Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by bigiain » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:12 AM UTC

bardonadam wrote: post #466

lloydpick wrote: post #401

2 Pis for dealing with ADS-B (airplane data), one for 1090Mhz, the other for 978Mhz. I could run that on the same one, but seemed easier to just split them up given some of the software is a bit picky with device IDs. The 978Mhz is much quieter than the 1090Mhz, so I also run a private SpyServer ( https://github.com/lloydpick/docker-spyserver ) for listening to radio transmissions. 1 Raspberry Pi for a running a very…

Love the sitcom sound thing!

Me too. I've always though I and my friends should all have individual theme songs that play when they enter the room. Now I have another weekend project...

Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by watsocd » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:14 AM UTC

I run my own energy monitoring business. We use many RPi's for remote customer site energy meter data collection and forwarding to our cloud based REST servers. Once we got over the SD card issues, I have had zero problems and no hardware failures (including SD card issues) in four years now.

Because of the low cost, I always install two units on every site; one is powered and idle but ready to take over if the other fails. Not hot-standby but close enough for my purposes.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by vibrio » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:15 AM UTC

tylerjaywood wrote: post #418

iforgotpassword wrote: post #393

Earlier 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. ;-)

Wisdom of the crowds

Reference Boaty McBoatface

Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by jbuzbee » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:16 AM UTC

I have a bunch of headless Zero Ws spread around the house, each monitoring temperature and reporting themselves over multicast DNS

http://jpbuzbee.asuscomm.com/

Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by chadd » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:25 AM UTC

With my 16 year old son, I built a weather balloon with one, including an Arduino, a few temperature sensors, a GPS, LoRA radio, and we're going to launch it next month. Having a hard time finding Helium.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:28 AM UTC

pacoWebConsult wrote: post #396

iforgotpassword wrote: post #393

Earlier 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.

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Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by gregsadetsky » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:32 AM UTC

There's a bus station across from my studio / coworking space. I can see people waiting for the bus and doing either: 1) staring into the void 2) looking at their watches 3) desperately glancing in the direction where the bus is coming from.

I figured that it'd be nice to let people know when the bus is supposed to be there. So, I installed a 28" display on a monitor stand, installed the stand on my window frame, turned the monitor to face the bus station, and show the up-to-date arrival time in a very big font (the buses have GPS; the Pi gets the real time info from the local transit authority).

This is in Montreal. Some info here [0]. And a little video [1].

[0] https://greg.technology/#bus [1] https://youtu.be/pc16oPb5zW0

Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by hermitdev » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:33 AM UTC

jonaswi wrote: post #479

fdjlasdfjl wrote: post #428

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I could actually use exactly that. Do you have a blog outlining how you did it, or the code on github by any chance?

No sadly not. I'd love to write about it but my English is just not good enough to write a compelling story. Writing it in German and then having it translated is always a bit of a hassle. But I may consider it. At the moment I have an offer of the door drive manufacturer for doing a "home story" about the solution. If that will happen, it will definitely be released in English. I will open source everything once I'm…

I wouldn't underestimate your English skills. What you've written here is perfectly serviceable.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by rapfaria » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:34 AM UTC

I use one to receive GPS signals. Whenever I'm Not fully automated since I still have to put the capsule in the morning, but works great.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:34 AM UTC

gregsadetsky wrote: post #617

There's a bus station across from my studio / coworking space. I can see people waiting for the bus and doing either: 1) staring into the void 2) looking at their watches 3) desperately glancing in the direction where the bus is coming from. I figured that it'd be nice to let people know when the bus is supposed to be there. So, I installed a 28" display on a monitor stand, installed the stand on my window frame, tur…

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