

Really curious to see what I can do with it. I'm going to load it up hardcore with as many server applications as possible.

It's going to be running torrents, ftp server, have an old webcam connected to it taking security pictures whenever it catches somebody, lurking my favorite irc channels 24/7, and more stuff that I can't immediately think of.

I got one with modified PiFM script that I use to broadcast anti-government propaganda.
I hooked it up to bus, and used the bus's antenna for increasing the range.
It's been six months now, And they haven't figured it out.

Do you get internet for free?

jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-zero-power
In my experience a 10000 mAh power bank , was enough for a whole day.

Choosing what to wear.
I used met.no API to see what's the weather would be like, and sorted my clothes into warm,cold and hot.
And since I do my laundry every week, I made it so it doesn't pick the same cloth twice.
It shows the weather forecast and what I should wear on the LCD, Also it acts as a wake up alarm.

Literally bought a few months ago and didnt touch it for a while.
I ended up just using as a proxy to block ads from my iphone.
As well as add a scheduled capture of my lounge using a ps3 eye toy I plugged in.

Too much Mr. Robot, huh :D

kek That sounds like fun.
What are you broadcasting and where in the bus did you hide it?