PiHole for one and Media player for the other.
Will be buying the new one to up my media player then I'll have a spare :-D
Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
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#952I have an old Raspberry Pi 1 that runs headless raspbian with a set of cheap speakers plugged into it and an old usb wifi adaptor. It has only one purpose: to play a wav file of a telephone ringing for one minute. My spouse does not ever have the ringer on her cell phone. So when I am out and I need her to look at her phone, I VPN in to my home network, ssh into the pi using Terminus on my iphone, and 'aplay' the wav…
I do something similar but using the Twilio API I send texts to the Pi that do various things including making a ringing sound.
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Wow. I literally just sat down to relax after building a cardboard prototype cat door fitting in my open window in winter. You just made me feel partly inferior, and partly like I'm in good company
Now check out this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A-Nf3QIJjM A cat door that can tell if the cat has a mouse it's going to "gift" to you, and locks to keep the cat out.
awesome, tho I am curious are there easier ways like weighing the cat before and after :) Although he can be wet
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#954Feed my rat online – http://neelkadia.com/feedmyflash
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#955I have a (basically non-existent) side business selling LED strips and RPi lighting controllers for surfboards! If you've seem some viral videos with guys surfing around at night, they were probably using my gear :-) Briefly put, I use the Glediator and Jinx! control software on an RPi, which communicates with an Arduino, which drives the LEDs. I put them in a permanently sealed box, water proof it as much as I possi…
Curious if you have any watering solutions for external gardens using a Pi?
Sure! You can buy electric water pumps fairly cheap online. They normally come as 12V devices so you'll have to use a relay and a 12V supply, and some sort of circuit to drive the relay using the 3.3V GPIO from the Pi. You can control the pins using Python and the RPI.GPIO library. I personally use a Zerodis DC 12V Homebrew Beer Pump (although there are about 50 other types on Amazon) and a length of hose pipe which goes to a rain water bucket that I've put beneath my drain pipe. The other end goes to a sprinkler. Super simple system that took only a day to set up, so I highly recommend something similar for all you absent gardeners.
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#956There'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 am just wondering here - why does not the bus stop have the digital schedule set up? Is it normal for Canada?
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#957I have a Raspberry Pi 2,3 and 0W. 2 as a media and games center with RetroPi and Kodi. 3 as a Web server using LAMP and Wordpress. And 0W as a server for my non wifi printer.
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#958I have a Raspberry 2, 3 and 0W. 2 as a media server with RetroPi and Kodi. 3 as a web server using LAMP and Wordpress. and the 0W to work with my non WiFi printer.
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#960As a braille user, I was always fond of "laptops" without a built-in display, simply to save ssace, weight and power. I found a braille display which features a small compartment with micro-USB inside. Used a Pi Zero (these days 0w) to transform that braille display into a full-features Linux laptop. I documented the first version here: https://blind.guru/brlpi.html
Cool. You make reference to fonts. I assume this isn't font in the traditional sense, ie the look (feel?) of a character.
Nope, I actually do refer to fonts as you know them. Long story short, prior to linux kernel 4.19 and brltty 6.0, only those characters that are mapped to a glyph in the currently loaded console font can be backtranslated to the actual codepoint. So to be able to read unicode braille (0x2800-0x28FF) I needed to load a braille font in addition to the standard latin glyph.
This dependency on the loaded font has been removed with linux 4.19 and brltty 6.0. Now, there is a new device (/dev/vcsu) which can be used to read the unicode codepoints of characters on the console, without having to go through the loaded font.