Hack NASA, mostly. Also it makes a great pihole and man-in-the-middle for phone apps.
Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#152I have a pair of Pi Zero Ws set up as timelapse cameras that I keep in the garden - Cucumber vines and flowers opening is pretty interesting at 1 frame per minute I recently did a project with a pair of RPi 3b+ and cellular modems as construction cameras. I set up RetroPie on a 3b+, but it wasn't enough for the N64 games my wife and I wanted to play the 4 could change that Currently my security cameras are recorded u…
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Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#153RetroPie to run video game console emulators and MAME. Maybe the new version can finally run a proper N64 emulator?
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#154I made a fairytale phone as a present for a colleague's kid. I played with Arduino's before and this was my first Pi project. Pretty fun to do.
Roughly followed this tutorial: https://www.instructables.com/id/Fairytale-Phone/
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#155Use a small software defined radio to listen to ADS-B messages (real time airplane telemetry— even with a crappy $10 USB SDR dongle I can sometimes see planes that are 100+ miles away)
Host my website (if I ever got any actual traffic it might be a problem, but since 99% of the traffic is me it's ok)
Various web scraping/archival tasks
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#156I used it to monitor ADSL device status[0], also created a DIY timecapsule for MacOS[1] — these were all in the past, though. Currently the Pi is on my roof, connected to an SDR. I sometimes run rtl_server on it, and listen around. Although it's been a hassle, since I have to run upstairs and disconnect it everytime there's a storm. Also, listening to the device over WiFi means I get really laggy control over my SDR.…
You could probably automate cutting the power with a relay switch also connected to the pi. Just scrape weather data, and if you expect the storm, trigger the switch.
I'm actually more concerned about lightning strikes hitting the antenna, frying the Pi, traveling down the Ethernet cable and frying my router. I'm still a ham in training but I've been told that it's best practice to disconnect the antenna and isolate it from your setup. Some hams as far as placing their connectors in glass jars.
I don't want to use a relay on the antenna cable because 1) it'll pick up RF interference, and 2) if a direct strike hits it, there'll be enough energy to jump the gap in the relay anyways.
I might figure out a more permanent solid-state solution in the future though. Like I said, still learning :)
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#157Pi-hole and Syncthing. And I have Apache installed that just spits out a list of upcoming Doctors appointments since I have a few of those a week and they frequently change. I don't drive and my sister drives my to appointments so it helps her keep track of things.
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#1581x RP3 running OSMC https://osmc.tv/download/
2x RP2/3 with HiFi Berry DAC driving an amp. https://www.picoreplayer.org/ connecting to http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Logitech_Media_Server
1x RP2 running PiHole and Apache + Owncloud
1x RP3 running RetroPie
The OSMC and music players get daily use and have been in use for a few years
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#159I haven't built it yet, but I want to buy some clickable rotary encoders, some knobs and build a light switch for my smart lights.
A knob you can click to turn the lights on or off, and turn to control the brightness.
A knob you can click to toggle between "natural light" and "color", and turn to control either the warmth or the hue.
Not sure if I need a whole Pi for this or if I should attempt it with something more bare-bones, but that's the project I have in mind.
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#160Right now: I use it as a Flashrom rig, for flashing BIOS chips. The new Raspberry Pi looks powerful enough to use as a media center PC, I ordered one and want to see if it can do that well enough (read as: I’m curious to see emulation performance.)
I've been happy for a year or two (not even sure, now that I think about it...) with two Pi3s running openElec. Both run over wired ethernet to SMB media server. I'm generally stingy with my storage, so I usually opt for the 1080p file sizes. I don't know how well or if it can handle 4K.