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Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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We use one in the office to monitor the Jenkins build status of our dev branch. https://github.com/SeanCline/build-indicator/

Hardware-wise, it's just a Pi and UnicornHat. I wanted to use off-the-shelf components since it's in an office environment with rather strict rules about what can be plugged into the wall.

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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I used a Rapsberry Pi (and a lot of Dynamixel servos, LiPo, gyro, etc) to build a small hexapod robot. I was mostly interested in learning about legged locomotion, and got a bit carried away. Using a normal-ish Linux platform with GPIO and USB devices made it really easy (and fun) to hack everything together.

https://github.com/adammck/hexapod

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Although not strictly a Raspberry Pi project, I have a couple C.H.I.P. boards[1] scattered throughout my apartment collecting temperature and humidity readings (using a HIH8120 sensor[2]) and feeding it to my Raspberry Pi which runs InfluxDB and Chronograf[3] to store and display a simple dashboard. The end result looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/cIrhSUq.png [1]: https://getchip.com/ [2]: https://sensing.honeywell…

This is really cool! I've been thinking about a similar idea lately and this seems like a great way of doing it. Do you by chance have any material on how you got the honeywell sensor working with the C.H.I.P. board? (This would be my first electronics project)

This was my first electronics project as well and I chose the Honeywell sensor because it has decent humidity accuracy (which is what I was mostly interested in) and a bonus temperature sensor built in. It uses the I2C protocol for communication which I found pleasant to work with although it would probably be simpler to just use am analog voltage sensor.

Here's the program I wrote to read the sensor over I2C: https://gist.github.com/tsyd/f48e933a21fb40b9f9eea28118f54e0...

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Recreating the Sony Aibo robot dog using a pile of cheap servos, 3 axis gyro, the camera, wireless, neopixel lights, LiIon power, etc. Shoulder joints, body shell and chassis 3d printed. Total cost is around $150. Locomotion is largely based upon the designs documented by Cynthia Brezeal Ferrell (MIT mobile robots lab, under Prof. Rod Brooks) in her PhD thesis for the hexapod robot, Atilla/Hannibal. The first attempt…

Could you share more about your experience with elastic actuators? What did your hardware look like? I'm working on something similar, and would love your input.

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Although not strictly a Raspberry Pi project, I have a couple C.H.I.P. boards[1] scattered throughout my apartment collecting temperature and humidity readings (using a HIH8120 sensor[2]) and feeding it to my Raspberry Pi which runs InfluxDB and Chronograf[3] to store and display a simple dashboard. The end result looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/cIrhSUq.png [1]: https://getchip.com/ [2]: https://sensing.honeywell…

Interesting... But what do you do with this data?

Nothing in particular. I just wanted a way to view the temperature and humidity in my apartment when I'm out. Also I wanted to know what affects the humidity in my apartment and by how much (for example, you can see when I take my morning shower). In the future I may use the data to control a humidifier to turn it on whenever the humidity drops below a certain level.

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really cool! I've been thinking about a similar idea lately and this seems like a great way of doing it. Do you by chance have any material on how you got the honeywell sensor working with the C.H.I.P. board? (This would be my first electronics project)

This was my first electronics project as well and I chose the Honeywell sensor because it has decent humidity accuracy (which is what I was mostly interested in) and a bonus temperature sensor built in. It uses the I2C protocol for communication which I found pleasant to work with although it would probably be simpler to just use am analog voltage sensor. Here's the program I wrote to read the sensor over I2C: https:…

I'll most certainly be checking this out in the near future. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

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I built a tube internet radio with speech output of station names and switching stations with the AM dial. A small USB mouse picks up the rotation, a python script speaks the station name and passes the stream URL to gmediarenderer. Sound via USB soundcard and Phono/Aux input. Inspired by http://blog.scphillips.com/posts/2014/05/playing-music-on-a-....

Some pictures at http://imgur.com/a/r834D

Re: Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project

#60
Some friends and I built a jukebox with lights that react meaningfully to the chords and beats in the music (using Chordify). We brought it to Burning Man as an art project. It's nothing compared to the other crazy ambitious stuff people do there - but it was our first real electronics project, and we had to learn a lot as we went.

Here's a grainy video: https://youtu.be/sXVZhv_Xi0I

Here's the code: https://github.com/nick264/music-processor-master

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