This is my 3 LCD graphing setup.
Three display weather graphing setup - Projects - Pimoroni Buccaneers
And this is my Interstate 75 LED matrix outdoor weather display.
Interstate 75 with multiple HUB-75 LED matrix panels - Support - Pimoroni Buccaneers
This one I built before there was a Tufty.
caperjack now owns it, I traded it to him for some Pi stuff.
Guess what I built? - #7 by alphanumeric - Discussion - Pimoroni Buccaneers
Nicenot everyone uses their own sensors.. i often hear they use online-data from other weather services.. So nice done
*smiling* yeah six threads the last 8years feels like a tiny bit toooo long read. *LOL*
i know Raspberry Pi's can be used for a lot of things really good things... but i have never looked in to it, as i myself have no real use for them.. so when i was a bit bored yesterday and started to look around on this forum and saw your thread yesterday and i started to think.. what are you guys using them for
So i just had to ask you to satisfy my curiosity.
My background is in electronics. I'm a retired electronic technologist / technician. It makes it a lot easier to get stuff done that requires soldering, wiring, etc. Even then, I do my fair share of. I still enjoy it though.
It's 1200+ posts if you were going to go read them all.
My background is also electronics. I'm an electrical engineer and still working, but I like to do fun things when I am not working.
Silly me though. Designing and building with Pi's actually looks and feels like work to the casual observer. You'd think I would get enough of this during the day, but I sort of groove on doing hard things. It keeps me out of the pub, at least.
wow *LOL* I'm wayyyy to lazy to even read ten pages back.My background is in electronics. I'm a retired electronic technologist / technician. It makes it a lot easier to get stuff done that requires soldering, wiring, etc. Even then, I do my fair share of
It's 1200+ posts if you were going to go read them all.
I have lost all my interest in computers and electronics... Never make a fun hobby in to work, that is my advice to people nowadays.
I do still get an itch once or twice a year to do a fun project.. Mostly is retro hardware this days.. or i make something stupid and half useless just because i can. *lol*
so both work and hobby.. for how many years? .... as you haven't lost the interest so to speak.My background is also electronics. I'm an electrical engineer and still working, but I like to do fun things when I am not working.
Silly me though. Designing and building with Pi's actually looks and feels like work to the casual observer. You'd think I would get enough of this during the day, but I sort of groove on doing hard things. It keeps me out of the pub, at least.
What I used to spend on a new (Windows) PC build, I now spend on Raspberry Pi related stuff. My interests shifted focus over the years. My main daily user PC is a Windows PC, and my laptop runs Windows. All my Pi SBC's run a custom version of Linux. And the Micro controllers Micro Python. What I did at work doesn't bear much if any resemblance to what I do at home.
Woot,Pimoroni order just arrived. Some new stuff to play with over the weekend. Mostly minor bits & bytes but I did get one of those nice 1.12" 128 x128 OLED's to play with. This will likely end up permanently attached to my Pimoroni Inventor 2040. And some servo's for something I want to try. The rest is QWICC cables and Breakout Garden stuff. Stuff I can never have to many of.
1.12" Mono OLED (128x128, white/black) Breakout - I2C
aha-okay, that do explain some
I feel like i have done it all.. It's only data centers and big server-halls i haven't played with yet, and that feels like kind of a tiny-bit expensive for home lab playing around with.
I do have Retro computers from the 80's and up as a half fun thing though.
I totally get that one, as you get a lot of Raspberry Pi's for one new PC.
That makes it easier if work and hobby isn't the same thing.. at least i feel like that.
I wont mess with your thread anymore, i was mostly curious of what you guys did with your Pi's
Take care and good luck with all your projects
Woohoo! I got the Pi to communicate with the PC! The PC is sending messages to it.
Now I just have to train the Pi to interpret them and take the appropriate actions. That's going to be the hard part.
But a spiffy system display is on its way!
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