Raspberry pi projects
Small, low-power, memory
and compute-constrained. Running linux, and just big enough to fit
Java on.
What more could you ask for?
FlightAware
Software Defined Radio
This POE pi4 has a nooelec NESDR Smartee XR and is currently connected to a parabolic antenna aimed at GOES East. I've not had much luck aiming it.
Backlog projects
- Passive RADAR
- Meteor detection
- Home radio astronomy
NOAA
POE Raspberry Pi 4, nooelec NESDR Smartee XR with a nooelec SAWbird+ NOAA filter & LNA along with a QFH antenna
Pi-Hole
POE Raspberry Pi 4 with piHole installed. An experiment to see if it speed did anything to our overall browsing experience. It didn't, but it did make many pages go a little wobbly, and pretty actively wrecks a few online shopping sites that some family members use on a semi-regular basis.
Pi-Cluster
Four POE rPi 4's set up in as a cluster. Handy for old-school MPI experimentation.
Pi-Agents
Three little POE pi4's as spare stand alone machines
Example Uses
- Retro OS experiments
- SDR Development Projects
- Spiders/Data Harvesting
FlightAware. We have a FlightAware setup and our own ADS-B antenna on the roof. We're using the the official FlightAware "blue" usb receiver with pi-aware software running on a Raspberry pi 3 that is powered over ethernet. On the roof there's an AirNav ADB-B antenna which picks up signals from 200+ miles distant.