craziest thing you did with your Pi

[kurtgn]

what's the craziest thing you did with your shiny new (or not that shiny anymore) Pi?
As for me, I am trying to build a lightbulb controller for my house. This is the coolest piece of technology ever.

 

[Kojote1980]

sorry, no creativity on my side just using it for osmc

 

[Dyps]

No creativity either, for my part I just use my pi to exchange files with some friends

 

[Ronaldo Chambers]

Nothing yet but I would love to use one to create a dreampi device to play dreamcast games online

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[ljredeye]

Tried turning it into a iTunes server once, then a Time Machine backup server another time, but still figuring out the USB storage issue (device names really). Been thinking of making it a basic distraction-free writing machine.

 

[James Ickes]

I use mine for a plex server.

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[wakdev]

Just a small rover for send it on the moon ^^
wakdev.com/en/project/various/roverpi.html

 

[anon(749368)]

My wife's uncle is using it to measure co2 emissions on his home-brewed beer so he knows when to take it off the yeast or something... And he monitors it remotely from his pc... Pretty nerdy stuff

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[jmshub]

My boss set one up to monitor a network cabinet in one of our locations. Temp probe sends alerts to our IT team when the AC goes down, and he is testing a webcam for picture alerts when someone comes in.

I had one set up to open my garage doors. It only worked on my wifi network, I want to rewrite it so I can have it outside the network, and monitor, open and close my garage doors from my phone, anywhere.

 

[JamesDugan29]

I am currently researching how to make a touchscreen tablet, looking for some help but I'll get it done soon. Also looking to build a custom couch with a touchscreen built into it. Got a few ideas just need a little more info to put them into play!

 

[dryja123]

After having 4 packages stolen, during the holiday season, I used MotionEye (surveillance OS) to catch the package theif.

I purchased 2 Pi cameras and hid them in a Christmas wreath from my front door. I planted a brick in a box and left it for the theif who took the bait after 3 days! The theif violated his parole and is sitting in jail while waiting to go to trial for this occurrence.

 

[Marry_Pi]

Probably, not the craziest, but still... My personal user-case on how I've made Skype work great on Raspbian.

For me, this result seems a bit faster and more stable video streaming and less overall lagging. Learn from my Skype on RPi article.

P.S. This guide is likely to be applicable to other ARM devices.

 

[johnny_is_here]

Remote controlled wifi robot