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Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI?

9 points by maxwellito 9y ago

Out of set up a classic distro (media player, retro gaming..), what did you do with it? I'm just curious about interesting hacks and concepts :)

discussedbefore 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14856277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14856277
darienbc 9y ago
https://www.wiforms.com https://www.wiforms.com
- Rjevski 9y ago
  This is actually a neat idea, though the design of the form page could've been better.
roryisok 9y ago
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
root_node 9y ago
Built a Media Player using Kodi. Then Netflix happened.
stadeschuldt 9y ago
I built a solar panel monitoring solution: http://solarpi.tafkas.net/ http://solarpi.tafkas.net/ Code is on Github: https://github.com/Tafkas/solarpi https://github.com/Tafkas/solarpi
- ecesena 9y ago
  Do you have details on the solar panel and the rest of the infrastructure? (or a blog post?)
kejaed 9y ago
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww1q248jc7Q https://imgur.com/a/E4lbU https://imgur.com/a/E4lbU https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNotes.md https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNote...
trobanga 9y ago
https://github.com/trobanga/pifidelity https://github.com/trobanga/pifidelity Audioplayer with touchscreen display that shows blinkenlights while playing music :)
cjcampbell 9y ago
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.
astoellis 9y ago
I wrote a few bash scripts with my pi and a remote NodeJS server to capture timelapse photos of my jalapeno plant growing and compiled them with ffmpeg. Here's my writeup if anyone's interested, and a few gifs of the results. writeup: https://blog.codelemur.com/pepper-pics/ https://blog.codelemur.com/pepper-pics/ results: (desktop users) https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/SelfishVillainousAustrianpinscher https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/SelfishVillainousAustrianpins... (mobile users) https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SelfishVillainousAustrianpinscher-size_restricted.gif https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SelfishVillainousAustrianpinscher-...
p0d 9y ago
A heating system, thermostat, for my shed. I hooked up a temperature sensor and relay to control a 500w heater in my shed office. A Python script checks the temperature every five minutes using cron and turns the heater off/on. I also keep graphs. I only work in the shed on Thursdays/Fridays which are reflected in my graphs. http://shed.chrismatchett.co.uk http://shed.chrismatchett.co.uk
Odenwaelder 9y ago
I built a smart home system with FHEM and HomeMatic for my second flat. I was able to turn on the heating, set and monitor the temperature. This saved my lots of energy costs compared to a timer-based system, as well as many cold nights because the heating didn't turn on at the right time. Neither the flat, nor the smart home system still exist. Once I move into a new flat, I'll build another one.
interatx 9y ago
I've probably abused it too much but its shocking how much it load it can bare. * Ebook Server * Ad Block via DNS * Router (needed me to get an expensive wifi receiver) over VPN * Mini build system to publish my blog * Auto-backs up my NAS box to S3 / Glacier (and then test-restore the latest backup) every month * Auto-emails me based on a wide variety cron-jobs that check the weather, stock market, rss feeds, etc * Grabs by RSS feeds and bookmarks * Offline cache for some stuff * Downloads videos for later reference * Automatically texts me when I've not written anything worthwhile (in code or blog) for a while [edit] * Using it to teach python / basic programming

9 points by maxwellito 9y ago

Out of set up a classic distro (media player, retro gaming..), what did you do with it? I'm just curious about interesting hacks and concepts :)

discussedbefore 9y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14856277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14856277

darienbc 9y ago

https://www.wiforms.com https://www.wiforms.com

Rjevski 9y ago
This is actually a neat idea, though the design of the form page could've been better.

roryisok 9y ago

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

root_node 9y ago

Built a Media Player using Kodi. Then Netflix happened.

stadeschuldt 9y ago

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

ecesena 9y ago
Do you have details on the solar panel and the rest of the infrastructure? (or a blog post?)

kejaed 9y ago

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww1q248jc7Q https://imgur.com/a/E4lbU https://imgur.com/a/E4lbU https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNotes.md https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNote...

trobanga 9y ago

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

cjcampbell 9y ago

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.

astoellis 9y ago

I wrote a few bash scripts with my pi and a remote NodeJS server to capture timelapse photos of my jalapeno plant growing and compiled them with ffmpeg. Here's my writeup if anyone's interested, and a few gifs of the results. writeup: https://blog.codelemur.com/pepper-pics/ https://blog.codelemur.com/pepper-pics/ results: (desktop users) https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/SelfishVillainousAustrianpinscher https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/SelfishVillainousAustrianpins... (mobile users) https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SelfishVillainousAustrianpinscher-size_restricted.gif https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SelfishVillainousAustrianpinscher-...

p0d 9y ago

A heating system, thermostat, for my shed. I hooked up a temperature sensor and relay to control a 500w heater in my shed office. A Python script checks the temperature every five minutes using cron and turns the heater off/on. I also keep graphs. I only work in the shed on Thursdays/Fridays which are reflected in my graphs. http://shed.chrismatchett.co.uk http://shed.chrismatchett.co.uk

Odenwaelder 9y ago

I built a smart home system with FHEM and HomeMatic for my second flat. I was able to turn on the heating, set and monitor the temperature. This saved my lots of energy costs compared to a timer-based system, as well as many cold nights because the heating didn't turn on at the right time. Neither the flat, nor the smart home system still exist. Once I move into a new flat, I'll build another one.

interatx 9y ago

I've probably abused it too much but its shocking how much it load it can bare. * Ebook Server * Ad Block via DNS * Router (needed me to get an expensive wifi receiver) over VPN * Mini build system to publish my blog * Auto-backs up my NAS box to S3 / Glacier (and then test-restore the latest backup) every month * Auto-emails me based on a wide variety cron-jobs that check the weather, stock market, rss feeds, etc * Grabs by RSS feeds and bookmarks * Offline cache for some stuff * Downloads videos for later reference * Automatically texts me when I've not written anything worthwhile (in code or blog) for a while [edit] * Using it to teach python / basic programming