Your Raspberry Pi Projects

I'm thinking of maybe creating a permanent roguelike machine. Something with a little screen, running something like Nethack or ADOM with a little keyboard. Then just continue with the game every now and then when I walk past.

Or maybe a little Bitcoin tracker display.

Hmmm I will think a bit.
 
GreGorGy said:
Hehe -so the other day they had that PiZero special at pishop.co.za
(hey, it is still there for R80 https://www.pishop.co.za/store/raspberry-pi-zero/raspberry-pi-zero_0)

I got one (because it was R80) and installed Rasplex on it. What an amazing little workhorse. Now my bedroom tv has plex on it. I hate watching telly in bed but I also hate the idea of these things lying idle. We need to get better hobbies...
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Dont you find it to be a bad experience? I bought one to try Pi+OSMC(Kodi)+Plex as a potential replacement for Rokus. Interface was a little slow, but it failed hard on playing HD video. I suspect my poor wifi signal and the tiny chip/antenna has something to do with it though. The "full" rpi 3 with the same setup works fine, though I had to install heatsinks.
 
vic777 said:
I struggled to find a case for my old 1B for a reasonable price. Ended up making an enclosure from a cheap tupperware-like container
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I used Lego. Make an awesome case.
 
rorz0r said:
Dont you find it to be a bad experience? I bought one to try Pi+OSMC(Kodi)+Plex as a potential replacement for Rokus. Interface was a little slow, but it failed hard on playing HD video. I suspect my poor wifi signal and the tiny chip/antenna has something to do with it though. The "full" rpi 3 with the same setup works fine, though I had to install heatsinks.
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Hard to tell to be honest. As I said, it is in my bedroom so I don't really require much heavy lifting from it. I seldom watch there and even if I do, the TV is a 21" not HD screen.
 
I use my Pi for an Octoprint Server for a 3D printer. Since the last update, it has been acting weird, so I want to format the SD card and start again.

Problem is, it wont let me format. I have tried Windows, and SD Formatter, and they cant do it . Now it won't even boot in the Pi.

Is there other software i can try?
 
Akirky said:
I use my Pi for an Octoprint Server for a 3D printer. Since the last update, it has been acting weird, so I want to format the SD card and start again.

Problem is, it wont let me format. I have tried Windows, and SD Formatter, and they cant do it . Now it won't even boot in the Pi.

Is there other software i can try?
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Look for an app called flashnul. Will wipe the entire card so you can reformat in Windows.
 
Ok I didn't even think this was here. Awesome!

Bought pi3 about month ago now. Got cacti running doing some network monitoring. Own cloud as well. Just need to get a external mounted and shared. Seems easy though (weekend project).

Port forwarding also setup so got public access. Also got openssl certs so bit more secure at least if accessing via public address.

Not sure what going to do next. My main objective was to learn bash more.

Monitoring of my network going damn well though. And for the size and price damn good buy.

Something I'm doing all the time, clone sd card before making major changes. Probably broken things 5 times over that can't even boot. But that's best way to learn I guess.
 
There was a it of discussion a while back about HEVC/x265 playback on the Raspberry Pi 3. The software decoding seems to have come a long way in the last couple of months: I've been able to play back some 720p content before and I tested a few minutes of 1080p stuff today which seemed decent as well. The stuff available that I'm playing does seem a bit over-compressed (judging from the file sized) though so you will probably have trouble with higher bit-rate stuff. No overclock.
 
Pseudonym said:
There was a it of discussion a while back about HEVC/x265 playback on the Raspberry Pi 3. The software decoding seems to have come a long way in the last couple of months: I've been able to play back some 720p content before and I tested a few minutes of 1080p stuff today which seemed decent as well. The stuff available that I'm playing does seem a bit over-compressed (judging from the file sized) though so you will probably have trouble with higher bit-rate stuff. No overclock.
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All the 720P stuff I tried worked fine but then I tried a very nice quality Planet Earth II 1080P x265 and the Pi wanted to die.
 
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