post raspberry pi diys

>>1097281

You go first

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>>1097281

>this is now a work in progress thread

Pic related, my GamePi 3S

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http://pidashcam.blogspot.com/

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here's my retropie build. I have another pi that is just a torrent machine.

got 2 right now, 1 is a pihole which is adblock for your router, so any device on your network is ad free. https://pi-hole.net/

the other one I have is just a file server, nothing really special about it, does torrents and SFTP.

Pihole is the shit. I adapted it to run on a debian vm on my server instead of taking up a pi, since it didn't need external gpio. Works quite well, and only frustrates me once in a while with blocked sites.

>>1097281
I just bought a pi and I'm thinking of creating a streamable audio player of my own home music that isn't run with shitty ads every 20 min. Anyone have any ideas for implementing? otherwise i'm just gonna hack the fuck around.

>>1098150

you've seriously never heard of Kodi?
try to get v.16 coz it's needed for some advanced plugins, tho v.15 is also great. simplest way is to download either openelec or libreelec. and the simplest way to download those is using berryboot, coz it's kid simple to use.

>>1097665
Well done mate. Any hickups along the way?

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my motorola lapdock + pi
not much of a build but a handy little thing to have.

>>1097425
I don't understand wtf is going on here

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>>1097281
Munition Guidance system.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23774/raspberry-pi-ukrainian-weapon-system/

>>1097665
How big is that?

>>1098362

64-node "supercomputer".
Probably used for research or education.

>>1098198
I just wish I would have printed the button graphics and glued it to the plexi and mdf before I drilled the button holes in the mdf.

>>1098428
bartop size, 20x20x30 freedom units

>>1098150
Just add this to your computers hosts file to remove any ads on spotify:
0.0.0.0 pubads.g.doublecklick.net
0.0.0.0 securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0 www.googletagservices.com
0.0.0.0 gads.pubmatic.com
0.0.0.0 ads.pubmatic.com
0.0.0.0 spclient.wg.spotify.com

>>1098242
How long does that battery power it?

>>1098902
It looks simple and clean but the battery system is a little janky at the moment.

The lapdock has a battery separate from the little blue one. The lapdocks battery only lasts 3 hours with the pi plugged in, but the little blue one could power the pi for 10 hours. The lapdock itself can power the pi by backflowing power over standard USB, but neither the blue battery nor lapdock provide enough amps to power the pi. Their combined amperage is enough however. I'm pretty sure the lapdock would be damaged if it tried to pull the full amps the pi needs, so if the blue battery ever dies my lapdock is trashed. Like I said, janky.

>>1098606
Any particular tutorials online for this? I've been considering taking apart my 3d printed case and making one of these.

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I was wondering if anyone could help me out, I am planning to build a retropie console within a larger case which could contain a Pi, Hard Drive etc and have an on off switch. I was looking at this https://www.scan.co.uk/products/silverstone-pt13b-petit-thin-mini-itx-computer-chassis-black-with-vertical-holder-vesa
but im unsure whether I could use the usbs, and button with the GPIO pins.

Has anyone built anything like this? Any Advice?

>>1098606
blueprints for the case???


also how much for the buttons?

>>1097654
Soon...
https://www.etsy.com/listing/465456116/pigrrl-zero-plus-case-only-3d-printed?ga_order=price_asc&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=pigrrl%20zero&ref=sr_gallery_9
>this case arrives tomorrow with most of the Adafruit parts
>gamepad PCBs Friday
>waiting on Pi Zero and switches from London, volume pot from Hong Kong
Dis gonna be good.

>>1102432
Can these PiBoys or whatever you call them do anything a modified psp can't? Not bashing the idea I'm just curious if one would be worth building when I already have a modded psp.

>>1102432
>>1102566
Always wanted to build one, so out of curiosity and because I never had a pi before, I chose to do this as my first project. Never really compared it to a psp...
All the versions I saw had a lame 480x240 or similar display resolution, so I chose to go a different way.
The iPhone 4 LCD (960x640) without digitizer and glass is almost the size of the original frame cut-out,
Other than that, I'm going to use it as onionpi or pihole, pretty standard

>>1102432
I bought these from adafruit
https://www.adafruit.com/products/3101
No gamepad PCB, took too long to deliver

>>1102720
Are there connectors for that display available? It's pretty hard to find small, non-low-res screens with AV/HDMI in actually.
Also be aware that the performance of a Pi Zero will worsen with increased resolution. At 320x240 it can still emulate psx at ~40fps, not sure what happens at higher res.

>>1102736
There is only one Ive found.

https://hackaday.io/project/364-mipi-dsi-display-shieldhdmi-adapter

http://creotech.pl/en/produkt/mipi-dsi-display-shieldhdmi-adapter-2/

Works with iPhone 4/s, LG e980 (and some HTC LCDs if you get the latest fw)

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>>1102176
Building a few of these for Christmas, running out of time so my quick solution is to use a micro USB power button, see pic, a 3D printed NES case, and I'll just stack the hard drive under everything.

When I have more time I'll design a NES-pi case that uses actual NES buttons for power and reset/shutdown and print an enclosure for the hard drive that looks like a NES cartridge that can be removed easily to connect to a PC for adding roms.

>>1102746
Thanks anon, bookmarked it. I've just been using a 6$ SPI display until now. Its decent for the price and I didnt wanna spend so much. But if I ever want to make a really nice piece, I know where to look now!

>>1097665
Nice. Is that Link's Awakening on the side?

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wifi cambot

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OS: Debian
Software: RetroArch/EmulationStation

My very own emulation console for comfy weekends of nostalgia on the couch

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>>1103267

>>1102876
I already have one of these but I'm planning to make a case that will look decent sat under my TV and won't move when playing with wired controllers. Hoping that I either make a case with a built in power button work or add one to a project case myself

>>1103267
That looks great man

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>>1103281
Thanks
I can play many games from various platforms like nes, snes, gameboy, atari, sega megadrive and ps1 on it

how to build pi doomsday device?

asking for a frend

>>1103104
Neat. I was thinking of making a robotic "servant" like that to do small physical shit at my place when I'm not around like turn off lights.

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>>1103537
computers for nuclear launch sites still use floppy disks. Maybe make a floppy with a Pi zero inside that'll hack their computer once it's inserted. lol

>>1097425
I did the math on this. i5 2500k has better performance per energy consumption. Something like 45x faster on one core for 25x the power. That was the original pi though, times may have changed.

>>1103554
>like turn off lights.
use a relay board

>>1103104
is the rc also controlled by the rpi?

>>1097659
Could this also work rpi zero? I know zero has rpi camera input.

>>1103623
the robot is controlled from a website hosted on the pi, I can access it via wifi

>>1103634
Oh interesting, do you have a link of said project?

>>1103634
give us the site so we can fuck with your robot dawg

>>1103579
From what I remember, the Pi 3 has ~6 times the Pi Ones power at double the consumption, but you might be able to save some by turning off wifi + bt.
Still Pi clusters are more for learning and practice than computation.

>>1103584
No access to wiring, not allowed to mess with it anyways since it's a rental apartment.

>>1103636
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/stream-video-from-the-raspberry-pi-camera-to-web-browsers-even-on-ios-and-android

this is a web based videostreamer, it installs a server in the RPi which hosts the website streaming the video

i modded it adding controls to move the robot from the client machine using AJAX
The motors are controlled from the GPIO (duh)

>>1103638
lel, site is hosted inside the robot which is off almost all the time, anyway, to access it from outside the LAN I would need to set up port forwarding in my router, which I was gonna do, but never got around to actually do it

This might be a really retarded question but.
Can one use multiple pi's as one unit? For more performance hungry tasks.

>>1103734
see
>>1097425

>>1103734
yes you can, stuff like that called "Cluster"

>>1103579
how do I make a cluster of i5s and how do I make an AI with it

>>1103737
Yes I saw that one but I wasn't sure if they all performed different tasks.
>>1103750
Okay do you have an example where a cluster might come in handy?

>>1104155
When you need to walk and chew gum at the same time

>>1104155
Most supercomputers are clusters which run simulations at big scales. The only reason to do this with a RbPi would be educational purposes so that you can use a supercomputer later and know how to program on it. Look up Little Fe project and you will see a cheap mini cluster for this exact purpose.

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>>1104155
>Okay do you have an example where a cluster might come in handy?

Anything highly computational intensive like math problems or crypto currencies. It use to be cheaper than some supercomputers but not anymore. Here's a custom board built for Pi Zero's that's meant to be a bit coin miner.

>>1097281
I use it as a tor node
Pic related
(Picture of an onion.jpg)

>>1097281
Awaiting my orange (!!!) pi zero.

Possible projects for me:
- Robot: car, six/eight legged shitter + cam/sensors, drone. Possibly need something faster for image processing.
- Home automation and similar stuff: OPZ for speech synthesis and recognition. Maybe I should get a RPi with Windows so I can use the speech api of Windows.
- Possibly use it for radio transmission. (I need to read up RF stuff anyway.) I might need a RPi for this though.
http://icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter

I already have a A20-OLinuXino-MICRO with a 2TB WD Red as a NAS. I should use that 160 i/o pins for something though.

Don't have pictures yet but I have a retro pie that only runs melee with gc adapter and controller. Fun to bring to motels/hotels that have crts

>>1097281
Very slowly building a couple of Java applications for home automation. So far I have a basic messenging daemon that is intended as a central point for raspberry pis and a yet-to-be-built android app to control.

>>1104223
Why didn't you get the OPi One? Except for the wifi it's clearly better and USB Wifi is $1.50.

And you have HDMI and better GPIO.

>>1103104
that's a sweet ass case. got any plans senpai?

>>1104393
fuck. wrong post.
mean for >>1103267

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>>1103267
Nice, I already built a lego NES and have a pi lying around. Good idea.

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What do you guys think about selling retropi's if i have people that would be interested.

How much would you sell for and what is the best way to approach the build? :)

>>1098362
Google Beowulf Cluster

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>>1097665
this is a good place to ask, i want to connect my retropie to an old CRT TV using the AV RCA cable, but after i plug everything in it doesnt work , works perfectly fine on a LCD tv but on my old tv it looks like pic related

>>1097281
Santa gave me a magazine in my stocking full of tech DIYs. They're all "buy a pi, here's some python code"

>>1104664
You have the wrong video output mode set. The LCD is obviously a multi mode TV.

What country was the CRT set sold in?

>>1104664
Use the first pi it had composite video out.

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>>1104288
>Home automation
>Java
What kind of retarded madman are you?

>>1104697

all the RasPis have composite. even the Zero if you solder on an RCA connector. the guy's problems probably comes from incompatibility between PAL and NTSC. he has to change his Raspi settings to match his old TV.

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Holy shit jew companies are only selling 1 pizero to each customer

Fucking gay at least I got free shipping

Can you just do multiple orders??

>>1104868
>PAL and NTSC

Also the wrong scan rate. Probably trying to run 1080.

>>1104288
Why not ape CANBUS?

>>1104939
>work
>home
>grandparents 1
>grandparents 2
>Parents
>gf's house
>PO box

How many more do you need?
Shit I do this with free samples all the time.

I have like 2kg of free coffee from ''Pact'' by doing this.
>sign up get £1 sample for 250g
>''refer'' parents
>they get £1 bag, and you get another
>rinse and repeat.

PS. I'm not jewish.

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>>1103104
Hey I'm working on a PI Robot too with my B+, got three more to wire up. But going to convert them all to PI Zeros later.

I really wanna free up my B+ for some voice controlled home automation.

>>1104691
>>1105023
Holy shit this thread is still alive, anyway I'm in Germany and the TV is most likely manufactured here as well (Medion).

What kind of settings should I change specifically?

>>1103267
Looks great man just one question tho, which pi did you use?

>>1103267
>>1105242
I too would like to know and Id also like to ask if you have a reference sheet or a guide for that lego case.

>>1104197
Flight simulation

I worked at nasa for years one of the reasons they still used concurrent computers was because of the immense amount of I/O traffic that had to be handled.

Turns out a single board system couldn't handle the load.

Perhaps a cluster could.

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>>1105242
That's the raspberry pi 3 model B

>>1105302
I bought the Lego from a spanish store which sells all kind of raspberry extras and stuff
They are original Lego bricks but if i would do it again i would use the manual and buy the bricks straight from Lego
If i find a pdf, i will let you know

>>1105602
Thanks anon just one more question though if you dont mind, can you post a picture of the side with the usb ports?

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>>1105623
Sure

>>1104939
I bought two from Microcenter for 99 cents each when that had a special going on. I bought one and had my gf buy me one.

>>1104427
Look on kickstarter (maybe indiegogo), some guy in a different country did it and got like 90k USD to do it. All off shelf parts, carbon fiber decal to wrap project boxes in, cut a few holes, and slap all the shit in. He didnt used retropi tho but one of the other ones that has the psp/ps3/ps4 looking ui.

>>1104427
There is an online company that does this already.

>>1098150
Mopidy works well

>>1105631
Thanks for that man i appreciate it

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>>1105652
No problem
Last weekend i beated Megaman 1 and 2 on this bad boy and i'm looking forward to the zelda games

>>1104427
>What do you guys think about selling retropi's if i have people that would be interested.

in my experience, RasPis are good for about 6 months to a year before they start screwing up. most likely suspect is the SD card being corrupted by whatever. re-flashing fixes it. (a lot of people wont notice coz they're constantly experimenting with new distros)

so, if you're gonna offer any kind of full package retropie/kodi/whatever distro, expect some pissed off customers asking for their money back.

So I bought a 7 inch capacitive touch screen on eBay for my project. I didn't realize how big it was.

I was originally going to make a little phone sized infrared point and shoot camera, but this screen is more like small tablet sized. Is there any other functionality I should add to my project to take advantage of the large screen?

Or should I just put it in the parts bin and run with a standard 2.8 inch screen?

>>1103665
wew unscrewing two screws will surely fuck you electrical installation beyond repair, better not mess with it anon.

>>1103665
>turn lamp off
>cut cable
>connect to relay
>leave lamp "on" forever
>control it from relay

Total noob here

I have an old Samsung note 2 and a raspberry pi. Can i connect the old screen of the note to the pi?

>>1105872
>Total noob here
you cant

>>1103104
bu-chan?

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portable emulation station with a pi zero

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Planning on building an emulation box using pic related, a Zero and the guts of a PSX to USB controller adaptor.

Should be pretty cool if I can pull it off.

Hello, /g/ here with a tip, if you want more power at the cost of a pi 3 get an odroid:

CPU of 2.0 GHZ with integrated heatsink.
2 GB RAM.
GPU of 700 MHz.
HDMI 2 40K 60 FPS.
h265 video compression.
microSD + eMMC for storage.
4 USB 2.0 + microUSB OTG.
40 pin UART.
Infrared(IR) Receiver.
10/100/1000 LAN.
ARM64 technology.

And if you buy the eMMC you get crazy speeds. The only drawback is not as much community as the raspberry for the moment.

>>1107105
That's an odroid c2 spec, sorry for not clarify.

Can you buy RPi Zeros in bulk? The price of this thing is kinda ridic.

Instead of using an MCU for a project like an Arduino why not just use a god damn RPZ for everything?

Good TI mcus cost like $4-5 per 1000, and the single price of a god damn 1ghz computer with 512mb of ram is 5 fuckin' dollars what am I missing here

>>1107088
Dont use a Zero, its underpowered. And you have space for a Pi3 or OrangePi.

>>1107127
No you cant. The price is so low because the Raspberry Pi Foundation is non-profit and a Zero costs 4.90 to make. Other companies need to make some profit. Arduinos are overpriced though, you can order the same from China for around $2-5.

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Last spring I made a wifi-webcam from a Pi so I could watch a bird hatch its chicks

>>1107127
>Instead of using an MCU for a project like an Arduino why not just use a god damn RPZ for everything?
Because operating systems are bulky and slow for real time applications. Doesn't make sense to use an OS when you can accomplish the same thing cheaper and faster using a RISC processor.

Plus, Atmegas are only a couple bucks each.

>>1098419
>this kills the Pi

>>1104155
>>1104197
The two real reasons for using tiny machines like this in a cluster are: to learn about building/managing a cluster; and just for the fun of it.

It's not really practical in any way.

That said, intel-atom clusters that have been built and sold for years now aren't practical either. They're just sold as dev & test clusters, and not for real work. They were rarely faster than a single high-end machine made the same year they were, even for highly parallel problems. And an atom is incredibly more powerful than what's in a pi.

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>>1104664
Notice how the jack has 4 little lines running around it? Each of those sections corresponds to ground and different connections. The cables that you buy from the store don't tell you how the cables are configured, and there's at least 2 or 3 common configurations for them. You just have the wrong cable type. Not sure how to find the right one besides through trial and error.

I wanted to connect my NES pi to a crt as well, but I finally gave up and just got a powered hdmi to composite converter (the white box in the back right corner). It produces a very light picture to the point that the details in some games are very hard to make out, but it works fine for the most part.

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>>1107816
Here's a pic of a game running. The picture is just fine in Sanic, but games with lots of light colors (Kirbys Dream Land 3 on snes and the battle screens of some of the earlier colorized pokemon games are some I can remember off the top of my head) can be really hard to make out what's going on on-screen.

>>1107822
You should look for TRRC to Component cables. There's really no need for an active converter here. Might have to change some things in boot.cfg or connect some jumper, I read about it too long ago.

>>1103561
jep, you just walk over there and say something like: "Hey Guise, im some kind of a complete Stranger/Civilian and would like to insert this Floppy in that secret Computer."

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>>1097281

Most of the crap ive done with my pis gets replaced by better hardware. My freenas box has jails and I use the pis as a sort of sandbox now before moving whatever python shit I make onto the freenas jail.

As far as emulation my desktop does a much smoother better experience.

I do however want to make a calander for the kitchen that I can check every day on my way out the door. Would also probably add some traffic thing where it tells me about the route to work that day in real time. Maybe some other stuff.

Is there a decent size touch screen out there? Would I be better off just using an old reclaimed lcd and a camera for some rigged motion controls?

To the people hosting websites/servers what do you guys put on them?

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>>1107966
YOU! STOP! DONT COPY THAT FLOPPY!

>>1105174
Try 576i.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL

This may help:
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/tags/config.txt/info

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Many people have made this here's my retro pi.

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>>1108488
More pics

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>>1108488

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>>1108488
Using a picture zero with 32 gig card have about 1200 games on it

>>1097281

>>1108491
That's pi zero.

Love RPis. Turned mine into a media center, a NAS, a seedbox, and a few other things.

Kinda funny how as soon as I was done I'd get bored and make something else.

>>1108491
That's pretty nifty, I like how it's portable and you can put the controller inside. The retropie plate that hides the guts looks cool too, good job.

Your usb hub has 5 slots, you can almost do an arcade perfect emulation of the X-Men brawler game from the 90s

how hard would be to turn a pi 3 into a pirate spotify that rips music remotely from youtube/soundcloud/bandcamp and then is accesible on cloud from a phone?

>>1098419
>using a non-realtime computer to do a realtime task
Microcontrollers are much cheaper nowadays anyway. I guess Russian hackers still cannot into AVR yet.

>>1109343
Not very hard at all. You could do it with python.

>>1104664

>>1104864
Please elaborate why its a bad idea.

>>1109355
>>1109343
what about a torrent proxy? Disguise a pi Zero as a phone charger, plug it in starbucks or a hotel and leave it there. Then connect to it from home.

The government had a similar idea to use Pies as disposable hacking devices. Add a battery and for less than $50 you have a disposable hacking unit. Just hide a bunch in an office or something.

>>1108441
I'm out of country so I can't work on my pi for now, but I bookmarked the pages ; thanks anon

>>1097281
>get pi
>get rtl-sdr
>get antenna tower
>get plastic box
???
enjoy listening to aliums

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ECG with Ras Pi 3.

I was able to connect to my pi zero as an ethernet gadget last night. I was even able to share an internet connection with my normal computer.

However this morning I could not connect to the pi anymore. It now shows up as a USB device where it was a network device before. How do I fix this?

>>1109611
If it helps I followed this instructions:
http://www.circuitbasics.com/raspberry-pi-zero-ethernet-gadget/

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Would it be possible to make something like this using a screen taken out of an old laptop and a raspberry pi zero?

>>1109661
no

>>1109661
i really want something similar to this.

>>1109694
>>1109755
I'm thinking that this might be possible. Maybe there would be some limitations because of the raspberry pi but still a simplified version could be possible.
I'll dig around and find possible solutions for this and maybe then I'll put it all together.

>>1109791

lots of people have done RasPi smart mirrors, so you have lots of the work already done for you. google it, like this:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-best-raspberry-pi-smart-mirror-projects-weve-seen-far/

>>1108327
It's already been done. You can now say goodbye to your precious "nuclear weapon," before it launches and lands in my back yard.

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>>1109661
Yes, if you can get the laptop screen to work and have some programing skill. You'd could even use an opensource Alexa kind home AI to give it some life, like mycroft for example.
https://mycroft.ai/

The hologram uses the "peppers ghost illusion." Not hard at all to replicate. Basically you just project an image on a reflective and transparent surface.

I have a waveshare 7 inch capcitive touch screen.

It says that it is compatible with rasbian right out of the box (just need to edit config.txt for screen reolution) since it's marked as a revision 2.1 version.

However, I still cannot get the touch to work though the screen displays fine. I tried installing a 3rd party driver that some say works from here:
https://github.com/derekhe/waveshare-7inch-touchscreen-driver

It doesn't work with this either.

Does anyone know how to make the touch feature work?

>>1110126
according to this sounds like you have the v1.1 firmware
http://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_HDMI_LCD_(B)#Working_with_Raspberry_Pi
I hate to say RTFM but here it is. It'll might help
www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_HDMI_LCD_(B)_(Firmware_Rev_1.1)_User_Maanual

>>1110135
Mine says 2.1 on the back. And I tried installing the 1.1 firmware. It bricks the pi, as in it won't even turn on after the install script reboots.

That 3rd party driver at least allows it to turn on and off, but it's just like having no driver which only allows the screen to be used for display.

>>1110156
I can also confirm that it's the pi that is causing the problems since I just plugged the touch screen into a windows 10 pc and I can control the computer through the screen like another trackpad.

This also confirms it's Rev2.1.

>>1109346
Who's to say it's not running a real-time kernel?

Pi zero is a complete chicom piece of shit.

>USB cable works 1 way to peripheral, but not the reverse
>power usb needs to be connected 30 degrees slanted left to power shit board

>>1110216
I seriously can't believe I tried to get one for 6 months now.

LITERALLY FUCKING USELESS right out of the box.

>>1110093
The real issue is writing an algorithmn that perfectly draws on to a plexiglas tube for a 180° hologram.

>>1110219
True. Got one last month finally and realized that it's hardly usable without adapters for everything, and with it's just as bulky as a Pi 3.

Had to use an arduino as UART bridge to even connect to Wifi, and its pretty slow too.
Better to invest in the chinese sbcs in my opinion.

>>1110229
You can connect to it over USB as an ethernet gadget since the USB port is connected directly to the CPU.

Of course that requires the USB port to actually function...

>>1110093
Used laptop screens don't cost a lot. Also there are universal lcd controller boards.
>>1110224
Reading this I highly doubt that making it a hologram is going a bit further than I expected to go. But if you want to make it easier to write an algorithm just simplify the situation (a lot). Remember a circle is just a polygon that can be simplified.

>>1098150
Don't listen to >>1098160
Get a RPI3, install libreelec. Its a tiny OS with only Kodi, latest version 17 (still not considered stable, but works fine).
Might also want to attach a monitor, so you get music and movies.

The built-in soundcard sucks, though. Consider buying a DAC for the rpi (i.e. hifiberry) and possibly a built-in amp as well.

>>1103665
Try a bricklet instead of a PI:
http://www.tinkerforge.com/en/doc/Hardware/Bricklets/Remote_Switch.html

A list of supported wall plugs is at the buttom.
> Buy wall socket
> Plug light into socket
> Use remote to control socket
> Use bricklet to control socket via web interface

>>1110435

you're a weird dude. you tell the guy to ignore my post then encourage him to do more-or-less exactly what i told him to do, with the exception of recommending v.17 (alpha) of Kodi which still has many serious bugs. what a twit.

>>1103561
Considering floppys are a magnetic disk you would have to make a type or convertor which would not fit in to floppy

Made a camera touchscreen GUI for a raspberry pi camera. It's for an infrared-sensitive NoIR camera. It's written in in Python using Kivy and the picamera modules.

What other features should I add?

I will be 3D printing a case for it as soon as a few parts come in.

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>>1110663
Pic related

>>1110216
Ugh, cheap as fuck and headless works well.

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>>1108491
I have those same planks too anon

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I'm mounting another arcade machine using retropie. We'll do the wiring next week but for now it works on a lcd tv.

>>1111512
Can I ask what those spacers are called that you used to fit the fan with? I've been looking for something similar for a while.

>>1111887
You can get brass spacers which are fancier and a little more robust. What's in the picture looks to be screws jammed into PTFE tubing.

>>1111889
Ahh cool, thanks. I was planning on breaking down an old desktop for the cpu fan later, brass would offer better durability too

>>1111898
Also keep in mind that brass spacers aren't flexible while PTFE tubing is. Important for matching fan mounting points with whatever you're screwing it onto.

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>>1111887
Sure, these are plastic straws, I've recycled from a spray bottle and a spray can, the bottom ones are DVD laser cannon assembly rubbers.

It's nothing fancy, I've just pushed a screw through the bottom and adjusted the straw with the raspi over them, then when I saw it frying with the heat I picked a fan and did the same with other straws and screws, only two were needed, it really stood firmly.

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>>1111941

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>>1107816
a converter sounds like a solid idea and I might use this option if all else fails, the rPi forums mention a type of cable that works , but i got one that looks just like ir for cheap , not the exact one , so I might have to get that one

>>1107892
I did look for one and I am using it pic related