I'm a pilot - the bug masher kind flying general aviation. I use a pi with a couple USB digital radios and wifi to read adsb weather and other aircraft locations when flying, adding it to the moving maps on a tablet. The stratux project (http://stratux.me) started off as a bit of interesting hacking on reddit, and really took off into a mature bit of software/hardware. This does almost everything the $800+ stratus does for pennies on the dollar.
Ask HN: What have you done with Raspberry Pi so far?
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#12I'm a pilot - the bug masher kind flying general aviation. I use a pi with a couple USB digital radios and wifi to read adsb weather and other aircraft locations when flying, adding it to the moving maps on a tablet. The stratux project ( http://stratux.me ) started off as a bit of interesting hacking on reddit, and really took off into a mature bit of software/hardware. This does almost everything the $800+ stratus…
Wow, do you ever plan to replace fly by wire electronics with a Pi?
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#13Used to run it with Pi-Hole, but ultimately failed and I have to resolute to use my homelab. I was facing egregious segfaults and kernel panics due to the SD card controller, in high mysterious, cannot respond to IO requests. This also happened to my Rock64.
Is it really that fragile that it can't run Pinhole for even a year?
Or it has to do with the experience of the user?
Did you've Powerbackup? How did it corrupt your card?
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#14A pi-hole for my home network. I love it.
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#15I'm currently building a small reminder and timer device with time tracking functionality. Touchscreen, maybe battery powered for a bit if possible (it'll probably be plugged in most of the time but it would be nice to move it around the house).
I'm sure there are phone apps that do this, but I hate my phone and I want to integrate it with one of my web applications to some extent.
It's been fun playing with and hits the sweet spot between convenience and price. A nice break from web development.
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#16Being annoyed at it for being slow and always needing more packages, installs and cryptic options that need to be changed in config files.
btw: is there a alternative that “just works”?
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#17Pihole, Been running a few years. Best endorsement was wife remarked one day "it's really annoying to use the internet when I'm not home"
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#18Use a zero to dive a LED board for a desk clock. I really need to make an enclosure for it but with no 3-d printer it's too much work.
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#19I have a Pi 3B+ which I run RetroPie on. It's great for older NES, SNES and GameBoy games, but not so great for N64 games (it tends to lag a bit)
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#20Being annoyed at it for being slow and always needing more packages, installs and cryptic options that need to be changed in config files. btw: is there a alternative that “just works”?
I guess this comes down to what you use it for - I have a 3B+ for emulating games and it works perfectly