Has Sup Forums made anything fun with any boards?

Has Sup Forums made anything fun with any boards?

I've a Pi lying about but every TV already has something like the Nvidia shield plugged.

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Plenty of fun things to do with a Pi, don't let Sup Forums tell you otherwise

this and that, trail camera, sensors, got a couple interfaced to modded 1u appliance chassis, docker swarm etc.

You could run a lamp stack and have some lightweight webapps, things like ttrss or shaarli.

Toss one and a 2.5" drive into something like this and invite people over to make shitty jokes about the cloud.

I suppose that'd be neat.

Why don't you head back to plebbit? We see these cancerous threads every fucking day.

I set up OpenVPN on one and now I can Remote Desktop into my home pcs from anywhere, it's pretty comfy. I also have gitlab on another but I'm probably gonna use one pi for the OpenVPN and gitlab to consolidate. Also I'm going to use an Asus tinker board for a nextcloud set up.

I used mine as a personal cloud for my moto g3 since Dropbox was running out of space

I tried to use reaver on it to crack my neighbours WiFi password...too bad my WiFi adapter is shit. I've ordered a new one from aliexpress...hope it arrives safe and sound, and on time.

Mega dot nz

My raspberry pi was initially utilized as a game emulator. Then I installed pi-hole on it and attached a fan so that it could protect the entire house network from ads and unwanted content.

>inb4 someone telling me what I can and cannot do on my own network

Order a pic related from ebay for $4.
>Search for 20x4 LCD

It opens up for a lot of fun projects.
I've written a code in Python for pulling weather data from yr.no to a XML file and output the next hours forecast on the display.

I have also connected three DS18B20 sensors that i got for cheap on ebay, and then written a code that alternates between the yr.no forecast and the local temperature sensors data.

>pic related
>showing yr.no forecast

cool stuff - lcds are great fun to play with, I modded two old 1u sun cobalt appliances and interfaced the lcds to pis myself

I want to make one into a retroshare communications machine but I'm waiting for the tor-integrated version and official pi version to be finished. I know I can just add tor to it myself but I'll fuck it up.

i wanted to get a pi zero w, to try and make a wrist mounted computer. but my solder just broke.

Put a photoresistor and a temperature sensor on a breadboard, and made an IRC bot report the temperature inside my fridge on command and report whenever the fridge light went on automatically.

After 15 minutes, the fun was no longer there, I started regretting the whole project and started reconsidering my life choices.

Haven't used the RPi for anything since, actually.

>hey dude do you wana see the temperature of my fridge when we're not even at the fridge!?

To be fair, I did come up with the project idea after about 4 or 5 beers, but my reasoning was something like that, yes.

It only took me 45-60 minutes to complete (the longest time was spent writing an IRC bot from scratch actually), but yeah. It was fun to do, but the result was quite useless and stupid.

Pi 2 with omv + WD my book 4tb = cheap nas

i use it as a pretty powerfull FM transmitter to terrorize my neighbourhood with pirate radio.

...

>FM radio
Wait, people still use this?

In my country the FM broadcast band was released and is now an unlicensed band because everyone is using DAB+ radios.

Must be fun to set up, but utterly useless to have in the long term.

I mean, why the fuck would i go over to a specific place in the apartment to get information that i can gain by glancing on my smartphone lock-screen?

>Blasting 100% brightness while home, just so that one can glance over the screen for 5 sec before moving on.

>Must be fun to set up,
Isn't that reason to do it in the first place?

Because at least one being in that house probably spends hours in front of that mirror every day.

of course not, only neck-beards and retards would think that.

I it doesn't have a sound purpose with a monetary reimbursement then there is no point in doing it. Fun is for children.

yup.

my pi projects:
hardware firewall, DNS server, SMTP server, IDS/IPS, solar eclipse camera to watch and record the even for me, hardware controller for a canfield joint, 4x RPi's used as a hashing cluster, and the same cluster used as a Sup Forums social media monitoring tool that monitored and recorded all election-based conversation on Sup Forums during the final 45 days of the 2016 US election

The more the reason to not do this shit.

It's a mirror, and having top 100 movie quotes in the middle does not improve it.

Because it's the only place in the house where I don't have my smartphone with me.

>It's a mirror, and having top 100 movie quotes in the middle does not improve it.
Judging by user's own reflection, I'd say that it actually improves it by a lot.

that one way mirror costs like 10x what a pi does tho

>It's a mirror, and having top 100 movie quotes in the middle does not improve it.
You put whatever you find useful. I would put a clock and the times of the next 3 trains to work.

b-but think of all the sixx upboats i can get!

how deep of a hole did you have to dig behind the wall to put the projector behind the one way mirror?

It's like 30 bucks.
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There is no cloud, it's just someone else's pi xd

or did you just mount a very large monitor behind the one way mirror?

shove it up your ass

what did the glass cost tho?

you put a small cheap monitor

I found the pic on the net btw, I didn't make it

name something better than a rp3? that is within budget.

You're looking for a better one?
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I originally bought my Pi to run the controller software for my WAP but now it also runs KODI for my HT system.

oh.

ive looked at these before seem like a huge hassle to make.

you need to get a one way mirror and either burrow a hole deep enough in the wall behind it to mount a projector or get a monitor the size of the mirror and build a housing around the mirror that will also hold the monitor right behind it.

theres actually very little you do with a raspberry pi for this project, you just have it hdmi'd to a projector/monitor running an app that shows that information.

this project is much more "build a mirror and projector/monitor contraption" rather than a "do something with a raspberry pi" project

Combining these two, you can finally subtly and openly boast about your [Enter your preferred social media here] score that you have worked so vigorously to attain.

The objectively superior smart mirror would display #BlackLivesMatter 100 times and then you could apply and get accepted to stanford

Make a pihole

My startup sells value-add modules to our main sass product that are just large TV's with pre-programmed raspis taped to the back. It displays large-format current information from the product on warehouse walls and factory floors.

Sold a dozen so far at ridiculous markup

What country?

Planning on using mine for some arm processor planning, both 32 and 64 bit. I want to compile a lfs or source mage build on it, and slowly port that to a cheap smartphone inbound from ching chong land. Going to be a hard crash course on the more difficult parts of C programming.

If that fails, I'll be making a setup with a long battery life to do surveillance on Antifa, or a home made drone for getting those fancy meme aerial footage clips.

>I've a pi lying about

So does everyone else on Sup Forums

Thats cool, might just do that, and make it functional

I literally am going to do this also user, any pointers?

Kek'd. This could actually be useful if you're in a biology or chemistry lab, in need tight temperature regulation.

Quads of truth?

Fridges they use for those settings generally already have a display at the minimum

Shit, I actually just made a Raspberry Pi general right now. Guess I'll delete it, woops.

Anyways, I just got mine in. What am I in for? Going to use it for emulation. Lad of mine has one and it's pretty neat. Had mostly retro games on it. Hoping to play PS2 games too, though.

>Hoping to play PS2 games too, though

Don't think it's powerful enough to emulate PS2 games

i hate these threads because i will see people using Pi boards for overly ridicuous shit. Like using a pi board to regulate temperature or turn a fan on and off. You can do that with a pic or just a basic as attiny 8 pin chip.

What youre essentially doing is using a desktop computer to turn a light bulb on and off. IE overkill

That's lame. RetroPie says it supports it. But hey, if my PC can't handle a PS2 emulator running at 100% (runs at a choppy 80% sadly), this thing definitely won't either. Oh well.

Yeah, that annoys me too. I've seen some amazing projects that use it but they tend to be gimmicks.

They work even if you accidentally get cum on them

They're pretty neat machines

Used one to report how soon to leave to catch the next train from work
One as a white noise machine for home, it's also an alarm clock that plays a different song based on the day's weather since I wake up with like 5 minutes to get out the door, also does network ad blocking with pihole
Made a Kodi machine for my mom so she'd stop wasting money on buying videos and shit

Loaded win10 iot core on one for work and made a glorified signage application to show a webpage on an overhead display. Even with the PoE adapter the setup is 10x cheaper than a PC

I actually used a few to track climate in laser experiment labs so we'd know temp and humidity changes during experiments

I put retro pie on one and installed it in the back of a friend's truck for entertainment on cross country road trips

JMFSU, guys

I didn't know how much paste this tube exerted

github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install
Not sure if it'll work on a pi, but this was the easiest method. It's basic and works so later on if you want to fine tune settings you can search further.

Yeah, it struggles with n64, dreamcast and ps1, so no way it's going to work with ps2.

hey guys, do you think it'd be risky to use a RPi+external HDD as NAS?

A single HD with no redundancy?

Yes, that's risky as hell.

this, hell if you have at LEAST quadruple redundancy along separated secondary and tertiary off site backups to three generations of every bit of your storage, just get the fuck out of Sup Forums

I mean, how much more effort is a single additional HD with mirroring?

I mean, how much more effort is a three additional HDDs with mirroring?

well. its double to the cost to begin with

build a coco and track planes

There's no real point to a NAS with a single HD unless you just want to store porn on it.

>There's no real point to a NAS with a single HD

He asked if it's risky. If he wants to store data he doesn't care about then there was no reason to ask.

god forbid someone waste the power of a 4W computer

I agree with you to some extent, most projects could use an ESP8266 instead of a pi. But who cares? It's about learning and making something cool with nothing other than a soldering iron and some code. Wasting power or money is really not a big factor for most people.

Exactly! why stop at one back up! two! ten! FIFTY DRIVES FOR EVERY ONE!


YOU NEVER KNOW!


fucking retards

>suggesting the absolute bare minimum of redundancy is the same as suggesting fifty drives

Really?

I mean, I get your point... but I was thinking about it from another perspective: what if I had a power outage, or the board failed for some reason, or...

YOU NEVER KNOW

is'n't that what you redundancy faggots always fucking spew?

YOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOWYOU NEVER KNOW

I've never seen someone so angry at the concept of backing up data.

are you implying redundancy = backup?

oh boy have you come to the wrong place

fun project ideas:
1. combine rpi with rtl sdr, hf upconverter, and enjoy the wonders of amateur radio
2. combine rpi with rtl sdr, proper antenna, filter, and amp, and track planes broadcasting ads-b messages. Upload your data to flightradar24 or flightaware and they will upgrade your account to an enterprise subscription (normally costs ~$500/yr)
3. run an IRC bouncer on your raspberry pi
4. run home assistant on your raspberry pi, hook in all your electronics in your house for a DIY smarthome
5. buy a usb ATSC tuner. Use tvheadend to create a DVR. Stream live and recorded broadcast television to any computer in your house.
6. install and configure all the automated piracy software, assuming you have network storage available for the pi to access.

tremor intensifies

How high are you right now?

roaming torrent downloader with vpn, auto login and 128x64 display.
to download stuff on school wifi while im in class

Hey anons, my Raspberry Pi 3 came with a case, a see-thru RPi logo with a whole to insert and LED (which was also included).

I've connected the LED to the GPIO row, however, it isn't turning on. I've tried connecting it in various different ways.

What must I do to get this simple LED on? I'd like for it to turn on whenever the Pi is on and have it be a stable red color. Thanks.

put it across pins 1 and 6

i have 2, pi-hole and retropie

#1. For the protection of your Pi, stop shoving components into random holes. Some of those are hot and you could legitimately damage the pi.

#2. Stick the anode in a GPIO pin slot and stick the cathode to ground.

Then run the following commands as root.

> Register the pin. Replace $NUMBER with whatever pin you have the anode in. Pic attached for numbering.

# echo $NUMBER > /sys/class/gpio/export

> We are looking to push data OUT on the pin, not read data from the pin. So we put it in "out" mode

# echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$NUMBER/direction

> Turn it on and off

# while /bin/true; do echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$NUMBER/value ; sleep 1; echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$NUMBER/value ; done

more docs here: kernel.org/doc/Documentation/gpio/

forgot pic

I can't. The LED it came already has its 2 wires connected together with a 2-holed part that allows me to stick it into the GPIO pins (see pic).

Can I do that if my LED came connected like pic related?

Trying home automation. Bought some sockets which work on the 433MHz RF, but the receiver on the PI doesn't register any signals from the socket remote control when I press buttons, so I'm getting nowhere fast.