What is a Raspberry PI usefull for? Could anybody share experiences

>>55460978
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It is bad as a server because running HDDs isn't optimal with it.

I use it as wlan bridge to get my signal to the other side of the house and it also sends an email to my phone if someone rings my door bell.
I want to extend on some of the smarthome meme what all the big companies are pushing now but I haven't found the right usages and tools yet.

>>55461124
Do you use two wifi cards for the wlan bridge?

Retropie and a low energy Minecraft server are what I use it for.

>>55461137
It is LAN-connected to the router but setting it up with two dongls and completely wireless shouldn't be much of a problem either.
Plenty of guides out there.

>>55461155
Is there an easier way to configure the emulator controls?
i get the main menu setup and then the moment you load a game it's 'haha fuck your config i got my own' and then it's a game of guess the keys. It's quite ridiculous.

>>55460978
I use mine for the following
>seedbox
>mumble server
>teamspeak server (getting paid £30 a year to host, covers the price of running a pi 24/7)
>git server
>SFTP

>>55461186
I was asking because I've used my laptop as a wireless wlan bridge before, with only one wifi adapter, and a "virtual" one, that comes with Windows 7. I was wondering if the same could be done with a RasPi.

>>55461155
Retropie sounds interesting.
Is it any good?
Does it give a better feeling than normal PC animation?

>>55461155

>minecraft server

How is this working out? Last time I ran a Minecraft server (~4years ago) it was a total resource hog.

I use it to stream media (Tv-shows, movies, twitch, news etc.) and i run ad blocker in the background (Pi-hole) and it works great.
Also works nice for retro gaming with retropie if you're in to that.

>>55460978
this is a cool project
http://samy.pl/proxygambit/

brother uses it to emulate games.

It runs PS1 games fine btw. Was playing Mortal Kombat 4 and Crash Team racing without any problems.

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>>55460978
I got a 16x2 LCD and use it to output various shit such as DPS data in vidya gaymes.
It was just an excuse to finally try using that GPIO out and see if I could do anything with it.

>>55461155

i use mine for seti@home. gets about 400/500 credit per day. i know it's shit but it lets me participate in the project while not turning my house into an oven and not costing me anything in KWH

if you intend to do anything CPU-intensive, please, please get a radiator and a fan. i know they're supposed to be radless and fanless, but the best case scenario is you'll just burn your micro SD card in a month and the worst case scenario is you lose your house if it catches on fire. mine is staying at around 60 degrees celsius with a radiator and noctua 5V fan at max speed. with 20 degrees ambient.

>>minecraft server

with 1gb of RAM ? good luck with that...

>>55461248
Retropie is pretty good a little confusing sometimes but i over clocked my pi and wacked a third part wired ps3 controller in and its decent, just like emulating on an android phone really

>>55461495
>i know they're supposed to be radless and fanless,
I thought they didn‘t add one just to keep it cheaper.
I saw a video where someone made a very good passive cooling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AYGnw6MwFM
Definitely worth a watch I think if someone wants to run the thing with more load for a longer time.

>>55461626
i bought some neat heatsinks for it, took a 5V laptop fan and use that to cool it

>NAS
>gitlab
>web hosting for fiddling around

>>55460978
shove it up your vagina

web crawler bot

>>55460978

I want to use my raspberry pi for port scanning.

My problem is it doesn't fucking work.

It boots with my SD card but it just doesn't recognize my keyboard. What the fuck is up with that? I don't use a hub or anything, just a regular USB 40mA keyboard

>>55461802
https://petewarden.com/2010/04/05/how-i-got-sued-by-facebook/

>>55462031
Why do you need a keyboard ? Just ssh into it

Just picked up 5 of them for £10 at a car boot, what should I use them for? thinking of reselling 4 of them to cover the cost

>>55462097
Beowulf

>>55462038
I was thinking more of a shitpost archiever or something like that.
Just play around with 4chan api for example. Archieve your favorite board, text only.

>>55462060
Depending on the distribution he used the SSH server needs to be enabled first, which needs a keyboard. (I think I had to do this when I installed Raspbian the last time)

Look up Raspberry Pi Tor Relay

>>55460978
As an Infoscreen running FullPageOS

>>55462157

It's a pi zero with Rasperry Pi Debian

>>55462194
Thx, i didn't know about that os

>>55462157
You obviously never installed raspbian.

You tell it to install SSH by default, you do this when you configure the hostname and password anyway. Then you put the SD card into the Pi and it'll grab the SSH server along with the other packages it installs.

What device/OS would work best if I want to:
>block all Microsoft's IPs
>Have a maintained list of blocked government/university IPs
>Will allow me to do DNS redirection
>have two gigabit ports

Make a waifubot that jerks your beef

Just wondering: would it be possible to install Kali Tools (katoolin) on Raspbian? If so, creating a facebook phishing page with S.E.T. and walking around with the Pi powered on in my backpack with a "Free WiFi" open access point would be a very easy way to get some login info, right? Maybe even using a GSM module to actually give fuckers free wifi and do some XSS.
Any of you has experience powering the Pi through a power bank or something like that to give me and estimate on average uptime?

Can't wait to try that, but unfortunatelly my SD card died on me, now I'll have to wait for my chink sharks to arrive. And probably buy a new power bank that gives out at least 2.5A.

>>55461292
>tfw want to setup pi-hole
>can't configure DHCP on a router level
what's the point in living

>>55460978
I use my PI for a portable emulator unoriginal I know but it's pretty cool IMO.

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>>55460978
I used mine for librebooting my thinkpads. The GPIO pins can be used to write data directly to a BIOS chip.

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>>55467139

>>55467139
>>55467524
that's actually pretty fucking cool

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>>55467586
Thanks. Here is my libre x200. The x200 has the BIOS chip right under the palm rest, which made it very easy to flash.

Lenovo decided to design the t400 and t500 so that you have to remove every screw in the laptop along with the heatsink to get to their BIOS chips. This is the t400 motherboard:
>>55467524

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I record the inside/outside temperature and humidity in my room. Currently pushing the data to plotly to graph in real time but am looking into storing the data in a database.

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>>55467623
Also, I decided to fix that design flaw with my rotary tool.

>>55467632
check to see if there is a carbon monoxide leak in your room, because there is literally no reason to waste your time with that shit

>>55464630
any router with ddwrt on it, I would think

>>55467632
I had a time series project and could have blown it away with a unique dataset like this. Good on you.

>>55467788
I kekd.

>>55467636
I just took mine completely apart (and cleaned it) then soldered a 0.1 inch header via some short pieces of ethernet wires to make it accessible with minimal disassembly on mine.

Hooray for Libreboot T400!

>>55468109
That sounds interesting, do you have any pictures?

I just use it for coursework really, but I like it and keep my secret journal on there.

>>55461219
how did you go about charging people, i got 150 a month on azure and no idea what to do with it

>>55461219
>teamspeak server
>ARM
what form of sorcery is this?

>>55468130
I don't remember... I'll check.
Probably do.

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>>55468355
>>55468130
I think I've got others, but this one was still on the camera from when I was troubleshooting why it seemed to work but wouldn't flash properly.

+1 internet if you immediately see why it didn't work.

And to make it more relevant (sort of) to the thread, I used a beaglebone black to do the flashing. Not a Pi, but the same idea.

>>55468519
So did you leave that connected? After the first flash you are able to perform software flashes, right?

hidden seedbox in workplace

>>55468535
Yep.

I initially installed it several months ago, then covered the pins with a bit of tape to keep them from shorting on the case, then had to pull the keyboard off and break out the beagle again becuase I'd bricked it with a bad flash (bad config options) via software, which is exactly why I left in in.

>>55468568
Cool. With the case mod I did I just need to remove the palm rest and keyboard to get to the chip, and it is open to the clip now. I barely had to remove any metal, and it did not affect the structural integrity in any noticeable way.

I am still working on librebooting the t400, I keep getting a black screen, but when I flash back to the nonfree bios everything displays fine.

I am waiting on the clip for the 4mb chip on my t500 as well, but I modified the case while I had it disassembled so that I don't have to take it apart again.

>>55467139
>>55467524
>>55467623
I need help with this. I have a x200 and a x200t. Can you share the guides you used?

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>>55468620
Here is the guide I used:

https://github.com/bibanon/Coreboot-ThinkPads/wiki/X200-X201-Hardware-Flashing-with-Raspeberry-Pi

Used a raspberry pi to control the hvac system of a company.

>>55468630
thank you. Did you have to use a beagle bone black or did the RPi work?

>>55468642
Were you trying to destroy their data tapes

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>>55468648
I used a raspberry pi. Everything is basically the same except you use a different number for the spidev.

Also, I found that it was a lot easier to ssh into the pi than to use a monitor and keyboard plugged into the pi. There were a lot less cables to deal with and a smaller chance of bumping the bios clip.

>>55468616
Is the screen >= 1440x900?
If so, it's probably the dual link issue described here:
https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/gm45_lcd.html

I've got the 1440x900 screen, so I get a black screen as well, but after tinkering with it and hearing the beep (which I think they removed from the default) in grub.cfg, I realized it was working and I was able to blindly type something in, and eventually replaced the built in grub.cfg with one customized with my kernel commnand line, and got it to boot with out being able to see anything from GRUB.

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>>55468711
That could be it, I have not checked the screen resolution, I got my t400 free from work and I have not used it with the nonfree BIOS. I will try that once I get back to working on that, thanks.

>>55468752
No problem, bruh.
A quick way to test if it is working if there's no beep, is just mash the C a bunch of times to get a command line, press enter a couple of times to clear the extra C's you typed then type 'halt' then hit enter and see if it shuts off again. If so, you know it's working.

It's also possible to set up EHCI debug and have access to the output via a serial console, but I haven't tried it yet so I don't know how easy or hard it is to get working.

It's probably also possible to get output via external VGA after reconfiguring and rebuilding, but I haven't tested it because I haven't bothered fixing the issue that bricked mine and required the use of that header and restoring the previous version.

>>55468825
I just remembered that I did try outputting to VGA and I did not get any output.

>>55468691
nice libreboot sticker!

I'm scared to flash my x200t chip. I have to resolver a new one on..

>>55460978
>Is it worth the price?
Easily.

>>55460978
many people use it as a server to make a vpn or others uses like this, that is underusing the capacity of the board
>the main advantage of the raspberry is its graphical processing power, apart from the fact that it's running linux it's the only plus of the raspberry
the raspberry pi or banana pi is also used to learn embedded linux for students or childs

>the cards itself is worth its price
BUT depending on what your project is i would rather recomend a MBED board or PSoC 5LP board both are much cheaper and have great capacity (you can even consider an arduino depending on your project but it is rarely worth the price)
>imo 90% of the raspberry actually sold are underused and can be replaced by cheaper board

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I have installed on my RPi a DNS-Server with bind9. I have also include a block-list which I compile the syntax for the bind9. At the moment he blocks more than 33k domains which are ad-domains, melicious-domains and malware-domains. It's very cool and helpful gadget.

I use mine as a videorecorder and webserver for small, low bandwidth stuff.

The DVB-T dongle cost me 17 Euros and pulls too much power from the USB port, so I had to get a 12 Euro USB hub with external power for it. I got the drivers from linuxtv.org and installed vdr and vdradmin. I'm currently not streaming from the RasPi, but pulling off the recorded files to edit out advertisement breaks on my PC before watching stuff.

>>55460978
STICK IT UP YOUR ASS

HOME AUTOMATION

>>55462109
+1

>>55468278
not him but a google search worked well
https://eltechs.com/run-teamspeak-3-server-on-raspberry-pi/

I made mine into a synthesizer/sampler without any external libs. Just C and Lisp from the ground up.

Learned a shitload about how sound is represented digitally and synthesis in general.

>>55460978
Personal cloud, of course
https://arkos.io/what-is-arkos/
(not using exactly that, but some of the applications they use)

Why use it for a cloud/server/etc purposes when you can just buy an old PC for next to nothing?

>>55472306
lower power consumption and it's only £30 to begin with, costs less than £5 to run it on full load for a year

>>55472306
A pi makes zero noise and uses like 1000 times less power than an old desktop.

>>55472306
What they said, you need to check your full TCO.

Obviously when you need more power, Pi is not your best fit. But for IO (eg. owncloud) it's preety sweet, and has lots of support for noobs.

>>55460978
I've heard it emulates a Raspberry Pi quite well

>>55472306
Well, if you want to pay for the power usage, go for it big boi

Learning assembly
rootkit migration
Server Hosting

and yeah it's worth the money if you're really into computers and development. A lot of educational uses behind it.

I waited half of a fucking year for my $9 CHIP pc and it's coming by next week, I got a tracking number and I've been following it.

Really curious to see what I can do with it. I'm going to load it up hardcore with as many server applications as possible.

It's going to be running torrents, ftp server, have an old webcam connected to it taking security pictures whenever it catches somebody, lurking my favorite irc channels 24/7, and more stuff that I can't immediately think of.

>>55460978
I got one with modified PiFM script that I use to broadcast anti-government propaganda.
I hooked it up to bus, and used the bus's antenna for increasing the range.
It's been six months now, And they haven't figured it out.

>>55461310
Do you get internet for free?

>>55465025
http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-pi-zero-power
In my experience a 10000 mAh power bank , was enough for a whole day.

Choosing what to wear.
I used http://met.no API to see what's the weather would be like, and sorted my clothes into warm,cold and hot.
And since I do my laundry every week, I made it so it doesn't pick the same cloth twice.
It shows the weather forecast and what I should wear on the LCD, Also it acts as a wake up alarm.

>>55460978
Literally bought a few months ago and didnt touch it for a while.
I ended up just using as a proxy to block ads from my iphone.
As well as add a scheduled capture of my lounge using a ps3 eye toy I plugged in.

>>55468657
Too much Mr. Robot, huh :D

>>55472959
kek That sounds like fun.
What are you broadcasting and where in the bus did you hide it?

>>55472959
More info pls

>>55473539
>>55473571
>What are you broadcasting
As I said anti-government stuff.
Where I live things are really bad, innocent people are getting killed, because faction A is in conflict with faction B over power.
Mainly trolling both factions and calling them faggots, and other cuss words.
>where in the bus did you hide it?
Behind the radio, got it's power from there as well using modified car charger and hooked it up to the antenna as well.
The modified script play the message, change the frequency and plays it over again.
I sneaked into the bus garage, at night.
In hindsight, it's a nice anarchist project.
But it cost me a RPi which is very hard to get where I live.

>>55461219
with that money I could run 3 rpis and still have 3€ left.

>>55461495
could a rack of these fuckers give you a nice credit profit?

>>55473659
solidarity, brother

>>55473659
Where are you living?

>>55473807

Hmmmmm                                                                                                                                                                                              Iraq- Baghdad

>>55460978
I just bought a RPi 3 for retro emulation (mainly NES + SNES).

Can't fucking wait for monday to arrive.

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>>55462038
>data thats already available to hundreds of marketing firms
>yet facebook wont allow someone else who gathered that data themselves to make it public

>>55467524
Where did you buy the SOIC clip? Do you need a certain one for the x200?

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emulation is pretty nifty on it - i got a Pi 2 hooked to this old LCD with an HDMI to VGA adapter, and got the built-in speakers hooked to it via the 3.5mm jack on the Pi. It can do lightweight browsing including 720p video with very little issue with LXDE and Epiphany as the browser. No buyers remorse for me!

>>55461430
Whoa how did you get DPS from games? Are these games you played on the pi or on another machine?

>>55473840
Cheers anon. And good luck.

>>55460978
I have one as DNS and print server

I took one of these, a 128gb flash drive, a portable powered hub, and a couple of 360 controllers with me on holiday to play via the HDMI on the TVs in our hotel room.

Really nice little emulation box to mess around with on holiday downtime.

Kodi

/thread

>>55474026
A RPi3 can handle a few dreamcast games too anon.

I use my OC'd Pi3 in my arcade machine in a case with a mini fan and heat sinks in it.
Eventually I'll switch in a cheap PC, (when I get round to rebuilding the cabinet), but it does the job pretty well.

>>55460978
emulators and testing out scripts. or even just to use as an oversized flash drive. They're okay.

>>55473840
Thanks for this. The thought of a load of Iraqi cops driving around the city 24/7 trying to find this mystery man broadcasting anti-government propaganda just to find out it was a raspberry pi all along sounds amazing.

>>55477989
>driving around the city
If they had this commitment many people would be still alive.
They simply ignored it.

Very capable VOIP server. rpi2 will hold 20+ concurrent users just fine.

>>55475268
I got the clip on ebay. The clips seem to be fairly standardized.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/16pin/172175026898

or

http://www.ebay.com/itm/8pin/252415654805

>>55460978
I work in a school, and I've set one up as a classroom booking system. I used it as an Airplay receiver for a while, but replaced it with a Chromecast Audio.

Reminder that Raspberry Pi supports censorship.
Get one of the competitors.

>>55460978
For applications like image or audio processing

>>55481119
huh

>>55460978
If you doubt wether a RasPI worths or not its price, then dont even bother, you are too stupid to use it and would probably end up using it as a paperweight.

>>55460978
you can make shit with it (read: it's kind of like a massively overpowered arduino, although it's too slow to do most modern computing tasks at a respectable speed, even if you could use one as your main machine if you REALLY wanted to -- it'd be like using a machine from 2002 or so, much better in some ways, worse in others)

mine is gathering dust (it's been on for like 10 days now, and I can't remember why it turned off, the uptime should be longer) -- it's ostensibly a server, but I haven't actually accessed anything from it

if you have $35 and an idea of something you want to do with it, it's totally worth the price
it's pretty much fucking useless if you don't have an idea beforehand though

>>55460978
experimenting/personal projects/etc

>>55481772
Employed the infamous blocklist during gamergate and removed any criticism of said employment from their forums.

>>55481903
oh ok

>>55481903

good, ill make sure to buy 3 for everyone you dont buy

>>55460978
Since they're small and hard to notice, I'm considering setting one up at my business as an OpenVPN server. The main issue is dealing with the ports, but I'm trying to figure out a way to use UPNP, if possible. You could also use one to steal website credentials, if again, you hid it well enough.

>>55475846
You can just write plugin for your game that will send data somewhere and you can set server/api on a port that will recive data and send it on the screen through gpio.

>>55481999
>unironically supporting censorship

>>55473221
Thanks, I'll try that.

>>55468847
I think it's turned off by default, hence the mention of reconfiguring and rebuilding.

>>55482183
If I understand correctly, you want to set up a VPN server for your business? Is this your business or are you making a sort of "backdoor" into your employer's network?

>>55482998
Not making a backdoor just want a way to route my traffic

What is a good starter kit for the raspberry pi?

Or should I buy the accessories individually?

>>55483219
I think amazon has some good starter kits. Buying the parts individually may be less cost effective. It really depends what you have laying around your house.

RPi's are good where you need a computer with an OS for a project and don't want to spend a lot of money on it

I'm building a smart mirror right now where I have a piece of two-way mirrored acryllic sitting in front of a computer monitor so that the monitor is able to give a Heads Up Display right on the mirror. I'm planning on using a ras-pi with Chromium in Kiosk mode so that it can get information like Weather and Calendar events and display them.

I have a co-worker who has a homebrew CCTV setup at his house with the pi controlling the cameras and making them accessible from the internet