I setup mine to host a blog on my raspi2. Using hugo for it, which works pretty great until now. github.com/spf13/hugo Maybe I'll move from apache2 down to lighttp, but not sure yet. Does any one know if it would theoretically be faster?
Also using it as a VPN gateway to access muh home network. using pivpn for it. Holy shit. This is really fuckin comfy to setup. pivpn.io/
Model A (256MB RAM): functioning as a webcam with the pi camera and uploads a picture to my VPS every 5 minuts. Also I attached a AM2302 sensor to print the temperature and humidity onto the taken picture with imagemagick. I'm runnning arch linux arm on it. Model A+ (512MB RAM): running a tor node (no exit) running raspian Model B V1.1: laying around my desk, I'm using it for long running task like badblocksscan of old harddrives etc. running raspian right now
Lucas Edwards
Running Retropie with a iBuffalo USB gamepad. I also use it to run kodi through the ports section in emulation station. It's the Pi 3 Model B.
Bentley Myers
Dollecting cust
Brayden Brooks
Anyone have any cool home automation projects theyve done with theirs?
Ethan Richardson
Currently running pi-hole on it. Best use for otherwise nearly useless hardware, would highly recommend.
Josiah Rogers
I have a Pi 3 and Pi Zero on my desk now. I'm going to use the Pi 3 to manage a few cron jobs on my home network. Haven't figured out anything cool for my the Zero yet. Maybe make a bedside alarm clock since I'm currently using an iPad.
You could fuckin configure everything you need on it, but I was too lazy to make myself a cool monitor showing all kinds of data n shit. A touchscreen on muh wall would have been nice to control everything and show like weather data or shit. Maybe someday I'll try it again
Easton Cooper
just use nginx ya dingus
Jordan Stewart
Riot.im/matrix dedicated server
Isaiah Thompson
mine runs a weatherstation which measures humidity, temperature, pressure and windspeed; a python script logs all data and saves the plots into the path of the webserver, so i can view it from my network
Owen Green
It's my aarch64 osdev platform, currently working on a Forth OS. I know raspberry's are not ideal for that because of the closed gpu firmware, but it has so many convenient peripheral support that makes it easy to setup a mini tft screen and usb ftdi cable for communication and visual feedback. Ultimately I will probably make my own board, but for now the pi3 is sufficient.
Mason Parker
>What's yours doing? Gathering dust on a shelf since I found out how limited it is.
Josiah Scott
>pihole >apache to hold my projects >vsftp to move exploits in my lab >minidlna to stream porn to my ipad
Thats about all I think. Set it to be ssh key only so Im fine with it being public facing.
Carson Martin
Retropie on a 3B with my Dualshock 4, I'm currently learning programming though so I'll hopefully figure out something more exciting to do with it later
Jonathan Wood
Where do you learn about this stuff?
Hunter Thompson
installed Arch with i3 on it use it for chromium/torrenting/vlc/NAS/and like FTP server so i can grab my files from remote locations
Jose Hall
mine sits in a drawer gathering dust, because actually doing things besides posting on Sup Forums and browsing other sites, while eating and occasionally browsing other sites and watching netflix/hulu, WHY CAN'T I JUST DO THINGS.
Easton Cooper
>WHY CAN'T I JUST DO THINGS. you can. Just start right now. Start with anything. It doesnt even matter what you do. Just start.
Jeremiah Roberts
retro gaymen
Gavin Nelson
links look interesting, thanks for sharing OP.
Jason Russell
Not him, but I can tell you from experience that you can learn to write an OS by lurking on Sup Forums and watching anime all day.
Jose Hernandez
Mine is an Orange Pi Zero with a 2TB hard drive via USB but it's doing the same shit most Pis do, works as a VPN gateway, Seedbox, a mini samba NAS and Owncloud.
$11 well spent imo.
Luis Watson
Powers my file server. Stream anime to my computer from wherever and upload my files for later use.
Adrian Perez
not bad desu
Sebastian James
...
Austin Barnes
what
Isaiah Peterson
I have mine running nodejs and a bunch of Sup Forums/reddit scraping scripts I wrote during a time in my life when I was in love with javascript.
It also runs a webcam and humidity/temp sensor for my ball python enclosure.
I am thinking of getting a second one for retro games, but I've done that project a couple times now and it never seems to actually get much use once it's completed, it may just not be for me.
The Pi3 makes a pretty decent development station, I may use it to make an ultra-slim workstation out of an extra monitor I have and setup a development machine at my solder station in the garage.
Noah Jenkins
I primarily use it as a SPI flasher, and I use it to play with i2c as well, which can be a pain in the ass cause the 3.3v reg on the original pi is shit (and the 5v honestly), I am thinking about just making a ATMega daughter board specifically for working with SPI flash in 8 pin and 16 pin variants.
I was running FreeBSD on it for around a year but now I am running Funtoo and cross compiling shit for it. I would like to get into bare metal development on the arm platform sometime as well, but I am still working on my x86 kernel so that is going to have to wait.
I have been considering getting a Pi3 just because of the switching mode regulator vs the linear regulator and the 3.3v supply on the Pi3 is apparently much improved
Anyone who says there is nothing to do on the rpi just doesn't know what they are doing.
Lucas Morales
I have a pi mini rigged up inside of a small enclosure with a portable battery pack. The battery pack is powerful enough to power the pi even with wifi blasting for about twelve hours. I have a few of those tiny flash drives attached, about 512GB of storage total. A local coffee shop to me has fiber internet and never changes the password. I go in there, and inside their bathroom I place the enclosure (about the size of a thick cell phone) in the ceiling on top of the wall. The tiles are loose and lift right up.
I connect to it from home and use the transmission remote to download whatever I want. I go in the next day to pick it up. I'm thinking of instead hiding it behind the sink in one of the cabinets in there, or finding some way to hide it where it can get power. For now the battery pack is working well.
They also have good sandwiches.
David Ortiz
I played Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for two hours
Lincoln Evans
Mine's tied into an entire collection of home automation tech and running home-assistant to coordinate it all, still playing around with it, but works quite well
>Currently running pi-hole on it Got two currently running for this / local dns purposes, supremely comfy
Kayden Myers
>home automation tech and running home-assistant
Dylan Miller
I am actually doing wifi RC project, and using raspberry pi on it.
Luis Ward
Why do you have a Pi, the controller, AND a breadboard? I'm pretty sure you can Jerryrig the servos directly into part of the Pi, or at least you can with one of the models.
Mason Edwards
yeah im sure I can, but I wanted to practice my soldering, on future project I will be planning to 3d print rc car and use motors, H bridge, ESC, Actually im not sure if I need all of those, but I was just skimming in some guides about it.
Charles Johnson
the breadboard was just for testing purpose, I mean I always figured that is why people use bread boards, to test the wiring before making it final.
Lincoln Hall
how about you stop being a faggot and do it right in the first place then?
fucking retard pifags being a waste of space as usual with MUH HOBBY
Adam Green
no people use breadboards because they fucking suck at planning and design
typical pifag
Matthew Myers
Waiting for a controller for an LCD panel. Building my wife a Magic Mirror for her make up desk.
Leo Campbell
>Hurr my way is the right way, everyone else is doing it wrong
get a load of this guy.
>hurr I am on my high horse, I don't use a breadboard, hurr hurr hurrr
HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Next time add a comma to your sentence. Look like a fucking idiot.
Jaxon Jenkins
>Bitches about punctuation. >Doesn't start sentence with capital letter.
Jonathan Thompson
1 rpi2 & 1 rpi3 running osmc, play videos from lan share, music 1 rpi3 as retropie with a couple shanwan PS3 controllers
Ian Edwards
This is what pifags actually believe
Caleb Murphy
Can you recommend me an HDMI screen or an USB touch screen I can use with it but that doesn't cost too much? (20-25 USD budget).
Chase Edwards
PIFAGGOTRY
Gabriel Walker
>order 4 Orange Pi zeros for $40 >drop each of them in public WiFi with reverse ssh configured
Enjoy.
Charles Allen
>drop each of them in public WiFi with reverse ssh configured I'm a massive pleb but interested, please explain further.
Brody Gomez
>finally got openvpn settings working on my NAS so I can stop using my rpi3 as a torrent box probably going to use it as a plex player for the bedroom. Also have an orange pi zero, but that piece of shit seems useless.
Liam Smith
essentially the ssh connection will come back to you, and then whatever address you provide you can connect back to the orange pi.
google reverse ssh tunnel or just reverse ssh. It will show examples, and explain whats what.
I did this with my 703n with openwrt, had fun with it. I am planning to do it again once I can control my router for port forwarding.
Mason Ramirez
how the fuck do you manage that? I have a opi z too and tried to use it for torrenting. It ran at high load as soon as transmission was installed and was super slow even via ethernet. It would drop to 0kbps constantly and it would max out at about 300kBps. the rpi3 I used the same way downloaded the same torrent over wifi at 2MBps.
Tyler Campbell
I'm using Deluge for the Seedbox part, wanted to use qBittorrent but the WebUI didn't had a method to assign labels.
>It would drop to 0kbps constantly and it would max out at about 300kBps That sounds like my experience with Wi-Fi on the Zero, the Zero wifi sucks massive dick so i removed the antenna and just use the Ethernet. No issues at all and the speedtest-cli test seems fine with my bandwidth (60Mbps DL/20Mbps UL).
Jose Torres
I'm not sure I understand, what's exactly the point?
Jace Williams
hmm, maybe I'll play around with it some more. I don't need a torrenting box anymore but I would like to get some use out of the thing. I was getting bad performance over ethernet with wifi unconfigured, so either transmission sucks ass on this hardware or I'm just getting bad network speeds for some reason.
Aiden Wright
What OS did you use? I'm running the latest version of Armbian and everything runs nicely.
Austin Ross
uh I think it was the legacy version of armbian jessie
Henry Torres
the point is that you can do malicious things, MITM attack is a common one. Packet sniffing, metasploit, etc etc. Anything malicious that seems reasonable. Also why orange pi zeros? Won't you still need >memory, as in sd/micro sd >power?
To be honest, I should pick one up, even though the community isn't as big as raspberry pi.
Parker Thomas
>To be honest, I should pick one up, even though the community isn't as big as raspberry pi. they're cool but yeah don't expect to find straight forward guides for everything you want to do, unlike the pi zero w which everyone is frothing over. Also you may want to pay $1 to get a heatsink for it.
Xavier Gutierrez
From my experience with the Orange Pis you can apply all the guides to do stuff for the RasPi by doing the same steps, it runs Debian after all.
Now about the GPIO stuff i'm not sure.
Cameron Roberts
Thats what I thought myself, like if you ran into a problem you can probably find rpi guide or something on it.
James Price
I've found a few differences between Rasbian and Armbian just in terms of directories and such. Not a big deal unless you were hoping to copy+paste your entire setup without thinking about it. Which a lot of people buying raspberry pis do, so it's worth mentioning.
Brandon Davis
im basically using mine as a home server to run bots on social media.
right now i'm running a discord bot and a twitter bot. i want to run more bots. what kind of bots should i run? im thinking about doing reddit and facebook too.
honestly i have little interest in social media, but bots are fun and seeing people react to them interests me
twitter bot is pic related
Luis Young
at the very least, install pi-hole on the 3. I think the zero can manage that as well, search around. I was thinking of adding squid to my pi3 besides the pihole.
Jace Diaz
Did you really have to name it after Sup Forums? That's rather cringe-worthy
Logan Sullivan
Yeah, that's the plan. I wasn't aware of Pi-Hole until I read through this thread.
Charles Walker
what else would I name it after?
Camden White
I have one of the first ones with more ram and it can't even handle cups. The whole thing freezes for 10-20 seconds for every single print job.
Justin James
Is that using the Sup Forums API to acquire its data?
Asher Butler
Honestly it's easy to use and fucking great. I pointed my router to it but also I'm poiting my desktop and laptop to the pi to get stats on them too. Default lists are more than enough but if you poke around you can load a shitton more of lists if you are paranoid. If you use any machine with windows it has also a list with all the telemetry shit that updates from time to time.
Justin Torres
im actually using a library called BASC py4chan because i wasnt aware Sup Forums had its own official API before i got comfortable with the former
Kayden Anderson
I want to order a pi zero w but as with every new PI it's basically a racket. Cheapest you can get it is from Canakit for $10 and $10 shipping. You could literally throw it in a paper envelope for less than a dollar.
Wyatt Mitchell
Thanks for the heads up. I have a Windows PC that I use in case some software doesn't work probably on a VM.
I'm thinking about also setting up the PI as an access point that's connected to a VPN service. Do you think there would be any issue if I pointed my router to Pi-Hole?
Carson Sullivan
get an orange pi then
Thomas Ortiz
This guy gets it It even block win10 telemetry
Adrian Kelly
where did you get the chassis
Luis Martinez
using pi zero w. the wifi is complete shit. Should've just bought a ordinary 3 and got a wifi chip
Thomas Smith
Thrift store. That is what faggots that replied to me cant understand. I am new to electronics/soldering/arduino, but nope there is only one path, and being elitist faggot.
Carson Walker
not hard at all, at the time of install on the pi, just setup the dns servers you normally use with your isp (or whatever you are using now). Make sure the pi gets a reserved static ip address from your router or whatever you have doing DHCP and after you have everything connected and installed just change the DNS server on your router to the actual static ip you gave the pi. If you do that every single thing that connects to that router will pass through the pi and effectively block any crap. As I don't care to setup every single wifi device I have pointing the dns to the pi, I just leave it as is, but on desktop or a laptop I go ahead and tell the computer to strictly go through the pi ip address so you get stats in the web interface. Also you can check what was blocked on those. I can tell you it works with the Windows machine.
Yeah, I'm used to have ublock on every browser I use and have adaway on my phone but it's nice to know that there's an extra layer
Tyler Bell
I have mine attached to my home heating system.
Leo Lopez
does it lowers/rises temp based on sensor?
Hudson Fisher
Not OP but anyone tried both? Nginx apparently runs better on pi
Hudson Foster
No, it serves as the backbone to my air purification system.
Levi Diaz
This is actually pretty cool
Asher Barnes
Pi-hole Open VPN server Owncloud and network share with automated backups.
Ran BOINC/ Seti on it for a while but it kept shitting itself. 100+ hours for a work unit!
Nathan Edwards
don't let Sup Forums autists get to you bro
Thomas Morales
Does it work?
Christian Mitchell
Clusters are the best.
Nathan Wilson
Why the fuck do you do that??
Aaron Morris
You have to be careful with some BOINC applications because some require swap space and will fail if none is available. Seeing most ROMs don't set up swap (probably to avoid situations of over working the card and killing it quickly) it's worth making a small swap partition just to keep things happy. From what I saw (Einstein@home) barely writes to the swap it makes and Linux in general doesn't use swap until RAM runs out so a small swap shouldn't be too much of an issue having around.
Christian Foster
Clearly because he likes cheese pizza.
Jaxon Cruz
>proprietary firmware
Isaiah Rodriguez
I am looking to turn mine into a PXE server, so i can easily install windows and linux or run tools for work. Havent even looked at how to do it. Not sure if i can.
Daniel Baker
make something that takes posts from r/Sup Forums and posts them on twitter
Isaac Johnson
Interesting info user, thanks. I just uninstalled it as I need the VPN to be reliable. I've got an old thin client that I'll be running as a dedicated BOINC machine. Probably drop seti for Einstein and folding.
Luke Morgan
Yeah, I am actually working on server/client for it, I am writing the program in Java, and will be writing it for android, too.
Alexander Foster
Sounds cool.
Jordan Jenkins
ice also read many are complaining that you can't use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi at the same time without having issues. very disappoint
Joseph Martin
I was thinking of just SSHing and just having terminal capture keys when I press, but said fuck it I rather program server/client.
David Gutierrez
its been shitposting on Sup Forums for about 3 days straight now