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The last thing I did was the Hyperion light project for my TV and connected game consoles. Involves a Pi, Arduino, HDMI splitter, a bunch of ws8212 RGB LED's and this USB to component doodad. Takes any input source on HDMI and feeds it to the Pi. The Pi then reads the color of the pixels on the edge of the screen and outputs that info to the Arduino which then uses a few pin outs to match the LED colors to the pixel colors.
Super unnecessary and I inevitably spend some inordinate amount of time troubleshooting it every few months, but playing games on it is an absolute blast.
I'm on work computer right now so I don't have my video of it, but this one is pretty much exactly how it looks.
I know there are some avid Pi guys out there so I'm curious what other projects you're working on or have got planned. Always looking for a new way to waste my weekend.
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scoon.json
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Dec 15, 2018
Currently using a combo of a Wemos Mini D1 and a Pi Zero W / Pi 3 for prototyping some wearable concepts floating in my head
scoon.jsonAnything you can share or still in the secret test phase?
scoon.json
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Dec 21, 2018
AlexPkHey @AlexPk, I can share a doc I wrote for the proof of concept. Will drop a GitHub gist link later
Ellhopo
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Dec 9, 2018
Picroft from Mycroft.ai DIY voice assistant.
Ellhopo
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Dec 10, 2018
You can choose your STT, but Google is still the best. Mycroft brings this back as one pipe, so still privacy compliant. On the STT side, they use their implementation of an opensourced project. As far as the skills go, those are all different skill makers in their community. here is their github: https://github.com/MycroftAI
EllhopoAwesome. Thanks mucho.
PLEXBBY420
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Oct 5, 2018
Let me get dat plex
Ranger_Skip
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Oct 4, 2018
Ordered a Pi to set up my home media server. Once that gets here and I get a little practice with it (first time doing anything like this) I'm planning on getting a 2nd one for my gameboy colour.
Ranger_SkipAyy you gonna run Plex out of it or XBMC?
Axel.se
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Jun 15, 2017
Octopi running from NARD
Hollekatz
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May 17, 2017
So far my favorite projects this year are: - Making a Pigrrl 2 -Networking camera enabled pi zero w's to a pi 3 DDNS as a nanny cam system I can check from my phone. (The pic is one of the hidden locations in a display case) - Making an Onion Pi. (wireless Tor proxy)
That light project is pretty sick! Might have to add it to the list.
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Hollekatzhahah is the lego castle the spycam? So good.
Hollekatz
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May 19, 2017
AlexPkThanks! Yeah, the Pi Zero is inside, the grey square on the top is the camera housing, the power cord runs down the back corner of the display case.
TheSkeleton
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Nov 14, 2016
I'm thinking of making a portable pi pc that's super compact to go with my Planck so I can have the ultimate travel setup but that looks awesome alex
TheSkeleton
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Nov 18, 2017
Sure it won't be coming to fruition for a little while and I'm sure I'll post a discussion about it
Hollekatz
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Nov 21, 2017
TheSkeletonhttps://blog.adafruit.com/2017/02/17/use-an-altoids-tin-to-create-a-portable-raspberry-pi-zero-workstation-raspberry_pi-piday-raspberrypi/
This is what I was thinking of. Sorry I'm late to the party. I haven't actually made it, though. I have enough Pi Zeros lying around that I probably should just to use it for something.
With the Pi Zero W you could used the mini HDMI monitor and - without having to sacrifice the microUSB for the wifi dongle - you could use a keyboard with an adaptor. Upload pics when your done. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Caravan64
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Sep 22, 2016
Thats awesome, I might do that
NYalex
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Sep 6, 2016
dang, just thinking about the planning process before you did all that................man i need to smoke some cannabis my head hurts. LOL
good job making it work!
NYalexThere are some pretty nifty how to's out now, but yea at the time it was kind of a pain hah. There were also many Amazon purchase/returns :)
fppeh
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Sep 5, 2016
How do you get the HDMI input into the Pi? I thought they only did HDMI out.
fppehAh, sorry I combined/skipped a device. The HDMI get's converted to component, and then the component gets read by USB. Not USB to component like I originally said.
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