Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI?

I built a kodi media player but it won't do Netflix so i bought a smart TV. I have many plans for my two pis but I'll probably never get around to doing anything with them. I wonder how many rpis are sitting idle on desks around the world

Re: Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI?

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Post by root_node » Thu, Apr 05, 2018, 10:40 PM UTC

Built a Media Player using Kodi. Then Netflix happened.

Re: Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI?

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Post by stadeschuldt » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 8:19 AM UTC

I built a solar panel monitoring solution:

http://solarpi.tafkas.net/

Code is on Github: https://github.com/Tafkas/solarpi

Re: Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI?

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Post by kejaed » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 4:09 PM UTC

Used it (along with an arduino) to control RGB LED strips for my Deck Lights project. It was great fun, then I sold the house and moved!

Used Remi for a web control gui and platform.io on the rpi to be able to program the arduino headless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww1q248jc7Q

https://imgur.com/a/E4lbU

https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNote...

Re: Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI?

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Post by trobanga » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

https://github.com/trobanga/pifidelity Audioplayer with touchscreen display that shows blinkenlights while playing music :)

Re: Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI?

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Post by ecesena » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 7:09 PM UTC

stadeschuldt wrote: post #6

I built a solar panel monitoring solution: http://solarpi.tafkas.net/ Code is on Github: https://github.com/Tafkas/solarpi

Do you have details on the solar panel and the rest of the infrastructure? (or a blog post?)

Re: Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI?

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Post by cjcampbell » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 10:10 PM UTC

I use Pi's to teach introductory networking concepts to undergraduates, configuring various network functions and building out a mini-Internet.

Hoping to get the projects polished up a bit more this quarter and to publish a repo with guides and configurations. I've also convinced a handful of students to tackle some more interesting applications and modern networking concepts in lieu of the standard course project.