What would you do with a $5 raspi zero?

Maybe I'll make it into a sport coat

>>57565514
mine bitcoin

Make an alarm that notifies me via an Android app when people are near my desk at work while I'm not there (little laser switch). Would probably progress to connecting cameras. Then I'd build the same setup for my apartment, but with more cameras and laser switches.

>>57565514
build a missile guidance system

>>57565514
Poisontap

>>57565514
Install Solus.

>1GHz single core ARM
Do these things emulate SNES well?
I feel like building a retropie box and getting a decent bluetooth controller instead of spending $60 on that overrated mini NES that doesn't even have my favorite game.

im using my pi zero for a homebridge server, it acts a third party homekit enabled device so i can yell at siri to turn lights on and off

>>57565666
yes, they handle SNES perfectly fine, same goes for GBA. its retard tier easy to set up retropie on it as well. you load the IMG onto the SD card and boot it up and its done.

I'd love to learn how to use these for robotics.

>>57565706
Get an arduino and play around with it for sensors/actuators/robotics while you shitpost on /g/ from your Pi, and then work on integrating those same projects with the Pi so you can use things like web interfaces and GUI's for them (which you can do with arduinos currently, just much, much more difficultly).

>>57565691
Can I just copy roms to the microSD card, or do I have to connect it to wifi and use an ftp server?

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>>57565666
Get the orange pi pc 2 for 20 dollars, or one of the mini orange pis around 10 dollars.

They're quad core and much more powerful.

Too bad they arent $5 in the USA
more like $25-$30

>>57565514
Sell it for $20.

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>>57565877
Best $30 doorstop I've ever bought

>>57566007
>>57565877
How does it do with emulation?

>>57565514
turn it into a web server

>>57565514
got one as a security cam in my room, except since I never really go out, it's just there doing nothing.

>>57566016
Install Android and it'll perform great.
The pi pc 2 has the mali m450 mp6 gpu so it's got decent horsepower for something so cheap, and the cpu is just a quad core a52 ARM iirc.
It does have hardware support for shit like 4k h265/h264 and htpc stuff though.

Easily more worth it than a pi zero.

>>57565890
>Too bad they arent $5 in the USA
but they are
https://www.adafruit.com/products/2885

>>57565877
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05/chinese-arm-vendor-left-developer-backdoor-in-kernel-for-android-pi-devices/

>>57566356
Is this board actually filled with nothing but fucking retards?

Explain, in your own words, why this would dissuade someone from buying the orange pi

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>>57565691
Except they don't most good SNES games use onboard chips on the carts and they emulate that like dog shit.

Good like playing even Mario Kart.

>>57566356
That's nice but how does it affect me?

It's not like I am going to use Orange Pis as my main computer. I'm not even going to install much on it.

Also, just install a different build.

>>57565514
>Cheap ass Serial Interface/Programer board.
>Centralized Home Authentication Server
>Room Mood Lighting and Music Player
>Cheap AF Sensor Grid.
>Weather Monitoring Station


Basically anything with home automation.

>>57566631
>emulate that like dog shit.
You mean they run better than on the real hardware?

Because superfx SNES games run like shit on an SNES.

>>57566308
>$10 with shipping at least

>>57565514
wipe my ass and buy an odroid

>>57565604
Can't tell if B8 or legitimately retarded...

Home music server which also can be listened to through internet via your phone

>>57566676
so what? obviously they won't ship it for free
and $10 is still much less than $25-30

>>57566761
it's not $5

>>57566676
got one for a dollar at microcenter.

>>57565827
On the card

>>57566686
It was just a joke, maybe you are the one softly retarded

>>57566776
wait until you discover that you'll also have to buy at least a sd card and a power supply to get it running
if you are already that butt hurt about having to pay for shipping

mfw I get two Raspi Zeros from work.
mfw I have no idea what to do with them.
Guess they'll go in the drawer with my normal Raspis, sensehat, and my microbit.

Was considering setting one up for emulation but eh. Wouldn't particularly want to unless I was able to somehow make it portable.

my raspi B+ is running 24/7 headless deluge torrent daemon and downloading to a 3TB hard disk,
all set up with RSS feeds to autofetch new episodes of shows/anime I'm watching.

Pretty sure a Zero would be enough.

>>57565877
Literary waste of power consumption, space and money. You don't need the performance then why?

>>57567454
Downclock it.

>>57566815
>No spare mSD card
> No extra phone/tablet/generic usb adapter
I'm sure someone could find a way to afford it.

>>57567430
No Ethernet on a Zero.

>>57567741
so what, a wifi dongle is 3$

>>57567752
then you'll also need an USB hub

>>57567770
good point.

>>57567778
I'm still mad at them for not releasing a $7.50 pi zero+
with integrated wifi and two full size USB ports
would have been so much more versatile

>no octa-core FX-8350
DROPPED
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>>57566631
Snes roms run better on emulators

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>>57565666

Put it on ebay for $10

>>57565637
/thread

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>>57565514
hanging it off my desk lamp and let it collect weather data from around and inside the house.

>>57566356
lmao who care

>>57566799
jokes aren't allowed on the internet anymore, you can only be stupid or trolling (or both).

>>57569202
What about jokes from 9gag?

>>57569218
He covered stupid already.

>>57565514
I plan on buying one in the future and use it as a portable computer ( im going to hollow out a old hard cover book and use it as a case, with a tiny monitor and a keyboard ).
Also, PoisonTap.

What I do with my OG RPI, put it in a draw for 3-4 years and forget about it

>>57565877
Does it handle Yoshi's Island SNES and PS1 games at full speed?

>>57569286
Kek

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> $5

these shits go for >$30 around here, not kidding.

no, not the full pie, the one you burgers can get for 5.
it's insane.
there's no way I gonna pay that much for that one.

>>57565637
IoT dildo

>>57569615
where do you live?
pimoroni has pretty affordable international shipping
https://shop.pimoroni.com/pages/shipping-information
and sells them for 4£

>>57566356
That's what you get for not installing gentoo.

>>57569615
Consider yourself lucky, over here the cheapest you can find them on the internet is $100. Its cheaper to just import it, but it takes a long ass time to arrive because customs hold it for forever. And you have the chance of being wrongly taxed for another $60.

>>57565637
>letting anyone get physical access to you're laptop.
Anyone who does this doesnt have a password on it anyways or it is 123456.

>>57565514
DNS/ssh tunneling.

>>57569805
How do I tunnel ssh through DNS and why do I need this?

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Backdoor the hell out of everybody.

https://samy.pl/poisontap/

>>57567414
Use them as comfy web server or nas if you don't have epic ideas

use it to flash coreboot on your thinkpad

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>>57565514
I'd hook it to a VT510 and--
oh wait. I already did that.

build a cluster that can maybe barely out-perform a system from ten years ago

>>57565514
A war kitteh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM

>>57570518
>a cluster
>with no network interfaces

>>57565576
Underrated post

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>>57565514
>What would you do with a $5 raspi zero?

Flat panel kitchen PC, mounted to the wall of my kitchen next to my fridge.

Recipes galore. I cook like a monster so I'm always referencing a tablet when I cook. I'd probably use a pi3, though. Zero is only useful for small devices and/or being a russian spy.

>>57568756
like what? temperature humidity what other kind of data could you collect from inside the house?

>>57571220
for now yes.
Trying to add a 433Mhz transmitter now to control remote wall plugs via smartphone

>>57565514
dust collector

>>57565706
What >>57565753 said.

Arduinos are much better for robotic stuff, beginner and advanced.

Pi's are still a fun way to get introduced to super basic servers though, which is what I used mine for.

>>57565514
Id just look at and hope one day i can use it in conversation.
"Hey guys what do you think about the rassberry pi", said a group of ppl.
"Hey i have one", said the guy walking by.

>>57565627
You just got yourself a job at Raytheon, good job

>>57565514
I don't know but I somewhat regret not buying it for 0.99 USD.

>>57565514
i thought they were discontinued?

>>57565619
Do you live in the Deus Ex universe?

>>57565514
Use it for Fencing so whenever someone gets a touch it makes a noise.

>>57570480
Can you elaborate? This looks interesting.

>>57569615
spotted the aussie cuck

Console yourself by jerking it to how tolerant and progressive your country is. But don't sprain your wrist patting your righteous selves on the back.

>>57566007
take the $3.00 sticker off your keyboard, you lazy fuck

>>57569790
this desu

>>57575081

As if the $3.00 sticker is the only issue with that photo. Using a laptop box as a desk. Nasty residue on enter and shift. Edge of mattress in shot. Smells like basement from here

>>57569615

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>>57565514
I've actually got an old Raspberry pi 2 sitting around collecting dust
At first I was thinking of making it into a little games console, but I wouldnt really use it.
My current idea is to connect it to mains and a little LCD display, and load onto it a genetic algorithm teaching a little bot to walk or something.
Keep it running for ages, I can always see its progress, and yeh, thats pretty much it

>>57565514
Pay 60 bucks for peripherals only to realize there are much better and more cost efficient alternatives to rPi and it's just a meme brand. Now I have a $65 dust collector.

>>57565514
Solder it on my penis to attract young geeky girls!

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>>57570480
wtf did you try to make this hole with

>>57575389
>already spent the money on the product
>a product that, even if inferior, has endless possibilities as to how you can use it
>lets it collect dust instead of doing something with it

>>57565514
insert in pooper OP, you know you wanna do it

I got mine for 1$ at my local MC and have done nothing with it

>>57565877
Can it run 2hu

>>57574194
>he doesn't know about coworkers

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>>57565514
Make a device that orders a pizza when you take your pants off and sit down at your computer to browse 4chan.

>>57571326
That's what 99% of pi owners do, can confirm.

I have three. And ideas. But no time.

>>57576162
Like one of those Amazon dash buttons, but actually useful?

>>57576198
Exactly! Maybe it could be grunt-triggered.

>>57576192
I was going to make mine into a seed box, but after what happened, maybe I'll just make it a backup server. I still have a RPi 1, and the only use for it is for old games, but I'd rather buy a newer one so I can play PlayStation games.

>>57576212
Why not just have a script on your computer, remove the middle man.

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>>57575294
How well does nginx run on armbian? might get the OPi plus 2 and move a small site over to it.

>>57565514
Put it in an altoids box

>>57576301
Opi 3 is coming out soon, but any reason why you're not considering the opi pc 2?
It's got less ram, but faster SD r/w performance and a more powerful SoC while being roughly half the price.

Also has a built in gigalan controller

>>57576324
Hey, that was my idea, too.

>>57576364
waiting on reviews for the H5, but if the Opi3's got the H5 and 2gb of ram and the gigalan controller, i'll wait

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I'd throw that useless shit away.

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>>57570573
with enough autism anything is possible

honestly a minimal pizero cluster sounds aesthetically delicious

>>57565514
>no wifi
dropped

>>57565514
1. install netBSD on it
2. put it in a toaster
3. use it to control the toaster

>>57576488
>Your toaster is now a part of a botnet

>>57565514
Install gentoo on it

>>57576516
God that would take forever.

>>57576301
Why not just run Debian?

>>57576707
cause you gotta do some crazy hackjob to get x64 distros running on OPis

>>57576723
Why would you run an x64 distro?

>>57565514
install gentoo

>>57576786
I didn't mean running x64 itself i meant running anything that isn't specifically designed for the OPi like armbian.
Instructions for getting debian compiled for arm to run on an Opi are complete shit cause the chinks on their forums can't explain themselves in english for shit, and most people giving instructions contradict themselves as well.

>>57576861
http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342

>>57576983
>installing their backdoored shit
yeah no thanks

>no rj45

Whats the point

>>57571247
are there guides for interesting home automation with these?

>>57577039
if it was actually 5USD then it would be more acceptable

>>57576983
None of those images work anymore, project has been abandoned. If you got an OPi you just get armbian and get done with it.

>>57574573
I'll sprain whatever I want cunt, I have free healthcare.

>>57577100
I used the Debian mini image. It works.

>>57565514
get about 10 of them and put them around my city as advertless radio stations to my music taste

>>57576162
but the botnet wants you to starve

>>57567877
You mean two USB-C ports. Then we would be in business.

>>57565576
kek fuck off linus

>>57565514
bought one
it's doing nothing

mostly got it to have one rather than do shit with it (really, it lacks ports and is slow as shit, and is really sensitive to power fluctuations like unplugging usb devices -- the pi2 has that last issue too, but it's like 2x as fast with single-core performance, has ports, can do ps1 games with no major issue in retroarch, etc)

>>57565514
Burn it . Raspberry Pi contains unavoidable proprietary bootloader code. That makes it 100% useless. In fact, I got a raise the other day and ordered a bulk shipment of 2.000 just to stomp on.

>>57579492
2 isn't much of a statement. Try 20 or 200. Heck, get 2,000 of them and stomp on them like the French do their wine.

>>57565666
Get a Raspberry Pi 3, it has a quad core ARM SoC clocked at 1.2GHz, make sure you get mini heatsinks and a fan for it though, they tend to get hot

But the damn things can emulate PS1, N64, and PSP games as well

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/the-5-poisontap-quickly-completely-hijacks-even-a-locked-computers-internet/?ncid=rss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbWYUFgLhSU

this.

just this.