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David Hunt
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David Hunt writes www.DavidHunt.ie, a personal blog at davidhunt.ie about hardware and programming. Since 2011, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi Based Smartphone”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link this blog's Raspberry Pi projects: a Pi-based smartphone (PiPhone), a Pi Zero webcam setup, home InfiniBand networking and a Raspberry Pi 2 benchmark. Comments cite them without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi Based Smartphone9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-04-25
- Raspberry Pi HQ Camera as USB Webcam3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-06
What Hacker News says?
http://www.davidhunt.ie/raspberry-pi-zero-with-pi-camera-as-... https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-stream-video-with-raspberry-p...
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on “eBay removing Raspberry Pi listings as they “encourage infringement””Submitted Camera Pi – DSLR Camera with Embedded Computer as a story · 106 points
HN discussionOne of these is what I'd go for. Build the phone out of a raspberry pi. https://hackaday.io/project/19035-zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-s... http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph...
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on “Librem 5 Phone Funded”Submitted PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi Based Smartphone as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt's not too difficult to do yourself. http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph...
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on “Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?”Submitted Raspberry Pi HQ Camera as USB Webcam as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWell how about the PiPhone? :P http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph...
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on “Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?”Submitted Macro Pi – Focus Stacking Using Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDirect link: http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph...
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on “PiPhone – A Raspberry-Pi-based Smartphone”Submitted Macro Pi – Focus Stacking using Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSurprisingly so, I use uv4l¹ for capturing 720p60 and 1080p30 and it has worked well, though I don't know if this method would work in your use case, since all it gives is a raw h264 stream over http, and a browser preview into it. ¹ http://www.davidhunt.ie/raspberry-pi-high-quality-camera-set...
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on “Raspberry Pi Webcam”Submitted Lapse Pi – Motorised Time-lapse Rail with Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've always had an iPhone (since 3g) and recently picked up an Android phone for testing, and played with that. While I can't really complain about either phone, all I've really wanted is Linux on my phone. This is the phone I want. The appeal of Linux on the phone is too much for me. As long as it can make and receive calls and somehow deal with SMS, I can take care of the rest. I've entertained the idea of buildin…
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on “Librem 5 Docs”Submitted Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone Black, Intel Edison – Benchmarked as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhere's a couple of links discussing how to set up and working through the issues. http://www.davidhunt.ie/raspberry-pi-zero-with-pi-camera-as-... https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=148361
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on “V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB”Submitted PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi based Smartphone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhat would be the price you and the GP be willing to pay for this ? What screen size do you expect ? I have been thinking about this lately - about building one for myself. I don't like andriod/ios smartphones and every time my phone breaks down for some non-replaceable component, I have to hunt for a new phone which isn't either. Something similar to this - http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smart…
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on “Old Smartphones Are a Problem for Apple and Samsung”Would be interesting to see a comparison/benchmark similar to: http://www.davidhunt.ie/raspberry-pi-2-benchmarked/
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on “Qualcomm Snapdragon, DragonBoard 410c Fire Up at World Maker Faire”You can do InfiniBand on the desktop, but it necessarily doesn't give the performance you might be expecting. I think I read about this on HN originally... http://www.davidhunt.ie/infiniband-at-home-10gb-networking-o... Edit: From the edit on the follow-up post about getting it working on Ubuntu: >Note: iperf maxed out at 1.2 gbps, and on the current linux install, I couldnt get netperf client working at all. netser…
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on “Will We Ever See InfiniBand in Desktop Computers?”And the real content is here: http://davidhunt.ie/wp/?p=232 Not sure what the above blog post adds to this, if anything.
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on “InfiniBand for the Home in Less Than $150 (10Gb Networking on the Cheap) ”On a similar wavelength there's the rasberry pi phone: http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph... .
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on “Ask HN: Are there any programmable 'feature' phones?”
