Is it a meme? What are some useful applications for this?

Is it a meme? What are some useful applications for this?

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RetroPi

I run a mumble server on mine, which has worked with no issues so far.

Great tool for learning Linux.

I use it to steal WiFi using a parabolic dish I installed. Tip: Raspbian is bloated and somehow featureless at the same time. DietPi is a better OS.

They're only bad if you buy one without knowing what to do with it.

>small web server for neo-cities tier static website or a personal email server (vote for me, I'm a woman)
>file server for NAS where you can store backups and stuff
>build your own laptop and make a super 1337 Sup Forums shitposting machine
>build shit tier robots that just move around on shitty LEGO wheels for no goddamn reason
>use it to play retro games or make it into a handheld game console like said
>use it to try out RISC OS or Morph OS or other software that doesn't work well or at all on x86

Rasplex for plex client. Using Windows MCE remote and IR receiver.

Cups server, pi-hole, file server, htpc, retro gayming.

Doug coulter uses it on his intranet of things, because he has a number of machines to monitor. I think it's connected to a LAN webpage with a camera. You can give it wifi and a battery, so it becomes a bulky wireless general purpose desktop. Program your own alarm clock, or use it with an arduino to make some RC toy. I'm not very creative, but I thought I would try.

The Asus Tinker Board might be better for video games and for HTPC stuff. It's more powerful, supports 4k h265, and has it's own fleshed out versions of Android and Debian

It's pretty good with tormenting if you don't want your desktop on all the time.

Great for making a Stingray with. Rpitx currently does not fucking work, so you can't fuck with people's garage doors and their keyfobs.

Two things off the top of my head:
1. War driving
2. Hardware flash ROM hacking

You should think of these as mini computers or prototype boards to do shit.

I mean, some people run them as "linux box"; but meh.... You can use VM's for that.

They're also great for running DNS proxies off of

>pihole
>local network service (DNS, DHCP, etc)
>internet facing box
>retropi
>overkill controller

cheap as shit for doing a lot of stuff

i built a beerpong table that used Computer vision to track the ball and keep track of score

Other than that I've loaded KODI on it for a stream box, but its shit compared to a chromcast/fireTV

My girlfriend demanded I make a retropie for her brother for Christmas. It has something like a thousand old games on it and is controlled by a knockoff SNES controller. I'm going to break up with her soon so I wonder what will happen when something finally goes wrong with it, no one in her family is tech savvy and they're playing with a weird cobbled together Linux device.

To OP, they are what you make of them.

Uh, how about raspbian-lite?

build a missile guidance system

I wouldn't mind having a SBC to use as a streaming box and emulation machine but the driver situation is garbage

making smarthome shit that isn't going to spy on you

>You can give it wifi and a battery, so it becomes a bulky wireless general purpose desktop.
So why not just get a laptop?

GPIO on Raspberry are not as robust those of your typical controller.

feel like i always post the same thing in these threads.
use it to connect to my network from outside, as a git server, and for backing up stuff with a cronjob every few days.
it's pretty great for those low resource tasks. wouldn't use it for desktop unless purely as a terminal only machine. do have a microsd with openelec installed which makes it work as an htpc, but hardly have used it for that in the past few months.
got a zero and a pi2 i need to find something to do with. also need to finally trannyboot my x200 with it.

>feel like i always post the same thing in these threads.
Please make a pasta of it.

Over at /cyb/ we got a huge FAQ at the end.

Servers really desu. Otherwise just get an arduino senpai

go on /cyb/, but not as of late because i think of myself as being in the lower end of anons who know their stuff.

>I'm going to break up with her soon
what happened? she fucking niggers?

doable

So is VirtualBox

absurdly overpowered microcontroller is a better description than cheap computer any time you're thinking of possible projects
still, I use a pi0 to share files on the home network and a pi2 with retropie on it
got the 2 when that was the latest model
got the 0 entirely because it was $5 for a board

even a pi3 is still a fairly slow desktop machine
mostly due to bloated modern software though, and even then mostly bloated modern browsers

Pi Hole to eliminate all ads.

The Bluetooth is crap.
I paired up with a BT mouse using a USB mouse but after a power cycle it won't re-pair.
Have to log in with VNC to pair it up again.
The wireless (non-BT) keyboard works a treat, though.

I use mine for PiHole and apcupsd. It also turns my home server on after a power outage.

>mostly bloated modern browsers
Amen.
Got fed up with Chrome. Tried installing IceWeasel for Firefox. Have to run it from the CLI.
Why does every Pi site treat you like a 12-year old?

Got one for XMAS, using it as a low power headless computer to power my SDR, then I just connect to it with SDR# from my desktop. Been very happy with the results, plan on placing it in a weatherproofed box at some point and put it on a pole outside.

Retro consoles!

People also seem to use tthem to make an internet radio/Spotify machine and with security cameras.

The brother will become a sysadmin and steal your job.

>Why does every Pi site treat you like a 12-year old?
Because that's why they were made.

>>internet facing box
No.

Ah, the Soylent Grin.

I don't think so, she just never has time to do anything due to her job and she always drags her parents around whenever she actually has time to go somewhere with me. It's like having a chaperone.

Nah, he's a big country boy who can barely use a computer. Nostalgic about SNES games though. If I have to fix it he'll probably pay me in venison sausage or something.

have u talked to her about it? how old is she?

There's a plan9 port that runs on rasberry pis

Yeah, she feels I should come over and hang out with her parents more but I kind of think she should cut the umbilical and move in with me. She doesn't want to live in an apartment though and thinks it's horrible that I've moved 300 miles away from my parents. She's 27, I'm 34.

I use mine for a deluge server, a tiny personal website and a ghetto NAS with 2 external hard drives. Thinking about putting pihole on it as well.

Trying to install LAMP on this shitbox.
Can't find a repo that contains PHP.
Haven't tried MySQL yet.
I shouldn't expect much from a toy.

What the fuck kind of distro did you install on it? Just put arch linux arm on it and call it a day? Everything's on the repo there.

it costs way more too

Reddit bots, Discord bots, web scraper/backup tool, run stuff 24/7 in case you like to turn your PC off at night

Observe the easy-access GPIO pins for a low cost.

It's like $55, a Rpi3 is like $38

t. Satan

How do I build a VPN out of a rapi3?

I use it as a music player. Mp3, radio, spotify and torrent.
Works great.

sudo pacman -S vpn

ur welcome

You can use them as a microcontroller that communicates over ethernet with your PC to control things like lights, cameras, etc. I used a similar device, a Beagle Bone, to hook up my home office to my desktop.

>No drivers

Can this shit run a home server, mail, vpn, adblocker at the same time?

Asus made the distros for its own board,of course it has drivers

No buy 3

What's the optimal amount of Pi's to have?

About 3.14

Aaaa shit nigga

I'm trying to get a Raspberry pi to be a guidance system for a model rocket.
It's actually fairly cheap

Robotics
inb4 use arduino
No, i am not talking about making a fucking line follower

It's a computer that is cheap and have low energy consomation. How is this a meme, if you need those kind of computers. For exemple : I use one for Nas in my house and also pi-hole

Sensors data collector either raw via GPIOs or USB ports with microcontrollers for structured fusion data. Then forward it to your database, or message queue.

Currently using mine for:
> Image hosting
> UniFi controller
> SSH tunneling

i'm thinking of setting one up as a printer client i've also squezzed one into a gameboy colour shell with some breaboard ad a power circuit and a tiny lcd pretty decent before the screen broke. Used it for pokemon

Odroid:
+seperate sdcard+emmc/ethernet/usb Bus
+includes mp4 codec
+1000mbps NIC
-second biggest community(still better than any other sbc)
+emmc slot
+much faster CPU

Rpi:
-shared ethetnet/usb/sdcard bus
+usb boot without sdcard
-pay for mp4 license
-100mbps NIC
+bigger community

Odroid also has android which rpi doesnt support officially for when u get bored and turn it into a htpc for streaming or emulators

does this community expand? I thought of buying one for emulation up to PSP games

I have 2 pi3's now.

1, Arch. Web server, torrents, dlna server, file server, monitors some pages for me.
2, Raspbian Lite, VPN only right now.

They aren't very powerful, I got the second for about £25 as my vpn traffic was slowing down everything else too much.

It's not 'pro' setup, 100Mb Ethernet is fine for what I do.

Mine is basically being used as a smart TV at the moment.

Web browser isn't quite desktop good but its way better than any of the bullshit built into a TV.
Use it to stream internet TV from sites that are slightly less mainstream than your netflix/amazon/iplayers and don't have a smart TV app.

The micro sd slot on my 3d printer stopped working so I use a pi 2 with octopi to control my printer. If you have a 3d printer I highly recommend it. I used one on an FSAE Electric car to datalog everything from the CAN bus. In that application it was hit or miss - the linux CAN bus utilities are awesome, but the pi would randomly lock up during runs if we were logging data instead of just viewing it wirelessly. We had the pi setup as an AP so you could (in theory) connect to the car and the pi would host a telemetry webpage, but we never got that far. I think that SBCs are much more useful as a linux interface to an embedded system than as a server or desktop.

I use mine as a remote & scheduled Wake-on-LAN server.

Could you make a raspberry pi like a little sandbox that just seeds torrents?

yes, thats what i do with mine

What can I do on this that I can't already do on my server with an i5 2400?

A buddy of mine used a micro one (or a similar board) to build a digital guitar effect pedal, at much cheaper overall cost than you could find in other programmable digital pedals.

It's got myriad uses, but they are all fringe shit like
>make a clock
>make a touch mirror panel thing
>run an email server
>help direct server traffic
It's not going to replace literally anything or scale with any amount of ability. It is a general piece of equipment which is intended to be specialized for a singular, specific purpose.

nothing, but the power usage is lesser

I use mine for
>some web scraping and online shilling
>FTP
>see if my other computers are up, shut them off remotely

any of these server applications can be better done with a cheap vps, since you'd have a better connection
except torrents, I guess, most providers do not want that shit on their systems cause of copyright and io sink

I use mine as :
- OpenVPN server
- DynDNS client
- 2nd Torrenting-server (for throwaway torrents that I purely want long-time seed on for that /ptg/ game)
- 2nd DNS-resolver with DNSCrypt+pihole

I also have 2 other machines that are always on because RPI isn't fast enough to give a good experience:

Intel-NUC (HTPC) connected to TV controlled with a universal remote
- Nginx
- Automated torrenting (sonarr, radarr, deluge, jackett, all that shit)
- NAS
- Primary DNS resolver with DNSCrypt + pihole
- OpenPHT
- Steam-inhome streaming

Server with 32gb ram
- Homelab
- Plex host

Is a raspberry pi 3 able to play 1080p .mkv files with high bitrate? Or do they get laggy?
I am considering building up a low power computer with an old 1080p screen for my wife. Her laptop is going to die soon and she wants a computer to watch the downloaded movies and series i am hoarding with and she also uses it for facebook instagram and youtube and shit like that. She doesn't play games or so. Just random stuff.

>Is a raspberry pi 3 able to play 1080p .mkv files With high bitrate? Or do they get laggy?
no, unless you wanna wait the whole day to watch it in slowmo. Get a NUC or some cheap dell/hp for and HTPC.

get ex corporate c2d shitbox instead

Ok, i see, they are too weak to play this stuff.
It was just a nice idea to have such a little low power consumption box to serve as a normal PC.
I might build a PC with old parts then.
Thx for the quick reply anons!!

You could make a robot with it or put it on a drone for command and control. You could make a digital radio with it.

Install OpenVPN on it, follow some configuration guide online (doesn't have to be RPi specific) and then port forward

I don't use mine for much at this point since I have it all running on my home server. However, I do use it for OctoPrint with OctoPi, that shit is great.

Main things I used it for:
Game emulation on old telly, composite out is a wonderful thing.
FM transmitter, though you have to be careful with it, it's fun to tease people who listen to radio often.
And finally I use it to program microcontrollers through the GPIO pins, I had a few microcontrollers laying around but never bought a proper programmer, the pi does a fine job.

Heck I can connect to it through SSH and I can just leave the Pi with a microcontroller hooked up up to it and program it without touching it.

This comment made me choke on my saliva. Fuck you.

wget git.io/vpn -O openvpn.sh && sudo bash openvpn.sh

I'm trying to stream Hungarian online radio stations through the Pi so I could listen to them around my house through my radio but I can't get it to work.

The files are m3u and pls. I'm getting them from here: listenlive.eu/hungary.html

The problem is that I can't seem to find any player that can stream these files, I can stream starwars.wav and listen to it through my radio but I can't do the same with the online radios.

Could someone help me out please?

>The problem is that I can't seem to find any player that can stream these files
VLC should do it fine, mpv too

mpv works fine

>m3u
>pls
those are plaintext playlist files