After reading the replies in this thread, I just feel so inferior. I can't solder to save my life and here people have made amazing things. :(
Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
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#842A few years ago some of my coworkers used a Raspberry Pi to instrument our work foosball table. They had badge readers so all the players could badge in, and IR sensors for autoscoring. They found some open-source foosball leaderboard software that they ran on the Raspberry Pi as well, so we had an auto-scoring, auto-ranking foosball table. Best Raspberry Pi project I've ever seen :)
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#843Another friend of mine also used a Raspberry Pi with MagicMirror (https://magicmirror.builders/) to build a smart mirror. That was a neat project.
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#844There'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…
I live nearby and often use this when catching the 55! Sort of surreal to start reading your post and immediately recognize it's something from just a block away!
Hey, I also take the 55 but I never saw the screen!
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#845I installed the Pi-hole ad blocker (https://pi-hole.net/) on a Raspberry Pi Zero, and have it as my DNS server on my home network. It has improved general browsing speed tremendously.
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#846Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> No sadly not. I'd love to write about it but my English is just not good enough to write a compelling story.
Reads like a monty python sketch.
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#847I pulled a prank at the office with my RPi.
I built a very simple circuit to listen to 5V pin of HDMI and I hid RPi and the circuit under the desk of a colleague after work and turned off video output of RPi. Colleague's laptop -HDMI> RPi -HDMI> external display. when the colleague comes to work and turn on the laptop, my RPi turned on its video output and external display showed the website I made for the occasion.
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#848I'm giving my son a classical education with it. Using Retropi
Every now and then we play "Daddy's games", so he has NES megadrive, and MAME (PacMan mainly). As he starts to master those, I'll add the next generation to it. If we've played some of the same games, hopefully it gives us some form of common framework, and him an interest in how he could code something similar i.e. a gateway in to computers. If he decides he doesn't like it, that's fine too.
So far it's goign well - we set off on the adventure 6 months ago when he was 4. I'll also get another microUSB card and try trhe same with my daughter when she's a bit older (currently she's 2).
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#849A device that waits for the SSID of my Olympus WiFi-enabled camera to show up and then sync all new photos: https://github.com/gvalkov/olympus-photosync-server https://github.com/gvalkov/olympus-photosync
That's cool!
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#850Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you use MITMProxy or Charles you can easily intercept the traffic on 99% of all iPhone/Android apps (bit harder if pinned-sertificate). These API’s are often stable because a lot of users don’t update their apps that often.
For newer android apps this is no longer true. By default, apps only trust system CA's. User added System CA's are not trusted by apps. I believe only the browser uses the user added CA's.
That is why these systems generate their own certificate that you add to your phone, so you still can see the traffic.
For MITMProxy you can visit http://mimt.it when the setup is running.
A bit more difficult with “pinned-setificate” where you have to:
1) Decompile the app (easy if you search for the online APK-download and APK-decompile tools)
2) Move the certificate out of the APK and use it for the traffic between MITMProxy/Charles and the server
3) Replace the certificate in the APK with one generated for MITMProxy/Charles, or just delete it if that works for the app (most likely not)
4) Re-compile the APK and install on your device
5) Run MITMProxy/Charles as before, just with some parameters to load the “pinned-certificate”
(There is also a lot of guides for this. Maybe not for pinned-certificate.)