Amazing, thanks! Very up his alley.

Here's the build instructions I used!

https://github.com/c0wsaysmoo/plane-tracker-rgb-pi/tree/main

That is AWESOME.

My friend is a big flight buff who keeps flight radar open on a separate monitor all day. Gonna send this to him now

I will say, I once saw a Reddit post about a flight tracker that used a Raspberry Pi, an LED array, and a 3D printed case. I've always been an airline nerd, and this thing will tell me what planes are flying near me. Is it dumb? Yup. Did the costs add up? Sure did! Does it bring me joy to see that the daily flight from Tokyo is the one making noise over my house, or that one particular flight that's neither to nor from my home airport passes over my neighborhood almost daily? Absolutely.

Oh, I don't doubt it.

But I work more than full time and lack funds. It's not impossible - it's impractical.

It's never too late to learn. It's a skill, not an inherent talent or ability; it can be developed from any starting point. ☺️

As someone not even REMOTELY skilled with building things with my hands, boy, I miss the days when you could just BUY neat stuff like this off the shelf instead of having every piece of consumer electronics be a noisy, branded, attention grabbing wiretap/distraction machine scheduled for obsolescence before the first unit ships.

I hate the future.

I've always wanted something like this but when I spec out the parts, I can't ever justify the cost.

The official guidance is not to try to do an in-place upgrade of your Raspberry Pi's OS. It's possible, but the recommended route is to write a fresh copy to a fresh microSD card, reinstall any additional apps, and bring across your config files. When we wrote about the Pi-Hole network ad filter earlier this year, we got multiple comments about upgrades going wrong. It's a free OS that lives on a $5 storage card in a $35 computer. Just buy a new card, write a fresh OS image onto it, and then you can revert by just swapping the old card back in.

Man I love The Reg

At one point I had an FTP server, a website, a gemini capsule, home cinema and torrent running on a cluster.

Not I just have my home cinema and a torrent server.

I am using zero for drone fpv running openhd. And a rp2040 based board to control rc truck. I also have odroid c2 controlling a voron v0.2 3d printer.

I used 10 as a big homelab, 1 as storage, 1 as a PHP server, 1 as a web server and VPN endpoint, 2 as docker swarm nodes.

I use one as a WiFi extender.

My Dad wanted to move his printer to another location, and it doesn't have wifi. I set up a pi zero w as a cups server which the printer is hooked to. He can now remotely print to it from anywhere on his network.

• Home assistant! Super useful for automating anything.
• You could try out ROC for streaming audio between devices. I use to listen to my records and tapes with headphones while lying on the couch.

Anything?

Basically anything you can run on a computer you can run on a Raspberry Pi.

Of course Raspberry Pis are Arm devices. So I guess proprietary software that doesn't support Arm (and the very rare FOSS software applications that go out of their ways to make it hard to use them on Arm for some fucking reason -- looking at you, Cura) would be a little more challenging. But aside from that... anything, really.

My pi 5 hosts jellyfin + qbit + the *arr stack + jellyseerr so people I share it with have an easy UI to get and watch movies/shows without me having to be involved.

I’ve also played with selfhosting small LLMs and image generators on it, but that was more for fun than for any useful result (even an 8gb pi 5 is very slow and can only run tiny models).

The next project is probably getting more external storage for it and hosting my own photo storage, but honestly I’m pretty happy already with what I have

Depends what your needs are I run a mailserver a DNS/pihole and several of my own applications.

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That worked, thank you.

it's ... hot

So, one Raspberry Pi 500 will do /s

This is uh ... cool

It may be unrelated but I had this happen on my mechanical keyboard.

You can remove key cap, hold keyboard upside down and keep hitting the letter, and try some compressed air.

If there was dust or something inside it dislodged it, and keyboard was good after

You can use xinput to temporarily disable a keyboard. Run xinput list to get its ID, then run xinput float ID to disable it.