Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry? I've had a Raspberry Pi gathering dust for a long time, and I would like to do something with it, preferably involving an e-paper display, but I can't find an interesting project. They always seem to be the same. I would love some creative ideas. Also, welcome are educational ideas for girls (I have two). |
As far as "girl" projects...I think maybe it's more of an age thing rather than a gender thing (both boys and girls would dig working with a Pi) - I think the age matters more because there could be a learning curve involved
do you know why does the fire scanner uses a computer voice? they use text message that are read or something like that?
- piVPN
The piVPN story is interesting. I am currently stationed outside my home country. Using the financial apps (bank apps, wallet apps) outside the country are restricted hence I needed a ip within the country. No major VPN provider provide IPs for my country. piVPN has been great in that sense to access the contents from my country.
Everything on it except for atuin is running as docker containers. I think either the drive or the usb connector I’m using is kinda flakey. So I try to keep everything as portable as possible. I can backup and move all of the containers elsewhere pretty easily if i have to.
Running a personal cloud like this is great. Tailscale makes the networking part a piece of cake. And a few containers through docker-compose isn’t super hard either.
I think I got lucky getting a pi 4 on release pretty cheap. But the arm64 support is great, and I think some of the containers I’m using only worked because of that. Not sure if the other pis support that or not
All the apps im running are in containers, so my setup runs on anything I can get docker running on.
I did not want to have it powered on all the time, so I wrote a simple udev rule that shutdowns the Pi when the printer is turned off.
Before I moved to home assistant I also automated my lights using my Pi: https://github.com/dylanowen/nanoleaf
- Media center
- Transmission seedbox
- Zoneminder (security camera monitoring)
- Pihole
- Grafana dashboard of temperatures of other Pis
A few years ago I built a project that used wifi to count the number of devices in a given area.
You could set up a basic Linux distro on it, put video game emulators on it so they can experience all the old LucasArts classics.
To block ads when web browsing, I find adblockers more than adequate. Eg Brave Browser on Android, or the Ublock Origin addon on desktop.
The main reason I wanted Pihole was to block ads in other situations - eg Android apps. In particular, I wanted to watch a documentary on a free video app, but the number of video ads made it intolerable.
I found Pihole did not effectively block ads in Android apps, or ads in videos. I think they must serve the ads from the same server as their content, therefore rendering DNS blocking useless.
(I will go to extreme lengths to avoid watching video ads. In this case, I actually screen recorded the entire documentary on my phone, with the ads. I could then watch it later on, but skipping all the ads)
Pigallery2 Syncthing for 3 phones 2 laptops
But eventually we gave into the subscription TV services and so took the CRTs to the recycling center (even though they still worked) and then the raspberry's went back into the drawer.
it earns credits by being online, and allows me to in turn measure other probes around the world to check for traceroutes and other networking stats.
They should be moved from archlinuxarm to Raspbian/whatever with v6 support ending last year.
I remember seeing some folks use them to create smart mirrors too