Raspberry Pi - What do you use it for

[Mucka]

Hi,

I just picked up my first raspberry pi, Looking online there are so many uses but what do you use your pi for?

[DanceswithUnix]

Ours has an LED board plugged on it. The more people log into our Minecraft servers, the more LEDs light up. Controlled by a Python script which I get the kids to maintain to help them learn some coding skills.

[herulach]

I have a banana pi that sits in the car with a 2tb hdd running plex.

[virtuo]

Mine are all sat gathering dust

[Mucka]

I been looking at using it for Retropie games emulator and possibly a vpn or squid proxy.

[Moby-Dick]

I've got a pi2 set up as retropie - and a couple of older gen ones set up with with pi looper for use as digital signs. I've also got a kano kit for my daughter but thats waiting for some serious daddy daughter time to use.

[Flibb]

Thinking about using one to make a ADS-B tracker
http://www.satsignal.eu/raspberry-pi/dump1090.html

What I would really like to build would be a weather station using a Pi

[dturtill]

i have one running Rasplex and connected to the plex server need to get a second one though for the upstairs TV

[iamlorro]

Thinking about using one to make a ADS-B tracker
http://www.satsignal.eu/raspberry-pi/dump1090.html

Yeah, I'm looking into that too - trying to do a windows VM, but will up/downgrade to a Pi if all goes as planned.

You might find these interesting - same blog, different content:

This= a 'simple' setup, including Pi instructions
This = how to upload the data to various flight tracking sites like flightradar24...

do let us know how it goes...

[Elspuddy]

Bitcoin miner, was an old school web cam as well but I stopped it. Iam also thinking about setting it up for retro gaming

[Tekkul88]

Just connected up to the TV running kodi to make it a "smart" TV as it were

[bytejunkie]

im using mine as an airplay receiver and amp with the hifiberry digiamp on top of it. just listed my two old pis including the hifiberry in the classifieds, so i can buy a new pi2 which is going to be the start of the automated dog feeder. yes, im that bored.

[Mucka]

what did you think of the hifiberry?

[mikerr]

Network-wide ad blocker: https://pi-hole.net/


Also have a couple as CCTV cams, and one running TVheadend to record TV (catches progs by keyword)

[TeePee]

Yeah, I'm looking into that too - trying to do a windows VM, but will up/downgrade to a Pi if all goes as planned.

You might find these interesting - same blog, different content:

This= a 'simple' setup, including Pi instructions
This = how to upload the data to various flight tracking sites like flightradar24...

do let us know how it goes...

I'm using one in flight with Foreflight on an EFB. Nice improvement over the 1980's electronics in the Lear.

[bytejunkie]

what did you think of the hifiberry?

brilliant. great sound quality, seriously easy to put together. so good, i bought the second one too, the one with the onboard amp, which is why im selling the dac only one in the classifieds.

Matt