What does /g/ use their Pi for?

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>>56437066
I use it as an inconvenient, ineffective and inefficient Chrome Cast substitute.

>>56437066
I just use it as a desktop PC

>>56437133
What environment?

>>56437066

Adblocker and a daily custom script checking marketprices of vinyl.

>>56437139
In my living room.

>>56437066
webserver

Have a pi2 I loaded retroarch on for my daughter (age 6) to play around on. She loves it, and has really gotten into playing Pokemon Leaf Green on it.

Have a Pi1 Model B+ that I'm currently using as a iTunes streaming box in my workshop.

Have a Pi Zero that I literally have no use for. Had OSMC loaded on it until it stopped working for no apparent reason. Have thought about the Radio Throwee project I've seen tossed around, but there's also this I thought about doing for fun:

http://www.instructables.com/id/20-Portable-Raspberry-Pi-Game-Console/

Rpis aren't bad for hobby project boards, and they've a huge community following. Just don't overload them-they're designed to do one thing. Also, media projects are probably a bust.

>>56437066
I connected mine to a thermal imaging camera and mechanical arm. Once the pi detects heat over 24°c, it will trigger the arm to press down on a buzzer. The buzzer will then alert me of the shift in temperature, allowing me to quickly re-adjust the thermostat in my apartment. Therefore ensuring, I'll always stay nice a cool. It works great, but unfortunately there is a bug when the temperature reaches below 19°c, the pi reads it as if it's 44°c... Causing the mechanical arm to enter an uncontrollable fit which can only be stopped by a hard system reset. But, luckily that doesn't happen all that often.

>>56437125
Do you use OpenELEC?

Used it to libreboot my x200. Thats about it.

>>56437066
pihole to replace all ads with pictures of cute cats.

openvpn so i can access my network from the outside securely

owncloud to sync some stuff from my pc to phone

>>56437272
i uh...ok

>>56437288
Yes. Yes I do.

>>56437304
o and a webserver as a kind of cdn to show some vacation photos to my family.

Manage the encryption of some nuclear warheads schematics

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trying right now to find a good way to stream music from the pi to my android phone wherever i am

it's tough, but only because i'm stupid

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>>56437066
Web server, with my portfolio and Nextcloud on a 1TB HDD.
And few more things.

>>56437310
I get that reaction quite a lot for some reason. It's honestly a pretty good system if you think about it.. Once I patch it up, and create a stable test model, I'm considering crowd funding the project. I could also make it alert your phone in case you're away from home!

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>>56437066
Just for network storage

>>56437066
I set up a torrent/samba server that I also use for backups

...on my Mac Mini G4. My Pi just sits in a box.

I just run Weechat in a screen on it atm. I have some projects in mind for it but desu I'll probably just make it a Minecraft server or something.

>>56437334
Why do you say it's inconvenient, ineffective and inefficient?
My father use it daily on his media center (not a raspi) and it's very convenient.

>>56437379
Is Nextcloud good? I've been running owncloud for a few years now and thinking about switching.

>>56437439
it's basically the same thing, more up to date.

>>56437414
Because it's slow, clunky and power compared to a HDMI dongle.

>>56437380
if this was a real thing which i doubt it is, wouldnt it make more sense to use the pi gpio pins or something and wire a buzzer directly to it or use a speaker or something,

>>56437466
power hungry***

>>56437449
Sounds like a good thing, what kind of webserver are you using? apache is pretty slow on my Rpi 2b, is nginx better?

>>56437466
Chromecast gets pretty hot even when not streaming - I'd be surprised if its power usage was less than a pi.

>>56437486
always use nginx, especially on low-memory systems. it's faster and it's not even hard to configure

>>56437467
That sounds more than applicable for the consumer edition thb... In my case, I had an arm lying around that wasn't getting any good use, also the arm is half the fun!

>>56437554
is this a legit thing, post a picture

>>56437272
Hello Rube Goldberg, how's death treating you?

I use one as a bartop arcade cabinet (using an old iCade cabinet I had lying around and a 10.1 inch screen).

I use the other to interact with my Apple //e. I either use it for connecting to BSSes (running tcpser on my Pi), browsing the internet (using my Pi as a WiFi bridge, since I have an Uthernet II card which provides connectivity), or just using it as a dumb terminal.

Looking for a new project at the moment.

>>56437156
>>56437139
kek

I keep it on my table and prag about it on /g/

>>56437379
How's your Orange pi? Just ordered a bunch, I gotta resell some in my 3rd world country and keep one for myself.

MicroCenter has Pi Zeros for $1 today.

>>56439243
It was harder to install because some image didn't work. And it heat more.
I recevied it last week

>>56437066

LAMP/MEAN server for testing code because sometimes I'm too lazy to run a VM or a Container and don't want it locally.

>>56437066
Nothing, I'm a rational being and my Pi is irrational

Collecting dust

I used to have Kodi on mine but I have to reinstall the OS every 5-6 reboot because the memory card get corrupt.

Now when I plug it in the CPU make a loud strident sound.

I don't use it anymore.

Mumble server for my internet friends

>>56439839
>the CPU make a loud strident sound.
how is that even possible

used mine in a prototype setup for customer validation. never head back of it.

>>56437066
is this a new general?

>>56437066
I made a bot with ruby and python + openCV (for captcha) that gets in real time the posts from the 1st page of r9k and post them on everything on the first page of /b/

I have many pis:
Three Pi3 running OSMC for media streaming from my server attached to different TVs in the house.
Another Pi3 with a touchscreen and a breakout board in a nice case that I use for automated testing of PCBs I design after I build them before I ship to customers.
I have two OG pi Model B that were recently retired.
I have just picked up a pi Zero that I'm going to use to emulate various USB devices in USB gadget mode.

>>56438820

Your first project is a much cooler version of what I'm doing.

I loaded made mine into an emulator using retropie. Whenever I babysit my younger family members now, we have something to do together.

I'm trying to reinstall my orange pi.
My shitty cheap HTMI TV crop the bottom, and I can't see the last line of the bash (even if i "move the image" in the tv setting to the max). I don't reinstall my OS everyday, so I don't know what it's asked by heart.

It's literally a "die and retry" bash.

Plus it's on azerty keyboard (i'm french), but it's configured as qwerty.

owncloud server

>>56437066
> raspberry pi 3
> full size sd

Kys

>>56440068
Get a good case and/or controller for it. Try to make it feel more like whatever you're trying to emulate.

Retropi with 2 chinese $2 snes controllers.
Works fine.

>>56440374
You need a full-sized one if you're working with a typical, cheap SD card writer, Anon.

>>56440374
It's obviously an adapter.

>>56440516
PS3 controllers are good but the six axis bluetooth drivers can't run with the regular one meaning if you want to use a bluetooth keyboard or mouse you have to disable you ps3 controller

Host my personal, barebones site. Saves me the $5 a month for a VPS.

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>>56438820
Here's my Apple //e connected to the Internet by using my Raspberry Pi as a WiFi bridge.

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>>56442757

Are you fucking serious?

>>56442800
Yep. I have an Uthernet II card installed which provides the Ethernet compatibility. I'm using the Contiki Web browser (there's also an IRC client and telnetd).

The commands used were:
sudo apt-get install bridge-utils
sudo brctl addbr br0
sudo brctl addif br0 wlan0 eth0

(Using Raspbian Jessie)

I want to make a wireless solar powered pi hole/pivpn for shits and giggles.

For more serious stuff I would like to make a garage door alarm/detector of sorts.

>>56439839
What is strident
CPUs arent mechanicql where is the noice coming from

>>56437272
That is hilarious. And a good use of a pi too.

I use mine as a personal Git server, and, when neccessary, a public Git server too. Hosted on a Raspberry Pi Zero using Gogs.

You can use them as gadgets too, such as HID mice, keyboards, webcams, midi input etc.
I just hook mine up as ethernet, and I only need one microUSB cable. On the machine, I share the machine's internet connection.

When at home, plug in ethernet and power it on. Accessible to every machine in the house.

Remote & scheduled Wake on LAN server so my desktop can heat my room with Folding@Home on cold mornings. Also MiniDLNA and mumble.

>>56437359
Try SubSonic or some fork of it. I use LibreSonic on a VPS.

I use my pi to send serial USB commands to my arduino-controlled homebrew CNC. The CNC is shit because I handbuilt it all, but the electronics works like a dream and I don't have to use autistic G-code, I can just use my own image-to-instructions python program, then send all the instructions via serial python. Probably saved myself a few hundred choosing to write my own programs and use a pi + arduino, rather than buy real stuff.

Home made ambilight on my main tv.

>>56437155
>OpenELEC
adblocker how?

>>56437272
why not just make the PI control the thermestat or be the thermastat. 2-3 small relays will work

>>56437357
kek

>>56439996
so your the dick.

should any powerbank will work with it?
im planning on getting a solar powered powerbank to power it

and hid it my friends place. stealing his wifi

packet sniffing

I wanted use mine to make an ambilight, but realized it will be a clunky cable spaghetti, so I didn't.

>>56446600
no, you need one that can output 2a at 5v

>>56439293
>Available for In-Store Pickup Only.
tfw no store in my state

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>>56442757
Fucking hipsters

>>56447482
Don't encourage him, he'll just post it again and again.

>>56447379
Mine's far enough away that I'd piss out $4 in gas just to get there and back, and it's 1x per customer.

>>56446509
>>56438024
>>56437310
Nice ima/g/ination..

>>56442757
saved

>>56447505
Hey, that isn't my dumb terminal.

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made this thing

Apache server, and router (with VPN)

>>56448272
What is it and what do you play on it?

>>56448288
battery-powered rp model b running retropie. played everything up to snes/genesis/mame, ran a shitty linux desktop, and functioned as a portable composite-in monitor until i fried it like a dumbass.

Has anyone experimented with using the Pi Zero as an offline cold storage wallet for cryptocurrency?

>>56437066
hentai@home

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>>56437125
I have a receipt printer a grocery store gave me because they were replacing them.
I use it with my pi as a ticker

Right now it works with sms and twitter.

>>56437125
Just FYI, Chrome browser has an extension "Cast for Education" that allows you to turn any browser into a cast-able device.

>>56437066
i using as a seed box for torrent with an 2"5 harddrive and a script for bind openvpn to transmission-daemon.
Can acces in web to your torrent page with settings and nice views.

i work since 2 years ( it's a B+) and has always working good =)

Distributed password cracking cluster

>>56439839
>16GB SD bug.

Use a 16GB or smaller card and everything works fine. Still no fix...

>>56449791
i use a micro SD 32Gb ( samsung ) work fine

>>56439686
>Nothing, I'm a rational being and my Pi is irrational

Cute

Dust collector. It's pretty good at it.

>>56449815
It'll hose itself some day.

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I have an idea with a pi.
>I bought a IBM Thinkpad 600, 3$.
>Dont work, so i dissamble it.
>Find a monitor laptop 30x30, buy a display, make it hdmi.
>Make a keyboard.
>Put the pi in the empty laptop.
>Conect all.

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Trying to make it into an emulation machine, but the three main OS's for this have an integral flaw
Recalbox just doesn't want to recognize PS3 controllers properly
RetroPie has numerous issues that I might be able to work out if I dedicated a lot of time into doing so
Lakka is the best of the bunch since it's the most streamlined, but it uses that trash system of only scanning and adding ROMs verified by the database. On top of that, some N64 games like Mario Party 3 will have no video on Glide64 unless I turn on full FPS, to which it then flickers to hell and back

>>56448272
Where did you get that screen and for how much?

Nothing to be honest.

If I still had the other two I would legit put them in a small cluster to practice some networking shit and play with the new Docker swarm features.

But now the RPi I bought for $20 people want fucking $45 for lmao. No way I'm buying another now.

>>56437066
3 all with monitors on htem - diff desktop situations
1 for film 1 is a server
all used, all the time

>>56437066
Fileserver / media player. KODI takes commands from TV remote through HDMI cable, it runs Transmission for torrents, Sabnzbd for newsboards, and picks up programs automatically with Sickbeard. Files are shared on the local network with Samba.

Also it's in a really nice case.

>>56437156
kek

>>56437066
Fake wireless access point.

I connected mine to the back of my TV in my common area to stream anime and movies from my server without having to grab my laptop or portable hard drive.

>>56446490
pihole

>>56452500
how many harddrives do you have connected to your "fileserver"?

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>>56437156
congrats

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>be me
>Acquire government contract
>Buy thousand dollars worth of parts
>Arrow gifts 1 free pi per $100 spent
>Split order into 10 orders
>Acquire 10 pi's
>Wat do

>>56453604
Also worth mentioning I'm a first year computer science major, and don't known shit
Also they are pi 3 model B's
I want to do something that will give me some experience, not just install retropi 10 times

>>56453266
Did you actually do this? Did you install it somewhere near an open wifi spot? Are you stealing Facebook accounts with it?
Sounds like fun

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PiLaptop, all I did was install raspian and osmc and plug it in to an atrix lapdock but it just werks

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>>56453645
glue them to your forehead then jump off a building. you'll gather some valuable data for future attempts

>>56453665
the more important question is has he found a sure fire way to bypass hsts

>>56453692
no drivers needed for the screen?

Want one there are some neat things I could do.
Maybe multiple if I need to.

Wanna do a Pihole so no ads on my phone for YouTube and shit.
And a server for TS or other things that would need me to have a VPS.

>>56442800
>>56447482
>>56448187
I don't get it.

does anyone here have gotten pihole to work on arch?

test

>>56453738
Nope, only thing I had to do was activate the module for the speakers

>>56453816
sonofabitch goddammit

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Always on deluge working with sonarr to snatch TV shows, connected to VPN with deluge killswitch 24/7. Used to have sabnzbd, couchpotato and sonarr run off of this but I got a more powerful computer and migrated those over.

>>56453755
why the holy hell would you use arch

>>56453692
dare you to take it to starbucks and see how quickly the cops arrive

>>56453992
if it had less cables it wouldn't be so bad. I couldn't be fucked to split the power/usb cable into separate ends.

Octopi+pihole for my famiry who doesn't understand computers but knows adblock exists

>>56453412
A couple of USB drives, about 2TB total. It's been running fine for nearly a year now, I think.

...okay I've reinstalled a couple of times. But that's no problem; if you backup the SD card with your setup and keep media on the HDDs then it takes about half an hour to reinstall and a couple of hours for it to rescan its library in the background.

>>56442757
I know it's useless, but kudos for you man. Dat nostalgia

>>56453692
go public and see how minutes police arrives

I used it as a video player when I travel, but that seems pointless now so I'm looking for a new use, how well do pi work for minecraft server (with hamachi?

>>56449147
What it prints out fucking tweets and SMS? Is it hooked up with its own number or forwards from your cell?

>>56455354
Thanks, Anon. I'm trying to experiment with different stuff on the //e. I was so lucky to get it for free. Truly a surviving piece of history.

My plan was to make about 10-20 MEGA accounts (500GB~1TB of storage), mount them all with MegaFuse, mount encrypted EncFS folders within each, and finally chain it all together in one easily writable location with unionfs-fuse.

This to provide storage for automated downloading using sabnzbd, sickrage and couchpotato -- downloading locally and then uploading them into my MEGA cluster, and finally sharing it all via samba and NFS for network playback.

The dream ended early when I realized EncFS won't work with it.

>>56451225
That thinkpad looks so good, I want to buy one......

I just use mine as a Linux cloud server for backup during months of important, private files.

>>56453604
Build a 10 Pi cluster and run a distributed system on them like John the ripper or docker or drupal or some other distributed shit

>>56437066
It's in my car as a music player and GPS

>>56437066
anyone have any recommendations for a gbit rpi equivalent?
I already have an odroid x, but it's limited to 10/100, and if I have a full 1gbit connection I don't want to be knee capped

>>56455354
Dude, that's hardly useless.
You show that to any tech professional and regardless of your actual skill level, they'll give you respect.

Small FM transmitter using PiFmRds, considering modding it so it doesn't splatter all over the spectrum and I want to also make it more powerful

>>56457489
Sadly my dosent work.
Motherboard and ram problems.
I always wanted to build a laptop.
If someone wants to throw ideas, thanks.

Tabley

I used mine for a little bit after I first got it. Now I do nothing with it. Until I can start buying robotics kits and have the time for them I'm not buying any more.

I'm loading it up with roms right now for emulation station

>>56446509
>>56437272
Place the pi behind a thermostat so you can raise the temperature to melt physical backups

>>56451225
>Windows ME
Oh god it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts

>>56451225
That would be neat as fuck.

Also, turn the disc tray in to a little drawer for memory cards and sticks, pens, pencils, etc.
Most small writing utensils should fit fine in a disc space. Maybe even a little square notepad.

I remember seeing a disc drive space being turned in to a drawer a while back.
The person that did it had installed a... card reader internally I think it was, some spare slot.
Then just removed the drive entirely and gutted it for the opening mechanism.


>>56453692
>atrix lapdock
Shit dude, nice idea.
I was wondering how the fuck you managed it until I googled it and seen it was a hardware-specific thing.

I wonder if there would be an easy way to do it with any laptop though.
In reality, it is just trying to figure out how the display operates, what keyboard grid you have and what hyper exotic touchpad you have that nobody in existence has ever heard about seemingly.
Touchpads are fucking awful man. Barely any fucking standards at all with the damn things.

How hard would it be to get a Pi to wanter my plants based on soil humidity?
I have a pi but never used it.
My programming knowledge is limited though

>>56437066
I use my RPi to pick up women.

>>56459538
Easy enough if you do the code learning part.
Or fine another project that has done it.

I know people have used their Pi for aquaponics farms to measure all kinds of stats about the farm and tweet it to their phone, deal with problems automatically as best as it can and alert if their is a critical failure. (like the water system failed, or power went out and on battery)

>>56440061
>Another Pi3 with a touchscreen and a breakout board in a nice case that I use for automated testing of PCBs I design after I build them before I ship to customers.
Post screenshots and elaborate.

I have a rpi3 being used for kodi while my rpi1 collects dust. I occasionally use it to restream things with ffmpeg. I am sure I will find more uses in the future I'm just extremely busy at the moment.

I have an array of 1024 Pi Zeros. I'm currently working on writing AI software that will run on it and once it works I plan to make it my girlfriend.

>>56437066
>10/100
>being useful for anything
no thanks
maybe if they made one that wasn't shit and was full gbit they might be useful.

Mine is accumulating dust, but im planning to use it as a pic programmer.

Do you reckon the RPi 4 will be able to handle 4K?

out of curiosity, has anyone tested the new XBone Bluetooth controllers with a Pi? I know Microsoft went full jew in terms of Windows 10 exclusive support but wondering if people on linux have found a way around that yet

>>56459960
>10/100
>Using USB
wew lads should have gotten a orangepi

>>56460184
Will an OrangePi work better as a DNS server? Or is the RaspPi 3 good enough?

>>56460184
have you used the orange pi?
I want something full gbit that doesn't use a lot of power, and is full gbit since I have google fiber.

>>56460082
I can't even get the controller to work with windows or even mac os

>>56437066
Kali Linux and Pi-rate radio

>>56437066
I originally got it as a way to make the TV left in our apartment an entertainment center for movies, shows, and games for myself and my roommates, but none of them showed any interest to use it and used their laptops instead. I've taken it out of the living room since. I now have it as a torrentbox with samba.

I'd do something else with it, but I can't think of any projects I can use it for that would benefit me. I should install pi-hole to it to stop ads and other shit.

Planning to use it as a PiHole + comfy bedroom retro console