I use it to take up space in my drawer of useless electronic stuff because I can never find a combination of power supply and SD card that doesn't eventually end up corrupt and unbootable.
Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
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#172I have one set up with the RetroPi distribution, that I carry around with me, along with two USB game-pad controllers, so I can engage in retro-gaming wherever I'm at (assuming there's an HDMI display available).
I'm also dabbling with embedding one in the gutted out shell of an old boom-box, and making it a portable Alexa-like "smart speaker" of sorts. Looking at using something like Mycroft[1] or something of that ilk.
But outside of running Mycroft or whatever, I want to load this thing down with sensors (microphone, webcam, GPS, SDR, accelerometer, temperature, humidity, ultrasonic, infrared, whatever I can) and stream the data to a server where I can do more intensive AI related work. The idea is that this thing is the front-end to experimenting with "embodied AI" and having an AI "thing" that can really sense and experience it's environment.
This whole thing is very incipient, but I'm looking at seeing what I can do with something like OpenCOG, or SOAR or ACT-R, coupled with various ML techniques, to give this thing some level of smarts.
[1]: https://mycroft.ai/
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#1731x Raspberry Pi 3 installed in my car within the internal network as a bastion box and to run software that let's my interact with the entertainment system 1x Raspberry Pi 3 running Home Assistant with a Z-Wave USB Dongle (Home Automation) 1x Raspberry Pi 3 running OctoPrint (Host/remote-control for 3D Printer) 1x Raspberry Pi 3 running FullPageOS (Full-screen Chromium in kiosk mode) displaying a server statusboard i…
FYI - I had to buy a Pi 3B+ to run Unifi Controller, the forum posts said the Zero W didn't have enough juice.
Boo! Might have to reconsider then. I used the Pi Zero W for FullPageOS for a while but performance was absolutely terrible, recently switched it out with the Raspberry Pi 3.
The Pi Zero really has an awesome form factor, but many of the projects I come up with either require more performance (i.e. needing a Rasperry Pi 3) or are simply better suited for a microcontroller such an ESP32 or ESP8266.
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#174The coffee machine in our office is controlled by blockchain NFTs and a Raspberry Pi: Once authenticated, an owner of the NFT can select their coffee type on their phone which then signals the Raspberry Pi to make whatever coffee type was selected by jumping the contacts that used to be pressed by the machine's buttons (which have been removed). It's a cool gimmick, fun to show off to visitors, gives us a nice record…
Is it HTCPCP-enabled? Inquiring minds want to know!
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#1753 rpi w 8mb camera to create a HD CCTV.
2 rpi to serving to 2 viewsonic touch screen
1 backing up PROD server
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#176I have one running pi-hole and Ubiqiti controller (powered by my router's usb port), one sitting under the TV running Kodi connected to a NAS, avoiding the need for discs (big plus when you have small children), one sat next to an old hi-fi which also links to the NAS and lets me stream music to the hi-fi, and a couple of older ones which aren't connected to anything having been replaced with newer models. Oh, and a Zero, which I've never found a use for.
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#177I have one with a DAC running shairport-sync to recieve audio from iPhone and one running pihole.
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#178One RPi 2 for RetroPi, one RPi 3 for PiHole & PiVPN and one RPi 3 running motioneye as a security camera.
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#179I love and hate this question! I've always been curious what others do with them, but I just convinced myself not to buy a 4 and I'm sure this thread will give me reason to reconsider.
-1x Raspberry Pi Zero W in my garage running my drip irrigation (a relay board connects it to standard 24V irrigation solenoids)
-1x Raspberry Pi 3 B+ in my office running a dynamic dns script and sitting behind a forwarded port for easy sshing. I have also used this to play with pihole and Apache Guacamole, plus whatever other networking stuff sounds interesting
-1x Raspberry Pi Zero W hopping between my garage and car running a program that collects and displays OBDII and GPS data
-Nx of most other Pi revisions collecting dust in my closets and storage areas. They're cheap enough that I've compulsively over-purchased them over the years...
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#180I have one set up as a sprinkler timer (https://github.com/callahanrts/sprinklers). Scheduling my sprinklers with cron jobs gives me a lot more flexibility over water times. It also runs a local webserver so I can turn a zone on for just a few seconds when I'm fixing a leak.