Raspberry Pi (Page 1/2)
williegoat AUG 03, 09:24 PM
I just got another Pi today and hooked up a little OLED display. I will mount it inside the case when I decide exactly how I want to do it.



Just having some fun. Does anybody else play with these things?

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TheDigitalAlchemist AUG 03, 10:40 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:
Just having some fun. Does anybody else play with these things?




On and off the past few years. Mostly use them to run some Panels at work - they display upcoming meetings and such.
williegoat AUG 03, 11:12 PM
That little display is only one inch square and runs on the i2c bus.

I had messed around with i2c on the last couple of desktops I built, but that was really just enabling the kernel modules and installing some packages. Now, I know why I was doing what I was doing.

The Pi's are hard to find right now, but I bought this one from a company in NYC called AdaFruit. I was figuring you might know those people. It seems like an interesting place.
theogre AUG 04, 01:53 AM
R-Pi and related is often either over kill or not enough CPU etc to do a job.
Over kill because of many things and even having an OS to run can hurt or just eats power you don't have using small battery packs.

Is why many things are still done w/ "Arduino" class MCU of many types like engine vs heat thread https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/141784.html

Even many of them are still hard to get...

Then add Most "expects" on YT and others have No Clue how to format data generated by either "system" so can use it in Excel SQL etc w/o more BS or not use various prints and writes constantly slowing down the program.

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Cliff Pennock AUG 04, 02:31 AM
I have a whole bunch of Pi's running all kinds of things. One is my remote entry for my house. I've made an app for my phone where I can type my entrance code and it will open my front door. Haven't used a key for the past 7 years. Another Pi is running a media player (Jellyfin). And a third running as a security cam.


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type my entrance code and it will open my front door. Haven't used a key for the past 7 years.



...which has an unexpected benefit. Sometimes when I go out on the town with my friends, the next thing I remember is waking up in my bed the next morning. And although I can't be sure of anything I might have done the night before, one thing I do know is that I haven't forgotten my phone somewhere or I wouldn't have been able to enter my house. 😁
TheDigitalAlchemist AUG 04, 10:13 AM

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Originally posted by williegoat:


The Pi's are hard to find right now, but I bought this one from a company in NYC called AdaFruit. I was figuring you might know those people. It seems like an interesting place.




Limor Fried is super-nice. We haven't done the factory tour, but they have been really nice when we interacted with them at Makerfaires. They have some nice videos for kids and folks interested in learning the basics of Electronics and they produce some unique hardware. Can't say enough nice stuff about them.
williegoat AUG 04, 11:06 AM

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Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist:

Limor Fried is super-nice.


That is the impression I got from everything I've read.


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We haven't done the factory tour, but they have been really nice when we interacted with them at Makerfaires. They have some nice videos for kids and folks interested in learning the basics of Electronics and they produce some unique hardware. Can't say enough nice stuff about them.


I like to see people who are driven by a genuine passion for what they do.
williegoat AUG 04, 11:21 AM

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Originally posted by Cliff Pennock:

I have a whole bunch of Pi's running all kinds of things. One is my remote entry for my house. I've made an app for my phone where I can type my entrance code and it will open my front door. Haven't used a key for the past 7 years. Another Pi is running a media player (Jellyfin). And a third running as a security cam.


...which has an unexpected benefit. Sometimes when I go out on the town with my friends, the next thing I remember is waking up in my bed the next morning. And although I can't be sure of anything I might have done the night before, one thing I do know is that I haven't forgotten my phone somewhere or I wouldn't have been able to enter my house. 😁


I may never do anything that practical, but I came from a time when most electronics still used vacuum tubes, so this stuff makes me feel like George Jetson.
williegoat AUG 06, 10:27 AM
I mounted the OLED display inside the case and modified the python script for a bit of personalization.

The scan lines you see aren’t really there, they are a result of a refresh rate mismatch between my phone’s video camera and the display. The background music is my cover of “I got my mojo working”.
Australian AUG 07, 03:36 AM
I have 2 x pi3b and a pi4 i have game emulators thousands of games. Was going to install one in car.