• Cool raspberry pi / arduino projects?
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I gave my brother a decent arduino kit and a raspberry pi hoping he'd tinker w/ it but knowing how I was when I was younger the projects in the kit are kind of boring and rudimentary - not something that I'd personally want to do either. They were good jumping off points for learning the basics but I'm thinking about picking up some cheap sensors and other accessories so that he could actually make something fun with it. Retropie looked kind of cool but it also looks like you just load some files onto an sd card. I managed to run a simple web server off of an arduino so maybe that could be a fun project for him. Anything that would teach him the ins and outs of computers or programming or anything really.
I made an automated watering system with some moisture sensors and cheap pumps. It's actually kept my plants alive for when I'm gone during the summer for a few seasons now. A simple web server that displays moisture values is also neat to have. It's a fun and useful.
my parents have a garden so that would actually be cool
I'd recommend this too. I only did it for a single small potted plant for like 6 months, the build didn't take long, it's cheap and it's pretty satisfying to walk past before I had to dismantle it due to moving.
The Google Cloud SDK is incredibly easy to use for Cloud Speech To Text. You can record an audio file for a few seconds off a microphone, then ask google to turn it into text. It comes back in under a second with a full sentence. It also supports streamed audio sources for realtime stuff without that stage of first recording a file. So the idea is you could have a button that triggers an arecord sequence to get voice to a file for 5 seconds, then get the text form from Google, then parse it as a command to do whatever else. It's free for the first 60 minutes of processed audio (per month, or for all of time, i'm not sure if the 60 minutes ever resets to 0). After that it costs fractions of a penny per minute and is basically still free for home projects.
my mom knows limited english so that's pretty cool too. i'm sure there's a million other ways to go for speech recognition but anything like that would be dope ---- I might get him a giftcard for one of those 3d printer services but I'll see if he's actually interested first.
It might support other languages too, and the Cloud platform most surely also has a language translation service. Perhaps you could languages using foreign words, or translate and parse them in english. Mozilla and Microsoft also offer speech-to-text services, but I can speak from experience that google's is super easy to use.
Can always make a portable raspberry pi game console like a MintyPi or a PiGRRL
Get a senseHAT and log your room climate. I did that and discovered that the dog likes to sneak into my room due to moisture going up from the animal being present.
It isn't terribly involved / as cool as some of the other ones in the thread, but I setup these: Pi-Hole: https://pi-hole.net/ PiVPN: http://www.pivpn.io/ Cloudflared: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/dns-over-https/cloudflared-proxy/ YDNS: https://ydns.io/domains/ Pi-Hole acts as a DNS server to block ads (like the old hostfile edits) All non-blocked DNS requests use Cloudflare as the upstream and do so over HTTPS. My router is configured to use the Pi as the DNS server so all devices on my home network have ad block inherently and I can block some stupid smart T.V. phone home bullshit. The Pi keeps YDNS updated so I have a domain name to connect to when I am not at home (I don't have a static IP). PiVPN is setup so my phone can connect to home on that domain name. PiVPN forces the DNS to the Pi-Hole on connected devices (e.g. my phone) so that I have phone-wide adblock without rooting. And since it is a VPN I can connect to free / open wifi without someone nabbing my stuff.
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