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

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Post by peteforde » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 3:18 AM UTC

JVIDEL wrote: post #979

peteforde wrote: post #720

I started a company that constructed booths which used 70 accurately sync'd Pis with custom PiCams (fitted with lenses) to take pictures of human subjects, for turning them into avatars like this: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/pete-swagger-walk-a55d807de1... At the beginning of the project, I'd barely powered up the Pis I had collecting dust in my drawer. By the end, I was a legitimate domain expert in several nich…

Side question: how did the company go? and what was the product (the animation) for? games?

Unfortunately, things didn't end well. I can't actually talk about it.

The business plan morphed significantly during our 4-year run, from 3D pet scanning to location-based branded marketing to what was going to be a big gaming focus (my vote) or glorified 3D emojis (their vote).

I wanted any game/experience that featured characters/avatars to be able to allow people to play as themselves. I didn't get a chance to see that concept through.

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

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Post by erklik » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 4:12 AM UTC

vitomd wrote: post #816

sdfin wrote: post #528

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Interesting. Would you recommend some brand of security cameras that work well for this kind of projects. Where I live the more popular brands are Dahua and Hikvision. Maybe I have to look for a certain communication protocol, rather than for a special brand.

In my case the security camera is also a raspberry pi with the camera module (it could have night vision), connected with a webcam logitech c170 (really cheap) and the motion software to detect movement ( https://github.com/Motion-Project ).

If its a raspberry pi with a camer amodule, then why is there a need for the webcam? Sorry if I am misunderstanding.

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

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Post by erlemantos » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 6:20 AM UTC

A programmable, annoying, rotating alarm. Triggered every time a Jenkins build fails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgXXkwVXqvI

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

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Post by erlemantos » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 6:21 AM UTC

A programmable, annoying, MQTT-triggered rotating alarm.

Used to annoy people when a Jenkins build fails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgXXkwVXqvI

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

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Post by Xelbair » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 10:07 AM UTC

Absolutely nothing.

Because i still need to buy a micro HDMI cable :)

The plan is to setup a piHole, make a SMB share on usb HDD, and if it has enough juice left - connect it to TV and setup it with some streaming services.

I would love to have a small home server rack but both power costs and space constraints prevent me from setting it up. i might do it on multiple RPI's - and maybe add a NAS for storage later on.

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

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Post by stephenwithav » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 10:18 AM UTC

jonaswi wrote: post #399

I live in an apartment with quite strict fire-protection standards. Due to the fact that I have a cat that absolutly loves to go outside, I needed to find a solution for him to get outside without a catdoor trough my door. So I installed a fire-protecion-approved door drive that is hooked to a raspberry pi. Another raspberry pi then analyzes a video stream and detects my cat. If my cat is in the frame for n amount of…

Can you please open-source this?

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

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Post by neumann » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 10:28 AM UTC

All headless:

One for Kodi+VPN. With yatse on Android I have my own Netflix and Spotify for my own owned content on demand whenever.

Another for a baby monitor that feeds TinyCamPro with audio and video

A third that is a slave Kodi to play music in different part of the house as well, but mainly to operate the electric gate from my phone.

About to buy a rp4 to build a synth with a keyboard I just got.

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

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Post by neop1x » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 12:55 PM UTC

HTPC for local home IPTV, another one as a wifi camera photo forwarder (security camera), another one as ADS-B receiver for adsbexchange.com and flightradar24.com

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

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Post by the_angry_angel » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 1:04 PM UTC

e12e wrote: post #918

the_angry_angel wrote: post #391

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You can absolutely configure IPSec tunnels on Fortinet. Can I ask, do you perform updates and maintenance on these boxes? How do they perform in terms of throughput with openvpn?

I'd be more interested if wireguard is an option, and how it performs. Since they're already on linux/oss.

IPSec is pretty much the standard interop still - pretty much everything talks it Cisco, Juniper, pfSense, Fortinet, etc. You name it I’d be surprised if it didn’t have support.

I’d love to see wireguard implemented in the networking world, but I think it may take some time to get there :/

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

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Post by childintime » Thu, Jun 27, 2019, 2:04 PM UTC

marci wrote: post #745

gregsadetsky wrote: post #684

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Ha, small world :-) Agreed on timing, it could be better. I'll consider skipping some of the words + make them appear slower. Thanks for the suggestion!

BUS 55 - DANS - 5MIN ?

Is it too nerdy to just write "BUS 55", "+5MIN" ?

You'll also have 50% more screens in the same amount of time.