Homeassistant (Hass with mqtt and grafana), Octoprint, MotionEyeOS, pihole, pivpn, Donkey car, Robot operating system (ROS), and a wireless controller for my crazyflie quadcopter
Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
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#22I'm totally naive with Raspberry Pi..can someone comment on the following project: Is it possible to put a glass eye behind a portrait of a one-eyed pirate and make its eye move around/follow whoever enters the room? A friend has a glass eye but nothing to do with it.
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#23Right 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.)
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#24Pi-hole, and my home backup target using an external HDD and Samba.
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#25I have a small Internet kiosk for one-off browsing and guests.
Currently, mine is running on an ODROID-C2 but the Pi 4 should have more than enough performance for one.
My setup is a stripped down install with a minimal window manager. There's only one icon for launching Firefox which is configured in an amnesic mode. The DNS is set to my Pi-hole.
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#26We use it as a front end to our Church's AV system. It runs a GUI written in Python with PySide that controls our cameras, hyperdeck recorder and vision mixer.
It also controls the power switches for the system, and the blinds.
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#271) PiHole
2) Wired one into a rotary phone to make a weird steampunky smarthouse controller (Dial '0' to turn off all downstairs lights and music, etc)
3) Various LED controls for fun, and Christmas
4) Always experimenting with MycroftAI to stay away from Alexa
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#28I use my Pi2 as a media player (LibreElec), and just ordered a Pi4 4gb which I'm planning to replace my ageing server and NAS with.
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#29I'm working on turning it into a IR emitter to control some stuff that I have that lack remotes. I have another I've loaded snips onto an will be experimenting with soon - I'm currently using a PlayStation eye for the experimentation, but will have to get a better microphone/speaker. I wish I could hack a dot/echo/etc. and use their microphone/speaker, but meh, I'll take what I can get. Also, the IR pi will probably…
> I'm working on turning it into a IR emitter to control some stuff that I have that lack remotes
That's really neat. Please share some details – I was planning on buying a Broadlink IR/RF device for that purpose.
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#30Primarily, an always-on node to run wake-on-lan (via etherwake) on other home network nodes, and to act as an SSH bastion when other entrypoints are failing.