If so, what do you use it for, what are some possibilities you would like to use it for? Im not a hardware type of guy so messing with wires and circuits are out of my league, but I am interested to learn more with Pi. Don't have one yet but when I get one id probably have to buy so many other chips/circuits/wires just to fuck with it.
I use mine to play quake 3, as a media box, a web server, to code python on. You don't need to actually buy that much "just to fuck with it" Besides the obvious keyboard, mouse etc, you can get by quite well with some cheap electronics to get you started. Things like jumper wires, a bag of LED's, some buttons, motors. Things like that.
Yea I never messed with EE. I should probably touch some of that b4 going into Pi i guess?
[QUOTE=Uglehs;40810444]Yea I never messed with EE. I should probably touch some of that b4 going into Pi i guess?[/QUOTE]
You don't need to, and you could even use your pi to get you started. It's just easy with the pi and can be fun.
One of the projects I'd recommend if you want to get started programming on the raspberry pi is a floppy drive head mover.
There is a lot of documentation online on how you can control it so I won't go into depth atm.
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I've got one. Built some ghetto style cooling on it for some modest overclocking. Mainly testing stuff. Soon gonna move towards the EE-stuff of it. Leds, Temp etc. Gotta make sure to protect the little Pi though. As in 5-3.3v logic converters etc
I have one sitting next to my TV because it's slow and I don't know what to do with it
I have one sitting around that I plan to use to process audio from an input and flash lights based on it, but I need to actually get around to doing so.
[QUOTE=ZenX2;40835072]I have one sitting next to my TV because it's slow and I don't know what to do with it[/QUOTE]
Media player?
I just ordered mine. Using to get in dept with python. I don't like to keep my computer on 24/7 because it's a small house and computer can be annoying.
There's also electricity bill to worry about.
I was using one to host PiBot for a while, but it has issues with datetime over a period of time (Mono).
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[QUOTE=jung3o;40835551]I just ordered mine. Using to get in dept with python. I don't like to keep my computer on 24/7 because it's a small house and computer can be annoying.
There's also electricity bill to worry about.[/QUOTE]
I don't think a Pi would be any issue at all.
The only thing I've noticed is that when you run programs, etc on it, it maxes at 100% CPU at all times.
But it's not an issue. I've checked temperature before and it's only mildly warm after a few days. Even overclocked, but don't go too far or you'll have to use a keyboard to override the OC if it fails.
Working on integrating octoprint so I can print wirelessly with my 3D printer and control and watch it from any internet connected computer. hopefully. That way I can leave the house and not worry about fires or a wasted print. or the machine damaging itself
[QUOTE=paindoc;40836795]Working on integrating octoprint so I can print wirelessly with my 3D printer and control and watch it from any internet connected computer. hopefully. That way I can leave the house and not worry about fires or a wasted print. or the machine damaging itself[/QUOTE]
That is a bloody good idea. My printer sits in the garage and I hate having to pop down every 5-10 mins to check the reel is feeding properly etc. Some kind of remote monitoring and control system was something I've been considering for a while. I think this might just be a summer project.
It seems pretty intuitive. I'm with ya, having to check the filament feeding pisses me off. Also making sure nothing burns and nothing comes off the bed is also really useful
I should never have bought 1lb rolls, those things get tangled so damn easy!
A friend of mine just recently made an arcade cabinet using a Raspberry Pi, an ipac controller, a joystick, some buttons, plywood, and software called pimame. It ran SNES, PSX, and MAME emulators. It works awesomely and is fun as hell. We played Earthbound like all day in school, on an arcade style environment.
There's an endless amount of possibilities with the raspberry pi
I've had mine for months but I haven't it because I'm too lazy to unplug my keyboard and plug it into the RPi.
But eventually I'm going to use it as a media center for my TV, or use it as a media server if it's fast enough. I haven't played with it so I don't really know what it's capable of yet.
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If you want to fuck around and learn circuits, an Arduino would work better I think
We are using Raspberry Pis currently as weather stations/kiosks and solenoid controllers for other projects.
Friend of mine in class just actually built a wifi robot using one as well.
They're nice little switchboards.
[QUOTE=Electroholic;40848442]If you want to fuck around and learn circuits, an Arduino would work better I think[/QUOTE]
You'd probably be better off using a simple PIC microcontroller if you had the money for a development kit/programmer board.
Check out the BeagleBone Black, it's $10 more but it has a faster processor and stuff. It's a pretty solid competitor to the Pi
I am using for a shitty little media center using XBMC, which if someone could help me find a better media center than that, it would be appreciated.
Mine just lie in my desk drawers.
So many cool things I want to do with them, one day.
Mine's a mumble server. :v:
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;40876969]Mine's a mumble server. :v:[/QUOTE]
I could never get murmur working on mine. :(
Worked out of the box for me. sudo apt-get install mumble-server was all I needed. Then it's just a config file.
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;40876987]Worked out of the box for me. sudo apt-get install mumble-server was all I needed. Then it's just a config file.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure I got some error, it was months ago though. Going to try again now.
I think it'd be cool to get into using a Raspberry Pi. I've been thinking about using one that reads either my email subjects lines or facebook posts and using it to play music I have. Dunno how complicated that would be.
I got mine. the first thing i managed to do after i got it working was
[code]rm -rf /*[/code]
now i have re-install the thing again :v:
All i wanted to do is delete everything in a folder by doing ".*" instead of "/*"
:suicide:
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Trust in the user is such a weakness in the system. I believe most of one of the toy story movies had to be reconstructed because a command like that was done.
[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;40904832]I think it'd be cool to get into using a Raspberry Pi. I've been thinking about using one that reads either my email subjects lines or facebook posts and using it to play music I have. Dunno how complicated that would be.[/QUOTE]
Pretty easy, you can find code in the Mag-Pi magazine (I think? or online) that will check your email and light up an LED, just adapt it.
[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;40904884]Trust in the user is such a weakness in the system. I believe most of one of the toy story movies had to be reconstructed because a command like that was done.[/QUOTE]
Backups are important!
[QUOTE=Jookia;40906363]Backups are important![/QUOTE]
They had backups, but the source became larger than 4GB and they failed :v:
They had to restore the film from an off-site work station and tons of local backup copies of single files.
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