I've been always fascinated with sunrises and sunsets, so I built a picam to take timelapses:
https://hackaday.io/project/28694-yet-another-raspberry-pica...
youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkH0MTHo-LlxOL_W_3Qeq9Q
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?
#412I have several of them: * 1 original model that runs pi-hole for the household * 1 RPi 3 running RetroPie for emulating classic video games * 1 RPi 3 connected to an official RPi touch screen display that runs a Home Assistant UI * 4 RPI 3s running as a Kubernetes cluster, mostly just for the fun of setting it up, but I have a few odd jobs that run on them, such as chat bots I don't have a picture of the cluster all…
How difficult was to setup the cluster using kubeadmin? did you run into too many issues because memory, cpu, etc?
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#413I've made some interesting projects over the years - only a writeup on a few of these, and some are in pieces and in various states of disrepair after moving so much. Some write ups on larger projects: 1. I used a raspberry pi to coordinate the firing of multiple cameras, and then had the pi upload to a cloud service that would stitch them together to an "infinite zoom" super selfie. https://medium.com/@thekeithchest…
Disney now have exactly what you described in your first project as a photo opportunity at the Magic Kingdom.
https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2019/05/enjoy-new-dis...
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#414Currently: Raspberry Pi 1B+: Streaming radio scanner to Broadcastify Raspberry Pi 2B: Octoprint Raspberry Pi 2B: Signage, looping videos on a 32" TV Raspberry Pi 3B: Duplicity "server" (backup software) Raspberry Pi 3B+: Web dev box Previously: Raspberry Pi 1B: Hylafax server Raspberry Pi 2B: Kodi
What are you using to play the looping videos?
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#415I have several * Pie-hole and runs Nagios to collect information about things going on inside the network. * One running a PiDP-11 (pdp 11/70 emulator) as well as providing MOP service to boot my DEC terminal multiplexor (it provides the boot image when the mux comes up) * One is a stratum-1 time server using an Adafruit GPS module with PPS output. This because I got tired of both the reflection attacks and trying to…
> This one is a candidate for replacement as the 4K monitor would be nice here. You might be able to run 4k display with an old RPi at about 8-10 Hz.
The Pi is memory bandwidth limited as it is, that would probably kill it completely. Even the RPi2 was really only responsive enough with a 720p display.
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Despite many people's preconceptions about the goodness of the internet, I must admit that they do a wonderful job caring for my plant! Maybe I should create a subreddit where people can control a bot that has access to my bank accounts so they can manage my finances, invest some, etc. ;-)
Didn't someone do this with Twitch Plays Stocks? Essentially gave them some capital and let the chat decide what trades to make. They nuked the portfolio within 24 hours.
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#417A security camera NVR. (Help wanted! I'm developing it here: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr I'm proud of the design but it's still far from a polished system that does everything a reasonable person would expect. Lots of opportunities to extend it if you're looking for a fun Rust + Javascript project.) A Raspberry Pi 2 will run a working setup; the new Raspberry Pi 4 should be a lot more pleasant in terms…
I've been looking for something like Moonfire! Do you have any recommendations for an outdoor camera, I was looking at Lorex but don't have much experience? Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#418I 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…
> Despite many people's preconceptions about the goodness of the internet, I must admit that they do a wonderful job caring for my plant! Maybe I should create a subreddit where people can control a bot that has access to my bank accounts so they can manage my finances, invest some, etc. ;-)
Wisdom of the crowds
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#419Currently: Raspberry Pi 1B+: Streaming radio scanner to Broadcastify Raspberry Pi 2B: Octoprint Raspberry Pi 2B: Signage, looping videos on a 32" TV Raspberry Pi 3B: Duplicity "server" (backup software) Raspberry Pi 3B+: Web dev box Previously: Raspberry Pi 1B: Hylafax server Raspberry Pi 2B: Kodi
What are you using to play the looping videos?
If you need a professional solution for more than a single screen, consider taking a look at https://info-beamer.com (my companies product). Otherwise omxplayer has a -loop argument IIRC.
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#420I've made some interesting projects over the years - only a writeup on a few of these, and some are in pieces and in various states of disrepair after moving so much. Some write ups on larger projects: 1. I used a raspberry pi to coordinate the firing of multiple cameras, and then had the pi upload to a cloud service that would stitch them together to an "infinite zoom" super selfie. https://medium.com/@thekeithchest…
Disney now have exactly what you described in your first project as a photo opportunity at the Magic Kingdom. https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2019/05/enjoy-new-dis...
Nice! Thanks for the link. Our goal was to hit a cool shot a mile away on a target in the middle of a giant concert for a "I was there!" memento shot. Good to see it in practice somewhere.
Unfortunately the sales team didn't understand it, and what sales team doesn't understand sales team doesn't sell.
...I'm very happily in another company that gets tech - but man I wish we could have sold that project. The effect was really cool when we had it working fine.