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Fun Things to do with a Raspberry Pi (2012)
- networked 13y agoAnother thing to do with a Raspberry Pi is to colocate it: http://raspberrycolocation.com/ http://raspberrycolocation.com/, https://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi/ https://www.edis.at/en/server/colocation/austria/raspberrypi.... Caveat: the delivery time, at least with PC Extreme, is long (ETA = 90 days); I've been waiting for my RasPi to come online since July. Also note that when I signed up for colocation it was offered for free [1]. The CPU performance on the Pi will not compare favorably to even the humblest x86-based VPS but I rather like the idea of getting to play with a dedicated ARM server at a remote location. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946940
- TobbenTM 13y agoAlso: FM Radio transmitter. (Which will also be my next project) :)
- codfrantic 13y agoI automatically read your name as 'TobbenFM' ^_^
- rokusho 13y agoI am in the middle of constructing my own piMAME powered arcade cabinet. I've wanted one for years and building it has been one of the most fun things I've done.
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- SSilver2k2 13y agoAs the maintainer of the PiMAME distro, Thanks! If you have any questions we have an active forum at http://pimame.org http://pimame.org -Shea
- uio3 13y agoMight as well be titled "25 things to do with a computer", since very few are anything to do with the Raspberry Pi itself.
- eliasmacpherson 13y agohow about "25 things to do with a $25 computer"?
- marcosdumay 13y agoWell, the Pi is just a computer. A computer that costs $35, and has a built in GPIO. But just a computer.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoBecause the Pi actually isn't a general purpose computer, it contains a TEE (trusted execution enviroment) and you're not trusted.
- ChikkaChiChi 13y ago25 things to do with a low-cost ARM based computer that has seen widespread community adoption doesn't really have the same ring to it.
- bnycum 13y agoIf you are interested in the Pi also check out the BeagleBone. I love how easy everything with the Pi was. I'm hoping to do more home automation with either another Pi or a BeagleBone. As for now my Pi is controlling our detached garage, and has done a nice job surviving a Louisiana summer. Shameless plug: http://itsbrent.net/2013/03/hacking-my-garage-with-a-raspberry-pi/ http://itsbrent.net/2013/03/hacking-my-garage-with-a-raspber...
- nwh 13y agoIf you are interested in the BeagleBone also check out the Cubieboard. It's a more powerful Pi, essentially. Dual core, 1GB of RAM, SATA. http://cubieboard.org/ http://cubieboard.org/
- jboynyc 13y agoAnother nice option is the Hackberry. https://www.miniand.com/products/Hackberry%20A10%20Developer%20Board https://www.miniand.com/products/Hackberry%20A10%20Developer...
- nwh 13y agoThe Cubie eeks out the Hackberry in the latest revision, if you're interested in CPU power. Allwinner A20 rather than A10.
- bri3d 13y agoAll of the Allwinner boards have mostly-closed Mali GPUs and closed but partially reverse-engineered CedarX VPUs. Outside of Android the Mali GPUs are a bit of a bear to get working at all, much less use for anything useful. For headless tasks I agree that Cubie/Hackberry are faster dollar-for-dollar than the Pi, but the Pi's VideoCore GPU, while still blob-encumbered, at least provides a documented interface with working drivers for both the "traditional" X11 stack and Android, as well as a real OpenMAX video decoding interface.
- tocomment 13y agoThe link for number 9, the robotic arm seems to be down. Does anyone know where I might find that story?
- gtz58 13y agoIt's called robotic arm edge. I'll let you duckduckgo it.
- tocomment 13y agoThanks but I am more interested in the writeup regarding how to connect it to a raspberry pi, (and possibly how far it can throw a frisbee...)
- tesseractive 13y agoI've read Instructables and such for modding it with potentiometers to give control feedback on the movement, hooking it up to an Arduino for control, things like that. I haven't personally seen a version of this for the Pi, but the interesting part is getting it talking to a CPU controller at all, and it ought to be a pretty short leap from an Arduino to a Pi. It's definitely not plug and play if you want to do anything interesting with it, though.
- timdiggerm 13y agoTrying to verb it, huh?
- reustle 13y agoI'm currently mounting two rPi boards to two external hard drives. I'll leave one at home and one at work and run BitTorrent Sync on them to create my own little distributed / decentralized Dropbox. Would a blog post when I'm done be interesting?
- thebiglebrewski 13y agoAbsolutely!
- themstheones 13y agoya
- StavrosK 13y agoHow well does BTSync work?
- reustle 13y agoI've been really happy sofar. I haven't finished this project build quite yet but I've been using BTSync installed on my nexus 4 auto-syncing my camera folder to my laptop so every time I take a picture I get a notification saying that a new JPG has been added to the folder (and auto downloads obviously). In this blog post it sounds like I'll be writing, I'll report on sync speeds using 3 nodes and things like that.
- nwh 13y agoHaven't had an issue with it thus far. It's very good on iOS, and running on a few different devices I've got lying around.
- 0X1A 13y agoWhy not just set up ownCloud?
- reustle 13y agoI'll be considering other software like that once it's set up. Using BTSync works with my current workflow so that's what I'm shooting for in v1
- gutsy 13y agoI really need to get myself a Raspberry Pi. It seems like me and my kids could have a lot of fun with it. I'm actually almost considering getting one, a cheap monitor/keyboard/mouse and setting it up for the kids to use as their own computer...seems like it could be a cheap investment to get them to learn how to use Linux.
- stigi 13y agoI just recently setup a bit torrent sync server on my rPi. So nice to sync with LAN speed as soon as I wake my MacBook as the data is already on the Pi. \o/
- kayoone 13y agothe rPI can hardly reach 100Mbits over LAN. Its nice and has its uses but i wouldnt use it for file related stuff inside a network, just too slow.
- Stwerner 13y agoHow would one go about creating a quick/cheap custom enclosure for their Pi and a touchscreen? I have both, but I'm completely lost looking into 3d printing for it, and most things I've found have been pretty expensive. Are there any quick prototyping tools or materials I could use out there, or even services/startups to get something made?
- mentos 13y agoI got a raspberry pi to see if I could replace a noisy htpc with Raspbmc. It worked a lot better than I anticipated but I found that I was sacrificing speed for the 'cool' factor of running it on a Pi so I ended up going back to a PC. Still looking for a project to combine my Rift and Pi.
- cabbeer 13y agoHas anyone tried to setup ownclod on their pi? How is the performance?
- chatman 13y agoBeing able to run Windows 3.x sounds like the coolest among the list.
- ztnewman 13y agoI've been trying to find a good way to power my pi with a solar panel, but haven't found many suitable options. Anyone?
- simcop2387 13y agoNot sure what you consider a good way, but getting a decent sized panel, and use it to charge a lead acid battery would be the way i'd expect. Then run the pi off of a 12v usb adapter (usually find them for cars). That'll give you a number of advantages, it'd let you have a battery to deal with cloudy periods where you won't have enough juice to run the pi, and let you run for a while after the sun goes down. if you then want to add hardware to let you shut off when the panel voltage drops for too long it'd also be possible with just a diode before the battery (also not that hard to get) or with a sense line on the charging hardware you use. take a look at stuff like [1], that should work fine for the pi, as long as you aren't trying to power huge amounts more. [1]http://www.amazon.com/Instapark%C2%AE-Black-Mono-crystalline-Charge-Controller/dp/B005LR9IOG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1379695831&sr=8-2&keywords=12v+solar+charger http://www.amazon.com/Instapark%C2%AE-Black-Mono-crystalline...
- cmyr 13y ago"Regardless of the ethics involved, try out this security penetration testing project." ...
- matmann2001 13y agoI used mine to make an ambient backlight for my TV. The rPi drives individual LEDs in a strip by processing the video signal directly from my cable box.
- peatmoss 13y agoThis sounds like a really interesting project. Have you written it up anywhere?
- JshWright 13y agoSome time soonish I plan on picking up a Pi and a GPS module that I can wire in to the GPIO pins, and have a Stratum 1 NTP server on my LAN.
- TinFoilThrow123 13y agoI use a Pi as an air-gapped system for stuff that I really want to be secure. Master keypair was generated on the Pi (which has a hardware RNG in the SoC), and the only way I get data on/off it is to sneakernet it. The small size of the device makes physical security much easier as well.
- lolrandom 13y agoYou better regenerate your keys then if you used that RNG.
- contingencies 13y agoWargames-style: reverse engineer oldschool RS422/RS485 multi-drop 2 or 4-wire command & control protocols for physical security / surveillance / access control systems. Plug in a pi via http://www.bb-elec.com/Products/USB-Connectivity/USB-to-Serial-Adapters/In-line-USB-to-Serial-Converters.aspx http://www.bb-elec.com/Products/USB-Connectivity/USB-to-Seri... to an arbitrary cable (maybe with servo-automated sensing/tapping of cable cores for speed/precision), and have it detect channels, passively map devices and grant full control of the network. Jumpstart with http://wiki.wireshark.org/FieldbusProtocolFamily http://wiki.wireshark.org/FieldbusProtocolFamily dissectors and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socketcan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socketcan library. Probably loads of firmware bugs on that era of devices...
- antocv 13y agoThe best thing I did with a Raspberry PI was to setup openvpn on it to connect to my server where I have minidlna running and a lot of other services, then give them to my friends and hook up to their Smart TVs and routers. Now all my friends can view my music and family pictures on their TVs, with basically no setup, just pushing buttons on the remote - the Raspberry Pis openvpn connects the UPnP/DLNA at the openvpn server to anyone that is connected, and so my friends can share their family pictures with each other in a very secure way - no third party, its all going over the vpn and they can use a web-interface to add pictures to the server directly, or let the rasppi mount their images on their NAS for those who have that. This one was a bit tricky to setup, since minidlna needed to index remote content.