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

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

#81

Post by jedberg » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 5:47 PM UTC

A lot of folks have said "pihole". I have a linux server at home that does my DNS and a bunch of other stuff. I also have a pi3 still in the box.

Would there be an advantage to me running pihole on the pi3 instead of on my linux server?

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

#82

Post by alanbernstein » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 5:47 PM UTC

I have 5 or more in my house, some bought, some inherited. One of them runs pi-hole. I'm in the middle of setting up octopi for a new 3d printer on another one. Two of the others are pi zeros (no wireless), no plan for those any time soon. I also have one of the older models, RCA video output instead of HDMI. I'm not sure I'll ever find a use for that one.

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

#83

Post by epmaybe » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 5:47 PM UTC

I'm using a Raspberry Pi (Gen 1, Model B I think) to run a smart mirror. It pulls up my daily commute, news headlines, weather, and calendar. I take no credit for the software (https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror)

I also had one connected to my Motorola LapDock back in 2012 to run a portable raspbian laptop. It worked surprisingly well.

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

#84

Post by shriphani » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 5:48 PM UTC

Mine drives an LED pixel frame in my living room: https://www.instagram.com/p/BIgFP9dhkPZ/

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

#85

Post by sucrose » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 5:48 PM UTC

youeeeeeediot wrote: post #18

Running piAware for flight tracking https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/

Is there a benefit to personally tracking flights instead of querying 3rd parties?

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

#86

Post by TheGRS » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 5:48 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #81

A lot of folks have said "pihole". I have a linux server at home that does my DNS and a bunch of other stuff. I also have a pi3 still in the box. Would there be an advantage to me running pihole on the pi3 instead of on my linux server?

I don't see why, its just neat to have a little dedicated device next to your router IMO.

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

#87

Post by Ftuuky » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 5:49 PM UTC

Have any of you done something with machine learning on rpi? Like face recognition or some fun robot. I'm looking at rpi4+google coral and it seems impressive enough to run interesting projects.

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

#88

Post by s-macke » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 5:49 PM UTC

Pihole and tvheadend

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

#89

Post by ebrewste » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 5:49 PM UTC

A bunch: - Ubiquiti network controller, Pi Hole - Temperature controller to knit an ancient hydronic in floor heater and a new-ish mini split together to act in unison. Pings local national weather stations to get more accurate data than I care to replicate at my home. - Octoprint for my 3d printer - 4x for a hobby project stitching together video from multiple cameras

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

#90

Post by kingnothing » Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 5:50 PM UTC

It was bought with the intention of using it as an emulator for old games, but it just sits unused in a closet.