[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Who has a Raspberry Pi? (Page 1 of 5)
Posted: 12/23/2012 11:59:01 AM EDT
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Inspired by this video, I am think of getting 4 of them and doing some distributed computing software development. $35 each is a cheap way to build a small linux cluster. |
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Quoted: My wife ordered mine off Ebay for $50 for my birthday. Here it is as a motion detecting deer camera with remote VHF monitoring http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q610/jnu5/20121117_201911.jpg http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q610/jnu5/20121117_202334.jpg Nice! |
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I have one but haven't really had the time to do much with it. Pics of mine: Which case is that? I got mine from MCM Electronics. http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi |
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Quoted: Mine came from Built-to-SpecQuoted: I have one but haven't really had the time to do much with it. Pics of mine: Which case is that? I got mine from MCM Electronics. http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi |
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Quoted: I just bought one on eBay with the usb power supply. I assume you can download the linux distro somewhere. There are a few downloads at the Raspberry Pi site: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads |
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Quoted: Quoted: Mine came from Built-to-SpecQuoted: I have one but haven't really had the time to do much with it. Pics of mine: Which case is that? I got mine from MCM Electronics. http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi I bought that case on eBay too, I liked the looks of it in your pics. |
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amateur packet? Psk and mfsk What kind of data are you sending? I had always assumed VHF too slow for photos. With VHF I can send binaries, pictures, text at around 500wpm Look up FLDIGI. There is a build thread for it in the Ham forum. Search 'Deer cam 2000' |
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Quoted: Quoted: I just bought one on eBay with the usb power supply. I assume you can download the linux distro somewhere. There are a few downloads at the Raspberry Pi site: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads Thanks, I downloaded the wheezy one and got a SDHC card created with the kernel image. Should have the pi by next weekend! |
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amateur packet? Psk and mfsk What kind of data are you sending? I had always assumed VHF too slow for photos. With VHF I can send binaries, pictures, text at around 500wpm Look up FLDIGI. There is a build thread for it in the Ham forum. Search 'Deer cam 2000' I will when I have time. I know a company in my area has deer cams that also have wifi and work as a mesh net, however the range is (obviously) limited to LOS. I've always been curious about using something similar but in the 900mhz range or lower. From my understanding, speed was severely limited on VHF due to legalities but could really be opened up. |
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My wife ordered mine off Ebay for $50 for my birthday. Here it is as a motion detecting deer camera with remote VHF monitoring http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q610/jnu5/20121117_201911.jpg http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q610/jnu5/20121117_202334.jpg What software are you using to capture the USB camera feed? Do you need to do anything special to run it without a display "head", or simply unplug the display? |
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I have one. I loaded raspbmc on it and use it as a media center for the family room. I then put Yatse on my phone and tablet to eliminate needing a mouse. I have a 2TB HDD plugged into the usb share on my router and it works pretty well. The biggest hassle is ripping a DVD and transferring the 1GB+ file to the HDD over wifi. If I have a lot of movies to transfer I'll just bring the HDD over to the computer and use the eSATA port. I'm now considering just building a mini ITX PC and loading it with XMBCbuntu since the wife has come around to the idea of a media center PC.
I bought a second one from Allied elec to setup a media center in my bedroom but it was DOA. Allied's RMA was smooth but I haven't been motivated enough to continue the setup. |
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Wow, here is one that will have 50x the PI's power for $99. Interesting times ahead. |
Bought a little gigabit switch for $29 today at TigerDirect store and will try to have the Pi use this 2TB NAS. My plan right now is to try and an build a little RSS feed harvester and store the feeds into a mySQL database. Then I will also have a web server running on the Pi and have it serve up the feeds from the database in a Drudge Report type web page format for my personal use. Should be a good little project for this tiny computer. |
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I ordered one last summer, and it finally arrived a couple of weeks ago... just when I have the least amount of time to play with it. I did fire up the xbmc media center distro on a monitor in the kitchen.
Now I'm looking for cool project ideas and learning Python.. |
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Quoted: Sweet! Have you viewed anything on the youtube yet? If I can get one of these to do that in a decent fashion I'll buy one today. It would make my life much better. No I haven't watched any video yet. It is now a headless server using a separate switch to access the NAS drive I have successfully mounted the filesystem on the the Pi. I have the wireless ethernet setup so I can ssh into the Pi from my desktop, and the separate wired ethernet is on a different subnet connected to the 2TB NAS. I am done for tonight, tomorrow will start coding to parse RSS streams, then try and get a mySQL server running on the PI to store the feed data into. Here is the setup on the floor for now, the Pi is the black box on the left, cheap switch and 2TB drive.  |
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Sweet! Have you viewed anything on the youtube yet? If I can get one of these to do that in a decent fashion I'll buy one today. It would make my life much better. No I haven't watched any video yet. It is now a headless server using a separate switch to access the NAS drive I have successfully mounted the filesystem on the the Pi. I have the wireless ethernet setup so I can ssh into the Pi from my desktop, and the separate wired ethernet is on a different subnet connected to the 2TB NAS. I am done for tonight, tomorrow will start coding to parse RSS streams, then try and get a mySQL server running on the PI to store the feed data into. Here is the setup on the floor for now, the Pi is the black box on the left, cheap switch and 2TB drive. I'm curious. Could you use this thing as an always on, remote terminal with which to access your private home network from a remote location?.....that would be a great thing to have................ |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Sweet! Have you viewed anything on the youtube yet? If I can get one of these to do that in a decent fashion I'll buy one today. It would make my life much better. No I haven't watched any video yet. It is now a headless server using a separate switch to access the NAS drive I have successfully mounted the filesystem on the the Pi. I have the wireless ethernet setup so I can ssh into the Pi from my desktop, and the separate wired ethernet is on a different subnet connected to the 2TB NAS. I am done for tonight, tomorrow will start coding to parse RSS streams, then try and get a mySQL server running on the PI to store the feed data into. Here is the setup on the floor for now, the Pi is the black box on the left, cheap switch and 2TB drive. I'm curious. Could you use this thing as an always on, remote terminal with which to access your private home network from a remote location?.....that would be a great thing to have................ If your router supports it, you should be able to set up a VPN and be able to access your home network over the internet. |
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Got apache web server and PHP installed. Also got a basic RSS feed parser going in PHP (parsing the fox business news RSS feed and creating a web page with hot links to the articles). Things are moving really fast, I should have my own private, custom version of a 'Drudge Report' website up and running in the next day or two, with links to stuff I am interested in. Here is a screen shot of hitting the web server from my Mac Mini.  |
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Got busy at work, so lost some time on my 'Drudge Report' clone. I call it the 'Rob Report'. It reads the RSS url's from a config file, so I can customize the feeds at will. Getting a little further along, this little Raspberry Pi has be great so far, no issues at all with it. Didn't ar15.com have an RSS feed? I don't see it anymore.  |
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It turns out some RSS feeds have image thumbnail urls related to the story links embedded in them. (Obama's mug shot in the BBC feed). Now I am able to display those as well. Getting closer to the Drudge look. Next step is to build a dictionary of keywords I am interested in, and filter the RSS feeds to only show stories related to those keywords.  |
| If you would like to see a good writeup - http://pihomeserver.wordpress.com/ |
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Nice link! (once I figured out how to translate it to english  )
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The newer Raspberrys seem to be able to power USB devices no problem. The earlier ones had some fuses that limited the amount of power delivered to the USB ports, forcing people to buy powered USB hubs to handle these devices. Here I have a wifi dongle and a 1TB drive powered fine off the USB ports.  |
