Raspberry Pi the new simple SMALL PC

[KardBoard]

I purchased from RS Singapore | World Leading Distributor of Electronics, Electromechanical and Industrial Components
I missed out on the case but managed to find a clear enclosure from RS Singapore | World Leading Distributor of Electronics, Electromechanical and Industrial Components
therefore I will purchase from them for convenient sake.

so what os u have try on the pi 2?openelec?any review.I cant get a hand on it as need to pre order.long lead time

 

[233mmx]

openelec or raspbmc are good choices if you want use the pi as a htpc

 

[uris]

Sorry anyone knows how to get the IR remote transmitter in Singapore?

I got a secure room that needs someone to turn on/off certain devices but the IR remote can't penetrate through the wall. Wanted someone that allows people outside to on/off the devices inside.

I am an engineering noob (can't solder or know anything about electronics) but I can work with the OS level once the IR transmitter is installed. Any advice or is there any ready-made IR transmitter that can integrate?

 

[xcodes]

Where can I buy Raspberry Pi 2 from a local physical store here? Thanks in advance.

 

[KardBoard]

So have any1 use the ras pi 2?i just got it from element 14.when using openelec , quite responsive.might wanna try retropie or pibob.

 

[murugaratham]

anybody doing any new project?

i just got a raspberry pi 2, and started writing a smart mirror app using nodeJS & ReactJS.

Essentially, it's a web app that can make your old monitor a little smarter. Currently, it can do the following:

• Retrieve weather details based on your current location or configured coordinates
• Fetch latest news from RSS feeds
• Display date time (lame, but...)
• Understand some basic commands (wait, read for me)
• Read the news feed article in the current view port

a preview of how it looks like currently

I'm looking for more hackers to mess around and build more functionality.

For quick-start

• Install Raspian (OS)
• Chromium
• Nodejs

clone my repo

Go to OpenWeather and register a key for and replace the API_KEY in src/Utils/Constants.js

(Optional)
Generate a SSL cert (instructions)

Generating a cert will help with the speech recognition library that i'm using (annyang.js) in performance.

Your pi obviously needs internet connectivity (to fetch weather & news), you can use your ip-table to block inbound if you feel unsafe.

There are some suggestions for others, like integrating Spotify to play music, but after digging into their API, i realised that their term of use, requires user to sign in and the app needs to use OAuth2 to proceed. I find it too troublesome for the user to set up, so i abandoned that idea. I'm considering pulling emails/to-do lists from services like gmail, yahoo, wunderlist, etc

I'm looking for UI designers, so that i can make it look more attractive and nodeJS folks to help realise some other ideas that i'm building.

I'm currently working on a self-updating mechanism, it's kinda hackish, but it works for now... Spread the love

 

[Entry Level PC]

Imho.
I would go get Pipo X7 Pro instead.
Better specs and comes with win10.

 

[limjq44]

Hi, sorry for bumping this 1 year old thread up, but I've created a smart mirror too

Here's the link

Built from the latest Raspberry Pi 3!

This project is designed by me and I did NOT use any github projects to start off with.

Current features includes :

- Current temperature (from the nearest weather station from your house)

- Weather forecast of different regions of Singapore ( you can add as many regions as you want to), I've added my house, my gf's house and my workplace. It also tells you how the weather is like today.

- Next 4 days forecast, simple, telling you whether it will rain or not.

- Current time,day and date

- Alarm clock feature

- Bus arrival timings ( You customize this to display which bus and which bus stop according to the time of the day)

- Traffic News

- Smart greetings, will display greetings according to the time of the day

- Channel News Asia's latest news ( CNA style, bottom banner ) xD

- Play youtube videos

- Latest rain forecast of Singapore

- Show 4D results!

- Watch Channel News Asia

- Listen to Singapore's Radio Stations!

- Voice controlled too!


Here are some images of my mirror

With bus arrival timings

With traffic news

Greetings and News

Rain forecast

4D Results!​

 

[KardBoard]

Cool project...BTW any1 here with new or latest project to share?

 

[murugaratham]

Long time since I've touched my mirror, limjq44 nice project, is it still updated and how do we try Ur app?

 

[bsouly]

raspberry pi could be the future.

 

[KardBoard]

Currently using it as a headless music player with wolfson card and Runeaudio.really great for those for want portable player with your audio setup.

 

[dryteletubby]

Where can I buy a raspberry pi 3b+ without too much of a mark up.

 

[KardBoard]

Where can I buy a raspberry pi 3b+ without too much of a mark up.

Elements 14 or rs.price wise fix.if cheaper not sure.some shop in sim tower sell more ex.

 

[MoxLotus]

Where can I buy a raspberry pi 3b+ without too much of a mark up.

element 14. but its on backorder now...

 

[qwerty84]

cheaper to get from carousel

 

[gentoro]

I have 1 set Pi 3B+
- 2.5A usb 2pin power adaptor
- Red white casing
- Sandisk 16gb
- Installed with rasbian & win10 lOT

Reason - extra set for win10, i too busy with my retropi set... hehe.... Willing to let go cheap and fast deal self collection. Please watsapp me at 9.6.9.0.5.0.5.5. Thanks

 

[skystopper]

Have anyone tried setting the Pi as a cloud storage (Nextcloud/ownCloud)? Is it easy to set up for someone who has little to no knowledge on programming/coding?

 

[grynove]

lets revive this thread for the new upcoming raspberry pi 4. hahah

 

[davidktw]

pi-top [4] the smarter way to design, code & make anything!
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