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What Will You Do With Your New Raspberry Pi 3?

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spannerspencer over 10 years ago
imageNEW! Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
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So, now that the Raspberry Pi 3 is live and among us, the most obvious question is what are you going to do with it?image


Got any cool project ideas that tie in neatly with its new connectivity functions? Or maybe all those extra horses beneath its silicon hood are what you need?

 

Tell us all about your plans for the Raspberry Pi 3!

 

And if you're looking for inspiration...

PIK3A: The Raspberry Pi 3 IKEA Retro Gaming Table

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  • jack.chaney56
    jack.chaney56 over 10 years ago in reply to clem57

    Already commented on the Birthday page, if this thing is the upgrade I'm expecting, I will swear off PCs for any home systems.

     

    GreatNice work!

    Jack

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  • DAB
    DAB over 10 years ago

    With that amount of CPU power, I could use it for image processing and analysis for my research projects.

     

    I will be looking for someone to port OpenCV onto it so that I can process the images.

     

    DAB

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  • gpolder
    gpolder over 10 years ago in reply to DAB

    great idea!

     

    (Install OpenCV and Python on your Raspberry Pi 2 and B+ - PyImageSearch )

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  • jack.chaney56
    jack.chaney56 over 10 years ago in reply to DAB

    Just as a kind prodding...

     

    The word "open" in OpenCV refers to open source. It should be possible to go to the site (probably via SourceForge) and get a source copy and then do a build on the Pi. Very often, it is done with a make; make install; operation.  I'm pretty sure the GCC compiler is already included in the Raspbian installation.

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  • uscdadnyc
    uscdadnyc over 10 years ago in reply to jack.chaney56

    To DAB:

    WRT your research project [Image processing/analysis], why OpenCV? And not something like MatLab? Aside from the $$$ issue. If it is an Educational Institution sponsored Project ? would your choice of using OpenCV be the same?

     

    USCDADNYC (NY NY USA)

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  • justiciero24
    justiciero24 over 10 years ago

    Finally my domotic project will be alive... now all the nice features I wanted to implemented will be possible and easy to set up with this new Raspberry Pi. Smart home here we go! image

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  • stevenyy
    stevenyy over 10 years ago

    Where can I find information and details on programming BLE on Raspian for Pi 3, preferably in Python?

     

    Thanks

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 10 years ago in reply to stevenyy

    Whoa partner! The driver code for the BLE is not ready in Raspbian according to fine print.

    Clem

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  • jack.chaney56
    jack.chaney56 over 10 years ago in reply to stevenyy

    Have you tried

    RPi Bluetooth LE - eLinux.org

    yet?  Seems to have good background info and some programming tips in Python.

     

    Jack

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  • DAB
    DAB over 10 years ago in reply to uscdadnyc

    Cost and capability drive most of my decisions.

    I am currently doing my own research, though it would be nice if I could get some university sponsorship.

     

    I have seen Matlab used for image processing and it is quite capable, but I have also seen that it takes a fair amount of time to learn and use effectively.

     

    I believe that OpenCV is both capable and being free is a very good place to start.

     

    If there was a better solution, I would certainly look into it.

     

    DAB

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