Happy Pi Day - New Raspberry Pi Announced!

themarkymark (78) in technology • 7 years ago (edited)

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darsico (70) · 7 years ago

great product good to know it's getting even better, raspberry PI is great i used it on my first miners :)

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socky (72) · 7 years ago (edited)

I have an engineering friend used a facial recognition system with some tweaks. Apparently you can download pre-existing code for the Raspberry Pi.

So what did my friend do with it? He painted a bad guy blue!!!! You see he, had a string of vandalisms that were specifically directed at him like wires and water lines cut. My friend decided to repurpose an air operated potato cannon to paint the perp blue. He was afraid that he would get into trouble if he painted a dog, cat, mailman, or child. So he used the raspberry Pi equipped with a camera and facial recognition software to prevent mistakes.

He set up a bait (cheap lawn ornament) that he rigged the ornament so it was difficult to remove and ran a trigger wire. The raspberry Pi prevented false firing. The potato cannon was filled with blue dye that you use in your washing machine to permanently dye clothes. The dye was mixed with shampoo and other ingredients. The cannon was hidden in a rosebush. One day he saw that he had a blue lawn and ran to check out the video record. He was definitely successful painting the bad guy blue. He also got video footage of the bad guy getting into the his car and driving away along with the license plate. The cops were called and the bad guy picked up.

Turns out that the reason was the bad guy had beef with the previous owner and didn't realize that they had moved and a very smart engineer moved in. Hahahahaha... He never pressed charges as the bad guy was a really bad guy that was wanted by the police and apparently discovered other things he was doing that put him away for a very long time.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

This is freaking legendary!! I love it.

I use a lot of Pi's, one project I always wanted to do is have a driveway camera that identifies when UPS/Fedex come and when certain friends show up. Training it on FedEx/UPS and different color vehicle types. Never had the time to work on it, but would be a fun project. Raspberry Pi's are really fun.

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socky (72) · 7 years ago (edited)

My friend also did something similar. He created license plate recognition. The software looks for motion, then looks for shapes that resembles license plates. After that, the software adjusts the plate image to correct for off angle image. Next he uses character recognition software to read the plate. The software finally draws a box around the plate and writes the plate number on the image of the vehicle.

My friend took it a step further and set his raspberry pi to text every time it detected a plate with the image of the vehicle and the plate number.

He had to shut the texting down because he was getting too many texts even though he lived on a cul de sac.

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street.yoga (55) · 7 years ago

Speaking of blue, Bluetooth also got upped from 4.1 to 4.2:

IoT Capabilities:
Low-power IP (IPv6/6LoWPAN)
Bluetooth Smart Internet Gateways (GATT)
With BLE 4.2 Bluetooth Smart sensors can transmit data over the internet.

Security:
LE Privacy 1.2
LE Secure Connections
With new, more power efficient and highly secure features, BLE 4.2 provides additional benefits allowing only trusted owners to track device location and confidently pair devices.

Speed:
250% Faster
10x More Capacity
Compared to previous versions, BLE 4.2 enables 250% faster and more reliable over-the-air data transmission and 10x more packet capacity.
Source

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safetony (47) · 7 years ago (edited)

Bus speed does kill it for the PI unfortunately I prefer spending a bit more on a mini pc as once you start including all the little things you need with the PI such as charger and SD card it's almost the same in price, and it packs a lot more punch and can natively support windows, although I do love the PI I need a bit more performance and less lag as I mainly use it as a media centre.

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pathforger (56) · 7 years ago

I find it puzzling that they haven't taken measures to improve the bus system.

After all - its clearly the weak link in this design - even without the added features.

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archerbullseye (25) · 7 years ago

Yep, eth and usb share the same bus... but it works for a slow(ish) NAS and ofc tons of other purposes.

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vladcostea (53) · 7 years ago (edited)

The quintessential element of the "running a full node" starter pack.

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umermakbar (0) · 7 years ago

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visionarypush (38) · 7 years ago

I'm still loving that price point.

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susantabinod (65) · 7 years ago

nice

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bluu (49) · 7 years ago

Raspberry should create the own cryptocurrency that you can only mine on this device. :)

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braveit (29) · 7 years ago (edited)

Wow. This out steemians
https://steemit.com/steemit/@braveit/fake-it-till-you-make-it-v1-1

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plentyofastrid (37) · 7 years ago

Very good to know! Thanks for sharing, definitely know a few people who will love to hear about this! Love that way you put “worth the extra $0.00” lol

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jancharlest (55) · 7 years ago

This is cool way better to code programs.

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blackfireburns (25) · 7 years ago

Im waiting on more ram, the extra clock is nice but I think they can do more.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Oh, they can do much more, but I don't see anything changing. They are focused on embedded applications and will make very tiny tweaks to the consumer Pi and that's about it. The entire bus has to be gutted for something much faster as the SD bus causes the entire device to be insanely slow.

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blackybabies (57) · 7 years ago

We need more information on pi. What's pi and its necessity? Please, we are eagerly waiting for your discussion. I think you have advanced knowledge on technology. I am just a learner and you are a learned about the topic.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

I posted a link that talks a lot about what the Pi is.

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blackybabies (57) · 7 years ago

Thanks a lot.

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nia.nuraini (45) · 7 years ago

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dragraff (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the information!
The Raspberry Pi is an amazing product, which got even better.
I was planning a home-project with the Pi 2, maybe now would be a good time to do it with the Pi 3

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pyromaniac22 (34) · 7 years ago

I've been looking forward to a new Raspberry Pi, and now we have one!

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angli (47) · 7 years ago

It seems to be really distinctive disovery in field of technology,and it would be convenient too.......

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zulkarnaini.com (30) · 7 years ago

Nice post

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beejaykarki (38) · 7 years ago

Great post love

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voltagrou (48) · 7 years ago

Thanks for your post because I've been checking RapberryPi news for months and finally....nothing.
When I saw your post I was very happy to hear the news.
I'm just disappointed about the partially functional Gigabit but for 35$ it's already nice.

Thanks again for your article.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

The ethernet will be the least of your problems, it's a huge upgrade from the existing Pi 3 which is a great device, the USB/SD bus speed is the real limitation on the device.

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thomasbnt (27) · 7 years ago

Greeeat ! :D

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yuneidi (40) · 7 years ago

Good job

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bilalsj81 (39) · 7 years ago

😊 Thanks for sharing.

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vb-tech (25) · 7 years ago

Raspberry Pi's. They are such a innovative little thing. I have a raspberry pi, but one of the older versions and this beats it by a lot. The Pi3B sounds really good, with lots of new and improved features. Thanks for announcing it to the steemit community, i know that lots of tech heads would love this product.

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