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Using several Raspberry Pis to monitor CO2 levels in my house. Each Raspberry Pi has a CO2 sensor - wrote a little Python script to retrieve data from sensor and upload it to a server Which is also a Raspberry Pi.
I'm interested in this too. It would be even cooler to link these CO2 sensors into Apple's HomeKit somehow...
I have it set up to run a project where a subreddit has control over the watering of a live plant in my apartment. The pi runs a reddit bot that reads the votes, and can switch on a pump to water. It also collects data about sunlight, moisture, temp and humidity to help inform the decision about watering. Despite many people's preconceptions about the goodness of the internet, I must admit that they do a wonderful jo…
Out of curiosity, how did you come up with this idea?
1x 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…
Can you go in more depth about this? How did you integrate it with the entertainment system, and what do specifically do you do with it?
2. Build said Ceph cluster.
3. Become disillusioned with both SD and USB I/O.
4. Place all of them in storage.
5. Buy 8 Tinkerboards, hoping to make an awesome Ceph cluster....
That was the easiest way to avoid ground loops in my home audio setup.
Pi-Hole, RetroPie, and for my 1st-grade son I installed Kano OS for his first computer. I see a couple of Pi 4s as upgrades in my future. Also looking to get my SDR rig up and running on one of the other Pis i have waiting to be used.
Anything you've learned to share about having it as a computer for your first grader? I recently set one up for my daughter, same age, but haven't put much thought into the software side yet. She's played Minecraft-pi a couple of times, we made the cat meow in Scratch, and we used it to watch a movie the other day, but that's it so far.
It's great that Kano makes it available standalone. Kano OS has all the activities built into the image, including visual coding of Minecraft and other tools, and guided lessons around using the Terminal. Chromium and LibreOffice are also installed by default. There's also a curated app "store" like experience to add new games.
Installing CUPS to add our printer to the Kano OS Pi was pretty straightforward, so he also uses it for personal writing and printing out stories.
It's really engaging for our son, and provides ample time for parent-child learning opportunities to boot. We ended up getting the Pixel Kit while we were at it, and Kano OS picked up on it immediately and exposed all the lessons for it.
Hoping their move to Windows 10 doesn't leave their Kano OS image locked to a Pi 3, though. I'd love to upgrade his Pi to a 4 soon.
Kano OS Image: https://hello.kano.me/downloads/