Ideas for a cool techie/spare time project

azibux1

azibux1

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Hi all

Looking for something 'cool' and 'techy' to do in spare time... Have a good amount of DIY knowledge and better-than-average (I'd say) electronics knowledge / interest

Just not sure what to make/build! Things like arcades / ripping apart a laptop to make a huge digital photoframe are all cool but don't interest me that much... Looking for any inspiration of cool, small projects if anyone has any?? :D

Looked in the show us your creative stuff thread but don't have space/time for anything as serious as the car racing rig/sim... despite how cool it is :D
 
Have a look around the internet at things people are doing with the Raspberry Pi and Arduino platforms - quite a lot of potential for neat little projects there.
 
Rroff said:
Have a look around the internet at things people are doing with the Raspberry Pi and Arduino platforms - quite a lot of potential for neat little projects there.
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Will do! :) That reminds me I was somewhat planning / messing with an Arduino to make a pond water sensor in case the level drops / it leaks so I get an email straight away... But it didn't seem too accurate/reliable... may look into that again :)
 
azibux1 said:
Hi all

Looking for something 'cool' and 'techy' to do in spare time...
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Hack TalkTalk's customer database. It seems to be what everyone else does in their spare time. It's 2017 and it hasn't been hacked and sold yet this year - the clock is ticking!

EDIT: Don't feel bad about consequences, btw. Dido Harding the CEO has a lot of friends who are senior in the Tory party, so no matter how many times they've been hacked, her job is secure.
 
tres said:
Rasberry Pi Zero's are back in stock

https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero?variant=14062715972

Worth a £4 play!
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Decent price! Will check out some possible projects... may not be powerful enough for the smart mirror thing

h4rm0ny said:
Hack TalkTalk's customer database. It seems to be what everyone else does in their spare time. It's 2017 and it hasn't been hacked and sold yet this year - the clock is ticking!

EDIT: Don't feel bad about consequences, btw. Dido Harding the CEO has a lot of friends who are senior in the Tory party, so no matter how many times they've been hacked, her job is secure.
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LOL :D
 
I think the smart mirror idea is GO! :D

The glass itself is around £66, plus parts/wood (I already have a Pi and probably an old monitor kicking around)
 
semi-pro waster said:
You could build a Nixie clock? Kits are available or you could try and source all the materials yourself but I don't know if it's the sort of thing you're looking for.
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It's cool, but smart mirror seems more my kind of thing

Will have a look and see where it can go at home based on the fact it will need/want the wire being hidden well :)

Will probably try all the bits just on the desk first and get all the code and everything working to how I like before buying anything new at the moment though
 
azibux1 said:
It's cool, but smart mirror seems more my kind of thing

Will have a look and see where it can go at home based on the fact it will need/want the wire being hidden well :)

Will probably try all the bits just on the desk first and get all the code and everything working to how I like before buying anything new at the moment though
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Any way of getting it hooked up to Amazon's Echo so you can tell it what to display? I have no idea if that's feasible at all but if the API's exist then it would be interesting.
 
An ultrasonic rangefinder, we made one at Uni years ago, from actually printing the circuit boards to testing all the waveforms at various junctions on the board.
 
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