I used mine as a dlna server and file server, but I was constantly having to restart it or delete the database to get it to pick up new files I had recently dragged on to it. Has anyone been able to use one successfully for serving media?
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#32I use them as controllers/monitors for remotely managing a 3d printer farm. At about $40 total extra per printer for the pi and associated hardware, and an open source utility called "octoprint", i'm able to remotely upload, monitor, cancel/pause, and have a camera feed to each printer. They also give some additional nice-to-haves by allowing me to upgrade the printer firmware remotely, and get very accurate print completion estimation times.
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#33Using it to run an order scheduling system in store of an automated coffee chain startup we're developing.
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#34Mine is running in my attic, hooked up to three antennas on my roof:
1. A GPS antenna which provides an accurate “stratum 0” time source. The pi runs ntpd and provides time for all devices on my network.
2. A home built ADS-B antenna for receiving position reports from local aircraft and airliners. Interfaces to the pi with a USB SDR. Pi runs dump1090 to provide a web visualization of local air traffic. I also feed FlightAware with this info.
3. A home built VHF antenna for listening to airband transmissions. Second SDR. Pi runs scanner software and an IceCast server for clients on my network to connect and listen.
The pi also has a temperature sensor that logs once a minute so I can plot my attic’s temperature and I can have it alert me if it gets too hot.
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#35I don't use it, I never got around to it because I'm not actually all that interested in computers, at least not in the sense that I thought I was.
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#36My Raspberry Pi 3 works as a CUPS print server connected to a laser printer, as a pi-hole DNS server to filter ads, and as a ssh entry point (with dynamic DNS). I would use a Pi zero, but Ghostscript is not too happy when printing large documents on a single-core processor with 512 MB of ram. I still have to find the time to set-up a backup server on it (and decide which software to use).
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#37I use it to build a cloud backup system. My files in the computer will automatically sync to Raspberry Pi.
What software do you use for your setup?
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#38I'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.
Lemme think. A camera that observes the room from the portrait, anyone that walks in is a dot on a plane, and it points the eye at the point on the plane. Should be doable. Yes, the Pi should handle that fairly easily.
The part that you'll have to figure out is making the eye ball rotate. There are GPIO pins on the Pi, so you can get the commands out, but you'll need to build the eyeball component yourself.
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#391. I used a Raspberry Pi Zero W to flash Coreboot onto my Lenovo X200.
2. I have a 3 B+ running RetroPie.
3. I use a model 1 with USB Wi-Fi adapter as a wireless print server for an old LaserJet printer.
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#40I built the RadioInstigator, a mobile SigInt attack platform for around $150.
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/mobile-sigint-hacking-on-a-c...
If it wasn't for F5OEO's Rpitx library, I would have been stuck with non-SDR Tx. https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx