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Ask HN: What have you built with your raspberry pi?
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#12My drunk friend kicked in my front door so I took the opportunity to replace the busted strike with an electric strike. A Raspberry Pi controls the relay to switch it open, accessed via a simple Node.js app or text message (with Twilio posting a webhook to said app).
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#13- A security camera with motion sensor
- A semi-real time (with less than 10 seconds delay) pet monitoring system
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came here to say this is what I have been wanting to build. I did some research a while back but I was trying to find a USB thermistor that would work with high temps. All I could find was devices that were probably meant for measure outside temp or ambient air temp.
I'm not sure what kind of BBQ you are into, but my dad and I do quite a few competitions every year, and the temperature inside the smoker itself is more valuable than the temperature of your meat. It's easier to consistently get your smoker temperature to what you want than attempting to cook your meat at specific temperatures, considering no piece of meat is alike another. Obviously we check the internal temp to ma…
Right, I would be wanting two temps, meat and temp at the grate. Also it would have a fan to control the BBQ temp like the BBQ Gurus or Pitmaster IQ (the one I use currently).
I dont do comps but I do a lot of backyard smokes, I would like to do some amateur comps once I get better.
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#15Set up RetroPi on it, ordered some SNES USB controllers for like $7 each.
https://github.com/petrockblog/RetroPie-Setup
I realized all the games are a lot harder than they felt when I was a child. Can't get past the second person on Mortal Kombat 3... but Super Mario World is a lot of fun.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure what kind of BBQ you are into, but my dad and I do quite a few competitions every year, and the temperature inside the smoker itself is more valuable than the temperature of your meat. It's easier to consistently get your smoker temperature to what you want than attempting to cook your meat at specific temperatures, considering no piece of meat is alike another. Obviously we check the internal temp to ma…
Right, I would be wanting two temps, meat and temp at the grate. Also it would have a fan to control the BBQ temp like the BBQ Gurus or Pitmaster IQ (the one I use currently). I dont do comps but I do a lot of backyard smokes, I would like to do some amateur comps once I get better.
Awesome, I wasn't looking for something so full featured. I just want to be able to check the temperature without having to get up :)
If you're from the Pacific Northwest, get into the PNWBA quickly. Lots of great people and so welcoming to amateurs.
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#17I built a media console. Great source of inspiration here- http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=15
This is a great link, thank you!
I found a project someone is working on that seems really interesting: "Music player server with a web-based user interface"
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#18I wrote a digital signage system, and had 5 of them around a campus for a youth congress/conference last summer.
This year we're doing 7 screens, and I've got two other offices at our company wanting to use it.
I've also been using them a bit as test servers, instead of virtual machines (so no slowing my workstation down...).
I've also a couple of them (while they're not at conferences) as web displays, showing asana jobs for the team ( https://github.com/danthedeckie/asana-view ) here, in our team room.
I've just started helping to set up a friend's one as a time-vault/time-machine for his and his wife's mac.
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#19I monitor the temperature and humidity in my apartment. I used rrdtool for storing the data and HighCharts for generating the charts: http://pi.tafkas.net/temperatures
The process is described in my blog at http://blog.tafkas.net/2012/10/03/gathering-and-charting-tem...
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#20Building Wireless Sensor Networks with MQTT-S, RaspberryPi and Erlang