I'm making have made a laptop out of the new Pi 2. Look:

I ate mine yesterday.

That sound like a cool project!

I'm working on making a wifi controlled sprinkler system.


Does anyone know if there is an official Raspberry Pi topic? That would be cool to see all of people's different creative ideas.

christian2000 wrote:

That sound like a cool project!

I'm working on making a wifi controlled sprinkler system.


Does anyone know if there is an official Raspberry Pi topic? That would be cool to see all of people's different creative ideas.

I already checked, and there isn't. There are a few, but they haven't received new posts in a pretty long time.

We should elevate this to “Official Raspberry Pi Project Thread”

christian2000 wrote:

We should elevate this to “Official Raspberry Pi Project Thread”

Ok.

I really cannot abide this forum's strange obsession with erroneously naming threads “Official…”.

Late night grumpiness aside I'm vaguely planning on using on as the basis for a project to read data from museum environmental sensors. The software that exists for that stuff at the moment is a nightmare!

That sounds pretty cool!

So far I've gotten the relays and power supply to work for the sprinkler valves. Now to work on the coding!

My bro got one of those for his birthday! So far he's using it to learn Scratch

Code_Name_Geek wrote:

My bro got one of those for his birthday! So far he's using it to learn Scratch

Cool!

I ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B from Element14 and received it yesterday, just one day after ordering! (I've never had overnight delivery before)

nathanprocks wrote:

I ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B from Element14 and received it yesterday, just one day after ordering! (I've never had overnight delivery before)

Wow! that's cool! any plans so far for it?

christian2000 wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

I ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B from Element14 and received it yesterday, just one day after ordering! (I've never had overnight delivery before)

Wow! that's cool! any plans so far for it?

Not at the moment. I don't have the money to buy anything for it. For now I will just use it for programming in Python and to see what cool software is available. I don't have a USB Wi-Fi dongle or wired network at home so I will use USB tethering on my mum's phone for internet access.
I have a USB Bluetooth dongle, so I should be able to connect my Wii remote to use in Python. I think the Wii remote could work well with MAME and other emulators.

I feel sad that I'm not allowed to buy a Raspberry Pi. I can buy a Raspberry Pie though.

turkey3 wrote:

I ate mine yesterday.

Was your pi tasty?

nathanprocks wrote:

I ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B from Element14 and received it yesterday, just one day after ordering! (I've never had overnight delivery before)

Wow, I wish I could get mine that quickly. I'm in the USA and have been waiting about a week and it still hasn't SHIPPED.

gigapouch wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

I ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B from Element14 and received it yesterday, just one day after ordering! (I've never had overnight delivery before)

Wow, I wish I could get mine that quickly. I'm in the USA and have been waiting about a week and it still hasn't SHIPPED.

Have you taken a look at Newark element14? I believe they have next-day as standard.

Zeusking19 wrote:

gigapouch wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

I ordered a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B from Element14 and received it yesterday, just one day after ordering! (I've never had overnight delivery before)

Wow, I wish I could get mine that quickly. I'm in the USA and have been waiting about a week and it still hasn't SHIPPED.

Have you taken a look at Newark element14? I believe they have next-day as standard.

No. I actually bought mine with a kit here because it is a lot cheaper than buying all the parts in the kit seperately: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MV6TAJI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

(Complete Kit)

Aside from the PSU for the screen and the 32 GB microSD card, these are the other items I ordered:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KF9LHUI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MQLKQM8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Bump

I'm in need of an rpi idea. Anybody have one?

(I was thinking about using it to host my site, pulljosh.x10.mx, but then decided against it, because our internet is already really slow.)

I setup my Pi to be “headless”. All I have to do is plug in the power and and ethernet. I use my laptop USB port to power it and I have a direct ethernet connection from my laptop to my Pi.
How I done it:

• Configure Pi to automatically obtain IP from DHCP server I just realised that this is default
  
• Enable SSH in raspi-config
  
• Install tightvncserver (for a remote desktop)
  
• Install avahi (zero-configuration networking allows you to connect to the Pi using its hostname rather than IP address)
  
• Enable ‘Internet Sharing’ to ethernet in OS X (must be connected to Wi-Fi, but it also works when you create a Wi-Fi network). This enables the DHCP server so that the Pi can obtain an IP address, while also giving it internet access through Wi-Fi.
  

I think that is everything.