Ok so the usual response of shoving it up your butt might not be too viable here. Sharp edges (unless you polish them with sandpaper), pointy GPIO headers, a bulge for Ethernet and USB, and so on. I'll guess we can safely rule this out.
Now, for some technical ideas. It's a computer with GPIO pins onboard. It means that it could fit between your ass chee- ahem, between Arduino and a regular PC. So we're looking for something that Arduino can't provide, but something that a PC also can't provide (or is overkill). I don't know what you could do with those pins.
Due to lower power consumption than PC but still being a computer it's common to use them for 24/7 on tasks, like running an HTPC that you don't want to turn off, home server or 2D/3D print server (a tinyminimicro could be a better idea in that case, especially given the prices and much higher performance).
Since they're USB powered and a power bank could keep them going, I was thinking about something that would maybe use solar power to charge the power bank, and then you could dump the Pi innawoods as a mesh node for some distributed project. Maybe something with LoRa like Meshtastic?
I'm not the idea man though.
I'd go to the microcontroller thrread on diy they know all about this stuff
I've seen a lot of cooler stuff done arduinos than raspberry pis though. Raspberry pis is always some meme home server, pihole, fish tank regulator or some other lame stuff like that. Hell you can go to the Raspberry Pi reddit. There's nothing remotely cool there.
You can't run the OS on Pi. It's a PC with GPIO, no need to use Arduino C and gay libs which may or may not be incompatible with your peripherals. Just use any lang and operate pins however you want, on-device.
Depends what you want to achieve. You could use an entire Pi to make a WiFi controlled light strip, but a simpler microcontroller like ESP8266 would in my opinion be better suited for the task. Flash it once and forget, you don't need to care for it like you should for a full computer, which Raspberry Pi is.
Or you know what, I think I've got a better example. Let's say you want to build a robot vacuum. It needs to drive around your house, so, if you decided you want a simple algorithm: go forward, if hit something then back off, rotate 10 degrees left and go forward, then I'd use some microcontroller like Arduino. However, if I had a complex algorithm, say, mapping out entire floorplan and calculating best path to drive, I'd use some SBC like a Pi. Has much more brains to run that map algorithm, but also has GPIO to control the motors (or at least communicate with another microcontroller that will handle motors).
Fun fact, those fancy botnet vacuums are indeed SBCs on wheels. You can root them (unless you installed newer firmware which blocks you from taking control of your device for some totally not glowing reasons) and use Valetudo to liberate them from botnet cloud.
It could also be argued that even Arduino can be too much sometimes - it's supposed to be a prototyping device, then once you have everything prepared you're supposed to build your own board with just the required bits, rather than keep the Arduino.
depends on what you're trying to do homie
raspberry are little PCs that can run Linux OS's
arduinos are boards with a microcontroller and they're used to interact with electronic components
I was so excited for a whole pasta concerning the feasibility of shoving raspberry pies and arduinos up your ass, but you just had to let me down like that
I'm sorry anon, I'm no expert on inserting hardware into butts. Maybe some other anon will be able to to chime in, usually great stories stem from personal experience.
I thought of a cool use for the Raspberry Pi zero W
I'll tell you guys cause I know you're too lazy to steal my idea
Anyways its google auth keychain sized. Some exist but they rely on servers and shit
This one would just connect to the internet and gives you the first four starting letters of the account along with the auth number. Say you have a github and a gmail account. You start out with gmai 103683 press the button and it changes to gith 393721 and whatever and so on... It'd be displayed through the lcd screen.
You can make a very based router/AP or run other network stuff like servers/services on it.
It also makes for a decent media player/emu machine if you plug it into a TV.
For sure. I'd rather recommend something Rockchip powered though. Rockchip SoCs boot without binary blobs on upstream kernels and have a less moronic architecture. Their Mali CPUs are also pretty well supported my Mesa.
I recommend Radxa.
I think the biggest advantage is probably the fact that you can actually still get one for a more reasonable price. Prices on the actual raspberry pis have absolutely exploded in the time since I bought my 4b, really hope it keeps running smoothly for years with the current market.
I thought a Pi4 was expensive at $60, I just really wanted x265 for a HTPC since all anime is x265 now what the frick happened for it to be pushing $200?
2 years ago
Anonymous
pretty sure it's due to the chip shortage
2 years ago
Anonymous
That is slightly mythical.
When some companies experienced chip shortage they placed orders for the same things with ten different distributors, planning to cancel the other nine after getting the supplies. And then scalpers moved in, big time. Now people report they are met with steep prices and looong lead times, but when they pay the outrageous price, the product appears almost overnight, as if it was always on the shelves, ready to ship.
Car makers were always a bit snotty and imperious and now the entire supply chain is enjoying the view of car makers frying in their own ample fat.
I use mine for desktop PC, running GNU/Linux as OS. It's very usable for anything not graphical intensive. It's also passively cooled, meaning no fan noise.
PI4 is great.
My kids use them as computers with no internet access. If the ever want a portable computer they do extra chores for allowance money and they can build cyberdecks with daddy or piboy XRS ghetto steam decks.
Theres other shit you can do also. Theyre currently overpriced as frick and in desperate need of an update so if you dont already have one i wouldn't fricking bother.
Pi zeros are garbage and you should get radxa zero instead.
Pi400 is still reasonably priced.
I've run one continuously, headlessly for about a year, rebooting it maybe twice in that time for updates. The pi's temperature is whatever the room temperature happens to be. It might as well generate no heat at all.
That being said, it's also full of proprietary, closed-source blobs, so if you're buying a board you might consider something more open-source spending on your intended application.
Ping a list of devices on your network every 5 minutes. I have it add the offline device to a database and created a page to view the database with sorting. It also sends a notification to my phone via AutoRemote and use Tasker to create the notification.
How complicated would it be to connect this to a crt tv for emulation? I remember reading that the 3.5mm port could be used to connect with via composite to a tv but it cut down the cpu and gpu clock speeds. Is this still a thing?
>I remember reading that the 3.5mm port could be used to connect with via composite to a tv but it cut down the cpu and gpu clock speeds. Is this still a thing?
Yes. The Pi 4B has clocking problems, but an earlier model could get the job done.
a lot of things
Give it to me
Ok so the usual response of shoving it up your butt might not be too viable here. Sharp edges (unless you polish them with sandpaper), pointy GPIO headers, a bulge for Ethernet and USB, and so on. I'll guess we can safely rule this out.
Now, for some technical ideas. It's a computer with GPIO pins onboard. It means that it could fit between your ass chee- ahem, between Arduino and a regular PC. So we're looking for something that Arduino can't provide, but something that a PC also can't provide (or is overkill). I don't know what you could do with those pins.
Due to lower power consumption than PC but still being a computer it's common to use them for 24/7 on tasks, like running an HTPC that you don't want to turn off, home server or 2D/3D print server (a tinyminimicro could be a better idea in that case, especially given the prices and much higher performance).
Since they're USB powered and a power bank could keep them going, I was thinking about something that would maybe use solar power to charge the power bank, and then you could dump the Pi innawoods as a mesh node for some distributed project. Maybe something with LoRa like Meshtastic?
I'm not the idea man though.
So Arduino/Arduino knock offs are more useful than pi's?
I'd go to the microcontroller thrread on diy they know all about this stuff
I've seen a lot of cooler stuff done arduinos than raspberry pis though. Raspberry pis is always some meme home server, pihole, fish tank regulator or some other lame stuff like that. Hell you can go to the Raspberry Pi reddit. There's nothing remotely cool there.
You can't run the OS on Pi. It's a PC with GPIO, no need to use Arduino C and gay libs which may or may not be incompatible with your peripherals. Just use any lang and operate pins however you want, on-device.
Depends what you want to achieve. You could use an entire Pi to make a WiFi controlled light strip, but a simpler microcontroller like ESP8266 would in my opinion be better suited for the task. Flash it once and forget, you don't need to care for it like you should for a full computer, which Raspberry Pi is.
Or you know what, I think I've got a better example. Let's say you want to build a robot vacuum. It needs to drive around your house, so, if you decided you want a simple algorithm: go forward, if hit something then back off, rotate 10 degrees left and go forward, then I'd use some microcontroller like Arduino. However, if I had a complex algorithm, say, mapping out entire floorplan and calculating best path to drive, I'd use some SBC like a Pi. Has much more brains to run that map algorithm, but also has GPIO to control the motors (or at least communicate with another microcontroller that will handle motors).
Fun fact, those fancy botnet vacuums are indeed SBCs on wheels. You can root them (unless you installed newer firmware which blocks you from taking control of your device for some totally not glowing reasons) and use Valetudo to liberate them from botnet cloud.
It could also be argued that even Arduino can be too much sometimes - it's supposed to be a prototyping device, then once you have everything prepared you're supposed to build your own board with just the required bits, rather than keep the Arduino.
depends on what you're trying to do homie
raspberry are little PCs that can run Linux OS's
arduinos are boards with a microcontroller and they're used to interact with electronic components
I was so excited for a whole pasta concerning the feasibility of shoving raspberry pies and arduinos up your ass, but you just had to let me down like that
I'm sorry anon, I'm no expert on inserting hardware into butts. Maybe some other anon will be able to to chime in, usually great stories stem from personal experience.
You can connect it to the screen, you can access it with bluetooth but try to add a button to it oh no you can't do that
Nah you’re just stupid
a smol kawaii litte home server
This anon gets it. Even better: make a lovely FTP server for all of IQfy to use. The previous one was great.
Sorry I would but my upload speed is like 10megabits on a good day
Not a problem, I have tens of gigabytes and plenty of time.
flip it on ebay for 10x what you paid for it
Actually RasPi4 goes for 10x of what I paid for RasPi1.
Over the years I have used them for . OSMC, Smokping and now I'm using two V1 Pis for syncing piholes and a Tor server.
I thought of a cool use for the Raspberry Pi zero W
I'll tell you guys cause I know you're too lazy to steal my idea
Anyways its google auth keychain sized. Some exist but they rely on servers and shit
This one would just connect to the internet and gives you the first four starting letters of the account along with the auth number. Say you have a github and a gmail account. You start out with gmai 103683 press the button and it changes to gith 393721 and whatever and so on... It'd be displayed through the lcd screen.
basically nothing that a $10 thin client cant also do
>sold my pi3 because it fricking sucked
>kept my pi1 as a memory and because it runs risc os natively
First shitberry thread on IQfy
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/17349055/
Why do they have such a wider vocabulary?
Back then most people here weren't literal morons.
You can make a very based router/AP or run other network stuff like servers/services on it.
It also makes for a decent media player/emu machine if you plug it into a TV.
The 4b is powerful enough to make for a passable NAS/home server with some powered SATA to USB3.0 cables
For sure. I'd rather recommend something Rockchip powered though. Rockchip SoCs boot without binary blobs on upstream kernels and have a less moronic architecture. Their Mali CPUs are also pretty well supported my Mesa.
I recommend Radxa.
I think the biggest advantage is probably the fact that you can actually still get one for a more reasonable price. Prices on the actual raspberry pis have absolutely exploded in the time since I bought my 4b, really hope it keeps running smoothly for years with the current market.
I thought a Pi4 was expensive at $60, I just really wanted x265 for a HTPC since all anime is x265 now what the frick happened for it to be pushing $200?
pretty sure it's due to the chip shortage
That is slightly mythical.
When some companies experienced chip shortage they placed orders for the same things with ten different distributors, planning to cancel the other nine after getting the supplies. And then scalpers moved in, big time. Now people report they are met with steep prices and looong lead times, but when they pay the outrageous price, the product appears almost overnight, as if it was always on the shelves, ready to ship.
Car makers were always a bit snotty and imperious and now the entire supply chain is enjoying the view of car makers frying in their own ample fat.
install plan9
I use a Pi 3A+ as a DNS blackhole and a Pi 4b as retro game console that plays up to generation 5.
Run a tor node
I use mine for desktop PC, running GNU/Linux as OS. It's very usable for anything not graphical intensive. It's also passively cooled, meaning no fan noise.
PI4 is great.
My kids use them as computers with no internet access. If the ever want a portable computer they do extra chores for allowance money and they can build cyberdecks with daddy or piboy XRS ghetto steam decks.
Theres other shit you can do also. Theyre currently overpriced as frick and in desperate need of an update so if you dont already have one i wouldn't fricking bother.
Pi zeros are garbage and you should get radxa zero instead.
Pi400 is still reasonably priced.
Hiding one in a hotel room and having lifetime free VPN
Now this is actually based as frick
burn your house down like the many wannabe smartasses before you
A pi is a fire hazard?
No. It is a low power device. I have never heard it has ever been the cause of any fire.
I've run one continuously, headlessly for about a year, rebooting it maybe twice in that time for updates. The pi's temperature is whatever the room temperature happens to be. It might as well generate no heat at all.
That being said, it's also full of proprietary, closed-source blobs, so if you're buying a board you might consider something more open-source spending on your intended application.
Ping a list of devices on your network every 5 minutes. I have it add the offline device to a database and created a page to view the database with sorting. It also sends a notification to my phone via AutoRemote and use Tasker to create the notification.
What is the point of that? Are you afraid of intruders?
Let's me know a device is offline.
Use it to blast the awesome power of electromotive forces at glow Black folk.
How complicated would it be to connect this to a crt tv for emulation? I remember reading that the 3.5mm port could be used to connect with via composite to a tv but it cut down the cpu and gpu clock speeds. Is this still a thing?
>I remember reading that the 3.5mm port could be used to connect with via composite to a tv but it cut down the cpu and gpu clock speeds. Is this still a thing?
Yes. The Pi 4B has clocking problems, but an earlier model could get the job done.