What fun things can you do with this? Other than PiHole
>>108764924Jellyfin server
>>10876492424/7 webscraping
tech aren't supposed to be fun.it's supposed to make money.
NextCloudOn 3B it's unusably slow though
>>108764924anything that needs to run 24/7
>>108764981jeetbrain
>>108764924>$180 for rpiHahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha !!!!!!!rpi is fucking bankrupt in a few months or so if they won't revert to $60 tops.
>>108764924PiKVM
>>1087653502GB model is about that price.
>>108764924one day I'm gonna buy a small model, an e-ink screen, some buttons and build a little mp3 player that uses mpv because why the fuck not
>>108764950>backup server>LibreELEC as smart tv replacement>Nextcloud>DynDNS>Wireguard>forgeio>changedetection>archivebox
>>108764924A small retro console, although for more demanding titles (N64 and PS1) you may need a fan.Make sure you choose an image for your specific pi model, there are tons online.My father gave me a Raspberry Pi with TONS of old games for Christmas, not only was it a blast to play casually with my friends like we lived in another era, but also opened a door of pi tinkering that 9 years later made me find my passion for computers.My dad is very based, It is to this day the best gift I've ever received.
>>108764981>btw I'm retarded
There are about 4 dozen robotics kits you can buy that run on a Pi3 or better.
>>108765350Haha this company will go bankrupt because they raised the price on their constantly sold out product ! I am very smart!
>>108764924i got a raspberry pi 2 for $5 from a thrift store.i loaded raspberry pi os on it, but it's very slow for use as a desktop pc.i was thinking of setting it up with PiHole, but it is also fast as an emulator machine?>>108766796is that a pi 2 or pi 3?
>>108766832it's sold out because of supply-chain shortages that have been going on since covid, not because people are buying them anymore
RISC OS sorta retro computer
>>108766865Not my pic, my dad gifted me a pi 4, maybe a pi 2 isn't enough for some consoles.Depends on the games you want to play.
>>108764924Magic Mirror. One of the most popular Pi projects in the day (probably still is)
>>108766865>i was thinking of setting it up with PiHole, but it is also fast as an emulator machine?Pis being used for emulation has been a thing for a long time. Depending on the generation anything PS2 and earlier is fine.
>>108766865much slower than your pc for emulationbut a nice feature with a Pi is that you can hook up original controllers directly through the Pi's GPIO pinsyou can also hook it up easily to a crt with its analog composite output
>>108766882Its sold out because of both. There is no way to lower the price when demand out paces supplies.
>>108764924what i do with them: installed kubernetes (well, really k3s) on some old boards i had lying around networked them into a cluster and im experimenting with running shit on them, storage,backup and things like that.for me there's no real utility just mostly fucking around the only actual use i do of them is as a local home storage server like i have a folder on the raspberry i put shit in when i want it easily accessible from my phone,laptop,pc.... and the raspberry is low power and quiet so you can just keep it plugged in 24/7
>>108764924Sell it. They're overpriced rn. LMAO Pi Zero 2W at over $40. RPi 5 at $200. Just buy a real computer ffs. I'm a fan of these things and even I've thrown in the towel on using them for hobby tier stuff. >>108766882The price spiked during Covid and I sold every one I'd bought and replaced them with cheaper OrangePi. Prices went back down, and have now spiked again, but now the OPi are just as expensive as RPi. The OPi 3B with 2GB RAM is still a better deal that the RPi 3B with 1G since it has M2 and eMMC sockets, but "good deal" is relative.
>>108767047A real computer is like $5000 now.
>>108767055old thin clients that run circles around the pi can be purchased for $50 or less.
>>108767047damn thats insane rpi4 is like 8 years old
>>108767055Reminder that RPi is not a "real" computer either. You can still buy ewaste laptops and computers that are more capable than an RPi for less money. >>108767192This. At $35 for RPI3b and $20 for RPi zero there was a value prop for low power consumption. Now that the price is so high there are better options. >>108767210RPi 3B is even older... New HW is just insanely expensive rn.
>>108767276its insanei thought pic related was overpriced when i got it
>>108767047I just boughted the RPi4 1GB for 40 eurobucks. Only the us market is fucked rn
>>108766882its sold out because the consumer market is cheap and petty and fully of needy whiny bastards. raspberry pi mainly caters to commercial clients who dont balk at the idea of spending $180 for an sbc because businesses dont buy shit for fun, they buy shit to solve problems and make money.
>>108764924everything you can do on a real PC, but worse.
>>108768608I’ve always wondered what the intended business user is for these things. I keep hearing that, but I’ve never heard any actual examples. Arduino on the other hand. I totally understand, I’ve personally made several devices at work in my shop off of Arduino‘s and the associated hardware. The problem with raspberry pie as they don’t work well as micro controllers because the timing is vague.I’ve built several hobby servers using raspberry pie, but I’ve just stopped. There’s cheaper ways to do the implementations now.
>>108768924occasionally digital signage, but there are generally much better solutions for that; larger displays tend to use specialty gpus like matrox, and there are some displays which have their own integrated computers for preloading ad copy. pis are more generally used for stuff where the gpio or camera matters, like product dispensers or even industrial control applications. networking, hid/io, and guis are infinitely simpler (and orders of magnitude cheaper) with a pi than with anything you can mount on din rail like plcs, but you can still use the gpio for sensors and relays for higher voltage/current stuff if need be. them also running linux makes programming them a lot easier because you dont need to use some fucked up ladder logic editor from 1997 or learn obscure microcontroller libraries that have you working with raw registers.
>>108764924if you lack the sentience to even google this question first, then you aren't creative enough to make use of one
>>108764924Jam your neighbors bluetooth speaker
>>108768991I’ve spent exactly zero time w the RPi camera interface but I could see how vision control plus Linux and gpio could be worthwhile.
>>108765924>$180 for rpi>2GB model is about that price.Bullshit.2GB Pi 5 is $75 or $75 in stock right now at Pishop and Adafruit.
>>108764981making money is supposed to be done through fun
>>108764981anon you cannot make money buying tech
>>108770108Only correct at small scale. Buy one or two gpus, you will not make money. Buy a hundred or a thousand, now you're getting somewhere
Pi hole, hermes agent, then homepage + cockpit because I use my other computer to host Minecraft servers. Then typical backups and file servers and jellyfin
>>108767506>1GB RAMThat's a fucking awful deal, yuropoor
>>108764924used a pi to play snes games in my car because my car has an hdmi port and a usb port that gave enough power for the pi for some reason kek
You can build a 'reggaeton-b-gone' deviceand replace reggaeton with whatever music chimps listen in your area.>https://github.com/ronibandini/reggaetonBeGone
>>108764966What for? To scrape what?
>>108764924none. it's meant for industrial applications. you shouldn't be buying these, because this drives the prices up for businesses.
>>108767028finally managed to get it workingSBCs have wierd quirks like my raspberry pi 5 crashes breaks the filesystem in some wierd way when i use it's onboard wifi but a usb wifi adapter is fine. on another board (radxa 3w with onboard emmc 32GB of storage) it starts getting errors when the filesystem is under heavy use so it turns it into read-only and makes the k3s/kubernetes fail so i have to use it with a microsd card. next thing i might add is a daily backup for the NFS storage
>>108764981just rangeban the Indian subcontinent at this point holy fucking shit
>>108770730that's racist
>>108767506Even with USD / Euro rate that's better than US cost. >>108770510Where is this at, I only see them at full retail. It's still a good deal comparitively as it comes with kb, mouse, a book, and PS... I'll have to look up the specs; always thought these were just keyboard cases with RPI3B's stuffed inside. Obv not. >>108770730That's awesome.>>108771755NTA but I use one of my SBC hobby servers to d/l files using yt-dlp (me-tube) or via torrent. I'll find something I want while on tablet or phone, then just send URL or magnet link to the SBC to download for later.
>>108772247And you have external storage hooked up to the SBC?
>>108772467Yes... it's a OPi 3B and iirc it has a 64GB eMMC module attached. It's not meant to serve content long term, so I move the files when done to the NAS... which is another OPi 3B with a 1TB SSD attached through USB. Both can carry an M2 drive but the SSD I already had, and the other, I think it was cheaper to use the eMMC module at the time.
