You can get PCIe cards with multiple Ethernet ports. Then use something like Pfsense to create a nested switch. But I think it would require its own CPU.
PiHole may be able to handle all that now. The software has really come a long way. I'm waiting for someone to find a way to load Pihole on retail routers ala DD-WRT.
I think I'm going to go with a POE hat and switch. It'll give me an easier way to expand and tinker and reduce the wiring inside the already small case.
Also I tend to fuck up a lot and occasionally have issues shutting down the pi using the included power switch, this will let me effectively unplug it and POE hats have cooling/fans, which seems like a good idea in an enclosure shared with other things that generate heat.
PiHole users: what Blocklists are you using? I've got 3 or 4 and I'm looking to consolidate.
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Weird question, but we've been struggling with my daughter and her inability to process how much time she has, so I was thinking of trying to get some LED's and making a sort of color clock, where the color changes as "event" approaches. I'm hoping the code for "check time, return time X, display color X" is relatively light work, and I can do this with the Zero I have? Also, does anyone have suggestions for some lights that would work well? Debating between a bulb and trying to set up some sort of string light deal.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
The hardest part of scripting that seems like it would be doing the math to connect change in the countdown variable to movement through the three dimensional R, G, B space, drawing a line from the starting color value to the final deadline color value.
Weird question, but we've been struggling with my daughter and her inability to process how much time she has, so I was thinking of trying to get some LED's and making a sort of color clock, where the color changes as "event" approaches. I'm hoping the code for "check time, return time X, display color X" is relatively light work, and I can do this with the Zero I have? Also, does anyone have suggestions for some lights that would work well? Debating between a bulb and trying to set up some sort of string light deal.
The easiest may be to buy a breadboard, wire in 3 LEDs (red, yellow, green?), then modify the code. Thus you remove having to deal with color codes and just have to turn a specific channel on/off with the GPIO connection.
I was messing with Retropie on a Pi.
Then, I wanted more power an hooked a laptop up to the TV.
Still, it is fun to have as something portable to use.
I will have to hook it up and see if there are any updates.
PiHole users: what Blocklists are you using? I've got 3 or 4 and I'm looking to consolidate.
Semi-related: I've been giving thought to a PiHole option as a way to block Youtube ads (the way my browser can, but for apps).
Unfortunately that seems completely beyond what a physical solution like that can do (even through a browser app can). So back to square one.
Yeah, DNS level blocking won't work because Youtube uses _all_ the tricks to deliver adds and rotates, individualizes and randomizes the domain names and addresses you could intercept - as far as I understand it.
For now, uBlock keeps youtube ad-free, so whatever anti-ad wizardry they're doing still works. Although sometimes a video just straight up won't play until after the nominal length of the advert.
Yeah, on the browser level you can modify the elements that get displayed. That’s like destroying the mailbox vs. trying to intercept every adress which could send you something.
Bah, I got the bright idea to try putting together a PiHole and literally everywhere is sold out of everything. Hell I finally stopped looking for the recommended 3B+ and just decided to go with a 4, and in the time between picking it out, signing up for Adafruit, and re-doing my cart... it's sold out.
Bah, I got the bright idea to try putting together a PiHole and literally everywhere is sold out of everything. Hell I finally stopped looking for the recommended 3B+ and just decided to go with a 4, and in the time between picking it out, signing up for Adafruit, and re-doing my cart... it's sold out.
Oh, I just got an email from the Turing people, since I backed their Turing Pi 2 kickstarter.
We're thrilled to announce that the Turing RK1 is now available for pre-order. You can choose from 8, 16 and 32GB RAM.
That's their own Rockchip RK3588 SoC they've been developing. Definitely interested in that for my homelab cluster.
...so I decided to order four of the 16 gig versions of their RK1 SoCs. More expensive than CM4 equivalents (...though I think CM4 only goes to 8 gigs?), but a whole lot more powerful.
Also I should really look into Ansible. I keep going "but I just have to change whatever setting on four devices, I'll just do it manually this time too."
I am considering building a multi effects pedal board for my guitar using my old pi3b+ as a fun project
But on the other hand I'm extremely bad at soldering, and worse about building any kind of enclosure
But it doesn't seem impossible with a bit of tinkering, mainly I'll need a USB audio interface, a few momentary switches and maybe pots, miscellaneous wires, maybe a touch screen if I don't want to make the unit headless somehow. Oh and a fan and heatsink for the pi itself since it'll need overclocking for latency issues.
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PiHole may be able to handle all that now. The software has really come a long way. I'm waiting for someone to find a way to load Pihole on retail routers ala DD-WRT.
Also I tend to fuck up a lot and occasionally have issues shutting down the pi using the included power switch, this will let me effectively unplug it and POE hats have cooling/fans, which seems like a good idea in an enclosure shared with other things that generate heat.
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Maybe something like this?
https://www.pishop.us/product/unicorn-hat-hd/
Multiple vendors make something like this, but this is one of the first I found in stock.
Should be easy to do some sort of clock that changes color as time decreases.
Pi4’s are still hard to find in stock though.
https://maker.pro/raspberry-pi/projects/raspberry-pi-three-in-one-timer-clock-countdown-timer-stopwatch
The easiest may be to buy a breadboard, wire in 3 LEDs (red, yellow, green?), then modify the code. Thus you remove having to deal with color codes and just have to turn a specific channel on/off with the GPIO connection.
Then, I wanted more power an hooked a laptop up to the TV.
Still, it is fun to have as something portable to use.
I will have to hook it up and see if there are any updates.
The guy seems more focused on Android. A Kindle works great for emulation.
Semi-related: I've been giving thought to a PiHole option as a way to block Youtube ads (the way my browser can, but for apps).
Unfortunately that seems completely beyond what a physical solution like that can do (even through a browser app can). So back to square one.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bBdq2hf5R0I
Yeah, DNS level blocking won't work because Youtube uses _all_ the tricks to deliver adds and rotates, individualizes and randomizes the domain names and addresses you could intercept - as far as I understand it.
Even though I'm a Prime member
Now begins the eternal quest of scoring some CM4 modules and a half-decent Mini ITX case.
A shame that the actual Pi boards needed to drive it are still so hard to find in stock anywhere at the moment.
As a result I’m running klipper for my printer on a 8GB Pi4. Way overkill for that.
https://www.pishop.us/product/raspberry-pi-4-model-b-4gb/
In stock, at the moment.
1800+ 8GB Pi4s in stock at Digikey!
That's their own Rockchip RK3588 SoC they've been developing. Definitely interested in that for my homelab cluster.
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/07/review-beepy-a-palm-sized-linux-hacking-playground/
Remotely unlock cars and garage doors! (Do not actually do this.)
https://www.clockworkpi.com/
(Uses the Pi CM4).
It's like a Game Boy, a scientific calculator, and a laptop all got shoved in a blender, and spat back out.
I've managed to secure orders for 3, thats right THREE Pi4s with the memory level I want (ie not 4/8 GB) in the last week and a half.
Of course I don't need any more Pi4s now at the moment, but still, it feels great to be able to get the things again.
...so I decided to order four of the 16 gig versions of their RK1 SoCs. More expensive than CM4 equivalents (...though I think CM4 only goes to 8 gigs?), but a whole lot more powerful.
It's glorious. Digikey alone has over 6000 Pi4 8GBs in stock. Maybe by the new year we will see CM4s in stock continuously as well.
But on the other hand I'm extremely bad at soldering, and worse about building any kind of enclosure
But it doesn't seem impossible with a bit of tinkering, mainly I'll need a USB audio interface, a few momentary switches and maybe pots, miscellaneous wires, maybe a touch screen if I don't want to make the unit headless somehow. Oh and a fan and heatsink for the pi itself since it'll need overclocking for latency issues.
Anyone ever tried anything like this?