Pi ideas

What are you doing with yours? Mine comes in a few days and I want ideas.

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Kodi/emulator

I plan to use mine as a mediaplayer for my TV. Currently use it as a quake iii server

Seedbox

First thing I did with mine was fuck around with Scratch because it comes with Raspbian.

Then I set up an Apache web server with a self-certified certificate.

Then I bought a camera module (and new case) and set up a website with a time-delay image that looked out of my bedroom window that I could log in to (via ssl) and view on my phone.

Then I uninstalled all of that shit and put Kodi on it.

Emulating what?

How well can a Pi3 run 1080p videos? Will it be problematic?

Gateway for external entrance to home network via reverse ssh tunnel.

might wanna overclock it and make sure you have a 5V cord
I use mine as a torrent box. Usually let it run all night. Had a second one for Retropie but gave it away to a friend. I had planned to build a portable game console but the screen I got has such terrible latency that you can't play action games.
For the record I purchased an Adafruit 480x320 3.5" TFT, and it sounds like all of the smaller TFTs do not have the same latency issues; only the 3.5" has issues.

Videogames

I've been running a Raspberry PI since 2012 to automatically create "What should I do with this Raspberry Pi?" threads on Sup Forums at random intervals.

Or that's what it seems like at least.

Headless server to ssh into, pretty good for my tui apps. Also gogs.

And a zero running pihole.

I made it because these threads are actually creative and noncancer, unlike dpt

I will give it a go. It's so cheap anyways. Can always use it for nes and snes emulation I guess.

I used mine to build an online controlled vibrator to use when I stream on cam4

I've purchased 5-6 of these awesome little boards over time and used them for various projects.

1. OpenELEC is a great way to run Kodi. Great home media / home theater setup.
2. Lakka is great for emulating older video game consoles from atari to playstation/n64 era.
3. I have one running raspbian that I use as a cheap, always on and silent OpenVPN server so I can browse porn at work and generally fuck around without being snooped.
4. I have another one set up as a wireless audio station connected to speakers. The project name is Pi Music box.

There are so many awesome things you can do with these.

I made a cloud out of one. It's pretty nice.

Help

>2014 or something, shit I don't know
>Raspberry pi first announced
>Hype.jpg
>Sup Forums is losing their mind over it
>give in to the hype and buy one, a case, heatsinks, and a cute little fan
>set it all up and start poking around the OS
>boring, nothing to do
>go on Sup Forums to see what cool stuff everyone else has done
>nobody has anything genuinely interesting to do
>a select amount of anons run a server or torrent box on it, but it's useless
>the pi threads begin to dwindle, and disappear from Sup Forums
>hundreds of autistic neets now posting with a dusty raspberry pi sitting somewhere in their basement

Are there really no uses for these stupid little things?

For about $50-$60 total (including usb gamepads), you can have an awesome retro-emulation console that emulates and stores every Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis game ever made. How is that not genuinely interesting? I have two for this purposes in different rooms.

I sense a lack of imagination on your part

Web Server

So a Wii

I made a sex toy and I aptly named it an assberry pi

>Are there really no uses for these stupid little things?
Shit loads of uses, but WHAT do you want to get out it?

how to hardware decode videos on Raspberries without paying the licenses?

Shit, good case. Have a normal one and my camera setup is subpar.

Anyone try the updated camera module?

>there are just no uses for them
>muh server
>muh emulator
>hue hue u waste moniez
Fuck you all. It's not hard to do a quick search for this stuff. Get creative.

...but with broader peripheral support while consuming less power
There are advantages and disadvantages both but they fill different niches

When I say retro pi station, I mean retro. As such my planned retro pi has a 4" black and white CRT, and is mounted in a miniature arcade cabinet I designed myself. Pic related is the necked CRT.

I'm going to use an old third party Xbox 360 controller to matrix and control the control panel. 2 player with 5 buttons each in an again custom layout.


I also have a old pico projector (almost exactly the same size as the pi) that barely out preforms the pi's video quality with a qHD display. I obviously plan on setting that up with a pi for a portable media center. Both take USB power, both support hdmi...

Looks like the camera you used is retro too

i'm looking into making a knock sensor for my front door that would notify me whenever someone knocks in case I have headphones on in my room.

google shows results for projects involving either arduino or pi, which one would be easier to set up?

Is there a retard guide for setting up OpenVPN, I've got it installed and running, opened up a port on the pi and forwarded one on my router but I still can't connect to it.

Like it?

my friend had an extra screen and turned his into an rss news reader / irc reader

I have done a bunch of stuff owncloud vpn torrent box but I also have a freenase server which has bsd/unix jails. And everything Ive done with a pi ends up doing better just sitting in a jail.

I now use it for working on things in python before they are complete and get moved to a jail.

Honestly they are not strong enough for video games unless you are poor enough that the price matters.

Gonna have a terrible time at the airport with this.

A magic mirror for.muh girl

cool clock ahmed, would you like to bring it to the whitehouse?

Hi guys,

i asked about power supply issues/rpi falling asleep or getting unaccessible after some time... I tried as advised with a better power supply - 2A from my rn3p, and it managed to last a lot longer, i think. Should it make any difference if there are a lot of thing plug into the same extender with the rpi ? The one I used first was with all my computer stuff, the second one with all the tv stuff + Router.
I can't find a decent free outlet just for the rpi to test, except on the balcony, but will do in the coming days. Would like to hear some opinion on it beforehand.

>not mine

Pi-hole.
DNS adblocker for your router.
Look it up its awesome

It's now the only computer I own, as a media center

What have I done with my life ?

Pi 2 is permanent audio hub with mopidy and plugins (airplay client, youtube, spotify, etc)

Pi 3 is media center in another location with kodi

for a nice while, i did the same with my Pi1B - scored a nice portable tv/radio combo at a thrift store that did A/V (mono) input. still do it for things like cottage trips etc.

> Deluge box (not really anymore since I have a remote torrent box)
> Plex Media Server
> Pi-Hole DNS
> Samba Share

Thinking of getting a Banana Pi Pro since I do a lot more file management type stuff and I can only get 10 MB/s transfer speed on my Pi 2+, the Pi 3+ doesn't seem to be any faster due to the 10/100 port limitation and the fact the USB and Ethernet share the same chip.

Youtube-dl 24/7

Is there a program that just downloads youtube videos one by one?

Youtube-dl?

Huh interesting. Is there something like that for piratebay?

you can use a site or extension like ClipConverter for your browser

Are you actually retarded?

W2c tiny crt

If you're into web dev, run a website or cool little web app.
If you're into image processing, make a surveillance camera with motion detection to email you when somebody walks in to a room. Bonus points if you get it to not email you when you yourself walk into the room.
Otherwise, various servers, seedbox, emulator, Kodi, etc.
If you're too stupid to buy a raspberry pi without knowing what to do with it, you deserve to waste that money.

Maybe? I'm not sure, is it obvious how to download all torrents one by one, automatically?

I'm using mine to replace my car gps. Building custom software on Windows 10 Iot. Not impressed with performance tho (pi 3), but it's better than my current shitty one.

Windows UWP is pretty sweet tho. Map Control, Speech Synthesis/Recognition.

do you mean you wanna see it? takes a bunch of C cells as well, so it's decent for travelling.

Crap phone camera that is missing the dust cover on the lens. Then cropped. Phone is actually only a couple years old.

That is actually that that screen I from. It had a fluorescent work light and a flash light also on mine. I picked it up at an estate sale for $5

Hi guys. I have absolutely zero experience on servers and all that kind of stuff so I might just ask in this thread.
I've been thinking to buy some space on HostGator to finally make my own webpage. Can I use a Rasperry Pi instead? Is it a viable/better alternative? Is there something else related to my website I can use one for (I only have money for one at the moment)?
Thanks in advance.

mine has no lights on it, but i tossed a dead one that had it all in it, as the ballast was shot, and the tube had a crack, sadly. i retained the body so i can make a battery back for camping, with a USB converter on it, for powering phones or LED lights. Mine's got AM/FM, OTA/Line-In TV (Mono A/V & the 3.5mm inputs), with a nice battery bank on the bottom. i paid $8 at a Salvation Army thrift store in my area that turns up some treasures.

How does this Pi-hole work?

Do you need to have a switch or something? How do you add the Pi to your network?
Can you just connect it to your router via WiFI?

I use it to VNC to my server to watch the server and the Pi is connected to a TV mounted to the wall.

i use mine for dc++

sheeeeet

people still use dc++?

can i join your hub? how are the speeds?

>Rasperry Pi
Fuck
I have done that is not difficult but think about why do you need a sever ?
Is it worth all the risk?
>>if yes
Use a ddns is free and it works pretty nice

>people still use dc++?
Not that user, but it's my main source of pirating.
Primary hub I'm on has: 20mbit upload speed and 2TB share required, TLS encryption and around 1000 users.

>20mbit upload speed and 2TB share required

u fucking wot m8

it's just a few people on a private hub, nothing too exciting.

Most people have closer to 4TB shared and 100mbit speeds, so it's been talk of raising minimum requirements actually.
If you donate hardware (mainly in the form of harddrives) to the servers or dumps you can get vip for a year with no uptime/sharing/speed reqs.

Raspberry Pi because there is a lot more documentation.

ill stick to private trackers, thanks

you assign your router or device's DNS IP to the RPi and it blocks traffic coming from ads. It's like adblock except you don't have to run it on your computer/device

but how do you connect the pi?

im a little confused here because the pi has only 1 LAN port, so do you just plug it straight into the router or how?

I have it in a drawer and don't use it.

>do you just plug it straight into the router
yes

k thanks.

can you connect it to a router via WIFI? it should also work, no?

It will work with WiFi

Remote & scheduled Wake on LAN server.
Cold mornings are comfy when my desktop PC warms the room with Folding@Home.

I use mine for datamining @ home...
im clustering 4 raspberry pi 3 model b.
Thats 16 [email protected], cost me ~$150. not bad.

super pitendo fag here. with the pi it's not just about the current, but the voltage. i was having stability issues with my oc'd pi with a keyboard+gamepad connected, and it turned out the pi was only getting 4.8 volts, even though the output from my PSU read 5.0 volts in a multimeter. i tried different usb cables with no effect, so i guess all my cables are shit.

luckily i had bought a regulated switching psu for the project and thus i was able to tune the output voltage until the pi was getting just shy of 5.1 volts. after that i was unable to make it crash after a 24h burn test @ 1350MHz. you can find similar psu's for 5 dollarinoos at chinkexpress

>I want a little TV like that now
More things to look for at the local thrift-shops

no, but a crawler could do that?

whats that power supply with 4 USB outs or is that just a USB hub?

if it is a hub how do you power it?

What do you mine that needs 4 Pi 3s?

does it play youtube videos?

I bought a specialty usb charging hub on amazon, designed for quick-charge devices..

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I located one that supplies up to 10A@5V across 5 ports... I only use 4 ports so I can draw up to 2.5A from each port for the Pi's

sweet, thanks

are the Pis on amazon safe from fakes?

yes

only ebay does that shit

thanks

Im datamining twitter.

Twitter developer portal has built-in rate limiting to attempt to prevent this sort of thing (Such as limiting GET requests to 75000 per 15 mins)

I have one set of twitter developer keys for each core of the R.Pi's. This way, each Pi can run 4 datamining scripts in parallel, one for each core.

man i found all kinds of good shit, even in this podunk little town im in. i bought ten VHS cassettes yesterday, and one is rare as rockinghorse shit! pic related - only version of this cut available on the home market, as it was meant only for broadcast.

anyone know if it's possible to get emulationstation without installing retropie?

what do you use the data for?

but why?

Holy shit if you make money off of that, thats a pretty damn smart idea. 4 tiny computers and you've probably made a lot more than they're worth.

Im still in college. Hoping at some point Ill have a large enough DB of social networking info I can just sell it as a service and live easy.

Its already pretty neat. All the data is kept in a MySQL db. I can do things like search for every user living in california who speaks arabic who has the name Ahemd...

Not that I care who lives in california or speaks what languages, but certain people care about that sort of thing and would pay good money for a database with aggregated social media information... I mean anyone from law enforcement to advertising analytics corporations would want access to a service like that

Ya my point exatly.
Thats like what the guys who started google did. Used a bunch of cheap hardware they could afford and clustered it into something that did something cool

>I mean anyone from law enforcement to advertising analytics corporations would want access to a service like that

you know they can just ask Twitter right?

This is probably the first time someone has actually done something useful with their Pi. Useful as in, he puts 40$ into the Pi and comes out with a thousand.