denverpilot
Tied Down
I wasn't going to get it done for Christmas or anything but I was thinking I would build up a little Raspberry Pi based doo-dad for family which would hang on a wall and basically act as a smart picture frame, where family could upload photos and videos and such, to a shared cloud place, and then everyone would have all the latest and greatest family photos on their wall.
(Barring someone accidentally confusing their porn stash with the family directory, of course. That'd probably bring the whole thing to an end. Hahaha.)
And it would use the little 7" touch screen and all that, and have a little menu for weather and blah blah.
So I did a little shopping around and found some nifty little cases and all that rot, kinda made a BOM list...
Best price is about $100 a unit.
And then I realized, Kindle Fires are $39 (were even $33 on sale on Black Friday) and there's apps for all of this. Haha.
I guess I could just find a way to hang one on the wall. LOL. No point in this project at all.
Think these cheap tablets and what not, will kill most of these sorts of homemade doo-dad things? Heck... they can even do video conferencing...
All came to mind because one of the geeks at work caught a sale on Pi 3 boards and just HAD to buy four of them. He hasn't even opened three of them.
And I've got a few Pi 2s lying around from various projects that aren't doing anything right now.
Obviously if you need the GPIO pins to actually switch things that are attached to the Pi, those sorts of projects are still best to use something like the Pi (or just a microcontroller based board), but for the price tag, most stuff looks like a cheap kindle fire would replace anything you could assemble, for 1/3 the price.
(Barring someone accidentally confusing their porn stash with the family directory, of course. That'd probably bring the whole thing to an end. Hahaha.)
And it would use the little 7" touch screen and all that, and have a little menu for weather and blah blah.
So I did a little shopping around and found some nifty little cases and all that rot, kinda made a BOM list...
Best price is about $100 a unit.
And then I realized, Kindle Fires are $39 (were even $33 on sale on Black Friday) and there's apps for all of this. Haha.
I guess I could just find a way to hang one on the wall. LOL. No point in this project at all.
Think these cheap tablets and what not, will kill most of these sorts of homemade doo-dad things? Heck... they can even do video conferencing...
All came to mind because one of the geeks at work caught a sale on Pi 3 boards and just HAD to buy four of them. He hasn't even opened three of them.
And I've got a few Pi 2s lying around from various projects that aren't doing anything right now.
Obviously if you need the GPIO pins to actually switch things that are attached to the Pi, those sorts of projects are still best to use something like the Pi (or just a microcontroller based board), but for the price tag, most stuff looks like a cheap kindle fire would replace anything you could assemble, for 1/3 the price.
That in itself might be worth it.