#Raspberry pi

[talos-stims]

the computer blade | source

[internetc00kie]

Clockwork uConsole CM4

[coredumpproject]

"The next time I design something, I'll leave extra room for wiring.", I lied to myself the last time I designed something.

Just a few more components to jam into my new handheld computer before I can wire it!

I call it the 'Grenade', because it looks a bit like a Grenade when you're holding it.

[sucka99]

[unbfacts]

In 2016, a Comcast user frustrated with slow internet used a Raspberry Pi to tweet Comcast every hour. The bot checked speeds, and if they dropped below what was promised, it sent an automated tweet showing the results directly to Comcast.

[oldguydoesstuff]

Abandoned project to create a little mini theater using an old HP plotter and electromagnet connected to a raspberry pi. (Old Guy does stuff but doesn't always finish them.)

[arctic-hands]

[Video Description: hands typing on a rainbow-lit clicky clacky keyboard, resting on the bottom half of an open black faux-leather clutch, the top half of which has a 4 inch-ish white e-paper screen and a Raspberry Pi module plugged into it. The keys clack and flash as they're typed, and the camera zooms in on the screen where it says "hello happy pi day!!! :D", as an excited and silly-deep voice offscreen says "It works!" End V.D]

I finally have q new-fangled typing machine! A ZeroWriter RasPi compiled together in a freebie handbag that one could say...came thru in a clutch...?

[opendirectories]

[weirdchristmas]

I think I finally found a solution to a lot of my problems with posting the cards each year. Raspberry Pi might be coming to the rescue if I can get two APIs set up exactly like I want. Can't find a service that does what you want? Make your own!

[smashorpassobjects2]

[thamechanist]

Here's the MK3 Servo-skull buzzing out happy birthday

Definitely going to turn it into a yearly birthday tradition now, and I'm thinking I want to make it properly sing for next year

[internetc00kie]

Clockwork uConsole CM4

[samo64]

Here are a bunch of some random computer memes

[fencehopping]

New project I just started: taking an old gameboy and replacing its guts with a raspberry pi computer so I can run an NES original Nintendo with every game on it.

[blazehedgehog]

This is really impressive. Dude basically built an entire retro-style cable TV network into a raspberry pi. It handles everything: proper scheduling, channel guides, ad breaks, station IDs, the whole shebang.

Not only that, but he built it with such specificity that you can have not only seasonal programming (sports at certain times of years, or holiday movies), but even content-appropriate ads: beer commercials during football, or 1-900 numbers during late night programming. He also mentions setting up several cartoon channels that either switch to retro syndicated TV (Nick at Nite) or adult oriented cartoons (Adult Swim) after 6pm.

A RetroPi for emulators is interesting but I feel like if I ever get a Raspberry Pi, I'd want to do something like this with it. I'm just left wondering:

Are all channels simultaneously active all the time? I suppose if you're stringent about everything being a specific length (for scheduling) it wouldn't be that hard to just calculate how far past the hour you were and join a program already in progress, I'm mainly just worried about how often this thing is hitting the SD card and whether too many channels could overload the Pi.

I feel like adbreaks are going to be the biggest problem. Going by the video, it looks like ad breaks are evenly spaced out and probably completely automated. That's not always how TV was structured, and I worry it could splice in an ad break in the middle of dialog or an important scene. If it were me, I'd probably set a "we need a commercial break" flag and look for when a show goes quiet and fades to black for longer than, I dunno, half a second.

The github page implies that it does kind of pick shows at random. I'm sure if he built in specific times of day and seasonal content you could just build out detailed programming blocks (X-Files on Friday night at 8pm, every Friday) but I wonder how much randomness is built into this system. From a structure standpoint it feels like it would be easy to throw an entire series at this thing and have it build out specific time slots and rotate through programming, in order, automatically. Maybe it does, if he has a guide channel, since it would have to know what's coming up next. I just don't want things playing out of order.

It's stressed that this is still early yet, and not exactly user friendly to set up, but man. I am fascinated and want one really badly now.