What are good projects for a raspberry pi planning on buying one soon but can't think of anything beyond media center...

What are good projects for a raspberry pi planning on buying one soon but can't think of anything beyond media center and arcade machine

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then for you, it is a meme

come up with cool ideas then write some python & you have yourself a cheap server to host your projects

use to massage your prostates

rpi is a meme. Get Odroid or something else. rPi is very shitty for it's price tag.

install FreeBSD and run a little nginx web server

are you literally me?

Build a moe robot.

Create a rectal cavity exploration device

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I ran freebsd on my rpi once. It's slow af.
Fedora is also slow. Ubuntu is a bit better.

What model?

Dust collecting paperweight.

What can it do besides run a homepage/private inbox?

>you have yourself a cheap server to host your projects
This. It's a good educational tool for simple prototypes.

hackaday.io/projects/tag/raspberry pi

Personal server (DNS, VPN, slow cloud, private webserver).

You can have it do any task that takes a long time, but isnt resource-intensive (e.g. torrents, some automation).

Alternatively you can use it to destroy offline backup sites, but thats a one time use scenario.

I mean the Nintendo nes being released is why I figured I'd.jusy make a more feature rich one for.my house I don't think it's crazy coincidence lol
What could I do with Odroid then

why would you buy something you have no need for?

you run Raspbian you dumbfuck

I use mine as a media center, but I feel like I do it a little differently. OSMC, but it has a uses a davfs connection as a source over ssl. All I need is a 10 mbps connection and I have all 4tb of my media seamlessly integrated into kodi anywhere. simple apache2 config.

Not that user, but Odroids are much more powerful, with better CPU/GPU, GbE, more RAM...

Can also run android, but dont have as big a community.

If you have Linux/Programming knowledge Odroids are nice, for beginners a Pi is probably better.

>shilling this hard

>media center and arcade machine

that's basically the only thing it's good for. i use mine for kodi

GPU support for Mali GPUs on GNU id horrible, though.

Broadcom's VideoCore proprietary shit in the Pi is 100x worse.

build a keyboard.

install caustic on it, make a custom midi controller keyboard, download or buy caustic sound packs.

let me rephrase the question. What would I be able to do with an extra computer that would be beneficial. Having another computer just to program python or run android on it seems dumb to me when I have other computers to do that and an android phone. Do you guys just code your own Linux on it to test or something?

Servers seem like a good idea but I'm racking my brain on what I would use a server for

None of it is wrong though.

Yeah, Im noticing that on the NextThingCo Chip now. But it is what it is, can only get better.

With a Mali you can play FOSS shit like Quake 3 just fine, the support is great.

You can't do that on a Pi.

>he thinks mali isn't proprietary
Enjoy your generic frame buffer

How's a pi 2 when playing 720p x264 upscaled to 1080 vía kodi ? Will you recommend a pi 3 for a buffier processor ?

Thinking on buying 2 pi . one as a seedbox/NFS and the second one connected to the TV for media center .

Any issues with kodi?

I use one as a stable server, one to test/play around with.

If I fuck up severely I rewrite the SD, no loss.

You can also use them to upgrade old speakers to Airplay speakers that can stream music from anywhere etc.

Sometimes its just handy to have some spare computer that is always on. But I have just one Laptop and no desktop, so maybe its different for me.

i have a pi 3. i don't really know the difference between a pi 2 and pi 3 because i've only owned a pi 3

i would buy a pi 3 since it's an upgraded version of a pi 2. pi 2 is probably slower. a pi 3 doesn't cost that much more than a pi 2. probably like 5 dollars more.

Nothing you said is accurate.

I use mine as the central controller for my Beer pong table, controlling slave microcontrollers via I2C
pi3 has wifi and bluetooth too

Not only are there working Mali open source drivers, there are working proprietary drivers for both Linux and Android.

With a Pi you don't even get regular OpenGL and there is zero acceleration in Android.

Pi = Broadcom cuck.

The Mali Open source drivers aren't great yet, but on the right way. With ARM you cant avoid blobs either way, to this day at least.
Although it seems more effort is made by sunxi

>Not only are there working Mali open source drivers
Thanks to ARM, they are not
>there are working proprietary drivers for Android.
OpenGL ES
>With a Pi you don't even get regular OpenGL
OpenGL 2.0 with the work Eric Anholt has done
>Pi = Broadcom cuck.
Take 5 seconds to do some research. The Linux Mali drivers are little more than a generic frame buffer. Everything is being done in software.

How the fuck haven't I seen this before?
it's a fucking rasp pi laptop. if they could make one with a trackpoint it'd be my perfect computer.

seedbox

you can barely browse the web with the raspberry pi. why the fuck would i want that?

because i don't do anything with computers other than web browsing, office stuff, and fap.
this would cut out a lot of the corporofascist bullshit i hate about computers.

you can't browse the web(unless you want to wait forever for a webpage to load) or look at porn videos with the raspberry pi, dude.

porn videos don't play on the raspberry pi because has a shitty cpu. you can only play videos via kodi which utilizes the ram and gpu in order to play them.

All things considering, ARM is worse when it comes to opensource than Intel or AMD.

porn videos via the browser on the raspberry pi*

so porn is out, but i don't care about page speed.

you can play porn with youtube-dl + omxplayer

Why don't you stop shilling VideoCore its trash.

Just don't buy Broadcom it shouldn't even be about brand x and brand y.

Shut up pissphone

In addition to a Raspberry Pi 1/2/3, I have an Odroid U2 and Cubieboard 1. If anyone is shilling here speaking straight up bullshit, it's you friend.

That shit's $300, senpai. Refurbished T420s are much more powerful and you can find them well under $200.

Alternatively, if you're that paranoid, get an old T60 or something, which is even cheaper and still more powerful.

Use Arch for arm. Is pretty snappy and almost exactly like the desktop ver. You can even dload from the AUR as long as you edit the .PKGBUILD

Practice admining it as a server, create ssh keys for it, host a vanity website over your local network

I am getting a banana network 4-port for Christmas. Turning it into a network tap.

Not that user, but there's a specific kodi version for raspberry pi's. I put it on a B+ and it freezes when I try to do anything resource intensive, get a 3 + a good power adapter if you want to do this

>No 10bit H.264 support
Its shit.

I have a Pi B, one of the first models
It often freezes up after ~20 min of use, sometimes less
Do these things often overheat?
Are heatsinks/fans necessary usually?

Also considering getting an orange pi or something similar for an arcade build as I'm not too confident in the RPi's specs. Any recommendations on which?
I've seen orange and banana pi around a lot and I'm going to look into cheap single boards from aliexpress as well

I've been talking myself out of buying the desktop version

It's only $99 but I know I wouldn't use it at all

But it's so gorgeous like a modern Twentieth Anniversary Mac and it only uses 5 watts to power the whole computer holy shit

For a Pi 3 and OrangePis a heatsink is recommended to avoid throttling. I bought 50 small heatsinks for 2 Euros in China. OrangePis should be used with Armbian.

Dosbox games senpai

I used mine for librebooting my x200, t400, and t500. It works very well for hardware flashing. You can send whatever you want through the GPIO pins, and it even supplies 3.3v power for you, so there is no need for an external PSU.

...

Travel to a random country like British Virgin Isles and break into a optical fiber hub and set it up as a VPN (off the grid)

Honestly besides a media center or an emulation box, they're pretty useless, unless you do shit with arduinos or something.

Even then, a friend of mine just purchased the newest revision of the FireTV Stick, and after testing it out myself it actually does a better job of being a media center because:

>tiny form factor
>Kodi installation is easy, takes less than 5 minutes with no special programs, you do it all on the device
>can play 1080p rips with no stutters
>bluetooth capable (BT keyboards/game controllers)
>still able to play Netflix and other sources of media not available on Kodi-only devices
>can run retroarch as well, with said BT controllers

Downsides are obviously no usb ports/ethernet and >Android, which are a dealbreaker for some. Don't get me wrong, I still love my Pi's, but not having Netflix still is pretty shitty if I'm paying $35 (just for the board) to be used as a media device.

You have a very small chance of actually connecting that to an ISP's internal network and not having it instantly discovered.
Not to mention making it an addressable entity on the internet.

A better solution is to attach it to a business' network, which has very high uptime, or a home network, where it is not likely to be discovered.

It's a cheap server that uses next to no power.
It's also pretty good for embedded projects, like attaching sensors or maybe as a networked serial interface.
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I've thought about getting one as a sort of upgrade to the ECU of my 86 Nissan, so I can do things like view/log sensor values and function as an integrated anti-theft system.

>no ethernet
dropped
>no usb
lel

That's why I said "dealbreaker for some." For those who are just looking for a thin client media center to tie into external sources, such as Plex/YouTube/Netflix/Kodi addons, it's a good buy for $40 total.

Nice idea but i've connected to a local one a few times and it's used for testing. Never had a problem. I just assumed that most if not all sites have a similar feature.

Pi 3 has opengl and hardware acceleration

Not sure what exactly you're doing then, because our fiber vaults are SONET, and we're running IS-IS on our internal network.

You'd have to find some way to interface the rpi with a SONET network, and then connect to a fiber pair, disconnecting the circuit in the process.

Maybe it's something else you're plugging into, because I have a hard time believing that an teleco would have closets with random externally routable ethernet ports on them.

I've seen some of these on YouTube and they look quite nice. Just lacking decent navigation software.

I'd probably use an android tablet for those sweet, sweet google maps.

The pi wouldn't have a display, just a bluetooth interface for a laptop/tablet.

Mostly good for anything that requires a small, cheap and disposable computer. You could build robots with it, use it as a seedbox, hook up a camera and make a home security system, even make a small but super rugged laptop out of it to use for work if you do something dangerous where you may need to leave equipment behind. There are lots of uses for those things, but if you don't know what to do with it then don't buy one.

Do you live in the US? How much would it cost to get my T400 Librebooted?

You can get a clip for under $10 on ebay and any raspberry pi will work for the flashing.

The x200 was really easy because the BIOS chip is right under the palm rest. On the larger laptops it is under the metal cage, so you need to remove almost every screw in the laptop, along with removing the heatsink(you will have to reapply your thermal paste). I modified the metal cage with a rotary tool so that I will never have to do that again. After the initial flash the only reason you would have to do a hardware flash again would be if you enabled the write protection, otherwise you can flash from inside the OS after that.

This is the guide I used:

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

will we ever get a fully open source videocore driver for the pi's?

Torrent box with Plex server installed.

Use rTorrent, ruTorrent to throw it a torrent from anywhere in the world, tell it what folder to throw it into, Plex will pick it up automatically.

Quick give me tips to stay hidden from my government xD

If you have a ps4 and an old Logitech wheel, you might want to look at gimx.
You can also use it as a seedbox using transmission-daemon or a media center using osmc or libreelec.
If on an rpi3 you could probably do both at the same time.
If you want a more time intensive project, you could try building a gameboy zero with an RPI zero.
There's a lot you can do, as long as you're not a lazy fuck as all the other people here are.

when i get the balls to take apart the dash in my bmw i'm going to switch out the display for the idrive. mine is older, and it didnt' have navigation, bluetooth, or auxiliary input. i'm going to throw a pi in there with an equivalent size HD touchscreen display and a 4g dongle as well as gps. i even found a thing to interface with the knob for the idrive menu.

The Pi Zero is so underpowered for a nice handheld. It would be nice to have a thin Orange Pi or equivalent.

seti@home

I'm considering making mine into a security camera.

you could always make a slack client for commodore.

1amstudios.com/2016/11/27/c64-slack-client/

who cares about maxing performance when it comes to a $25 gadget.

the rpi has way better community and library support than the odroid

OP, you can script it to do anything you want. I used mine to automatically download youtube videos of people I'm following. then I ran a minidlna server on it so that I could watch the downloaded videos instantly from my ps3.

It could collect any kind of data for you that you'd like, show any kind of visualization on a screen you'd like, play music, ...

you just have to program it

by what metric? They have all contributed to FOSS projects bigtime. When it comes to their processors, ARM is much more open with their architecture & details (but then, that's just part of their business model.) All three of them also have large closed-source projects they are unwilling to open-source (e.g. AMD & ARM have drivers for their GPUs, intel has icc, ARM has keil, ...)

Intel has the whole vpro and IMEI bullshit, which raises some red flags when it comes to privacy and security against surveillance. That may be the most worrying

but the other two also have varying amounts of bullshit TPM modules etc

Bots. Anything small that just has to run and respond, or scripts running via cronjob checking conditions.

...if you are into software development, that is.

I have so far made a small file server + bot installation for my discord channel, and am working on a twitter bot who will shitpost every 60 minutes and also react to certain words to reply-shitpost.

It also taught me about dyn-ip and what I have to do to connect home via SSH. Well, and also basic bash for that matter.

I use mine as a vpn. It's pretty useless for anything else.

A magic mirror.
raspberrypi.org/blog/magic-mirror/

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Thermostat and whole house power consumption monitor

LED behind TV ambient lighting that changes colors with what's on your screen

Automated garden that waters and fertilizes itself

Alarm system

Build a clock?

>want buy one
>no idea that to do with that
Literally consumer whore

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