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Pi Day is March 14, for obvious reasons. In honor of the mathematically themed holiday, we have a list of some great Raspberry Pi projects that you can use with your iPhone. The tutorials below assume that you already have some working knowledge of how to build projects using Raspberry Pi. If you are new to the RPi community, head over to our guide to getting started.
- I’m thinking about either an Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or a FreeSoC. Changes are that I’ll use the Pi, as long as there’s a good working Android interface for it. I want to tie together a custom LED kit for all external lights (minus headlights), so I can have audio visualizations and custom light flash patterns.
- Unlock Mac OS X System Preferences: So simple and fastUnlock all your System PreferencesThis i found on a google search, not my idea. 1979 Merlin Pi High Quality Camera by MisterM in Raspberry Pi. 19 2.6K LEDs and Lighting Class. 37,311 Enrolled. Pocket-Sized Speed Challenge. Thank you for helping me hack my computer!
Here are our favorite Raspberry Pi projects that incorporate using your iPhone or iPad.
Raspberry Pi Forums member DarkTherapy used Siri and, you guessed it, a Raspberry Pi, to hack his iPhone into a garage door opener. Using SiriProxy and WiringPi, he set up the Raspberry Pi to turn a relay connected to his automatic garage door system on and off via the GPIO pins. Nov 17, 2017 EFI Chip Free Removal Unlock Tool (30 pins) Locate the power supply pin of EFI chip. Solder the power supply wire. Locate the pin 1 of SAM socket on the logic board. Then, buckle the unlock tool correspondingly. Connect with the programmer and then supply power to EFI chip at 3.3V from DC Power Supply. Connect the unlock tool with PC.
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Thanks to Apple's HomeKit, you can setup connected home devices, like lighting, locks, and thermostats to your iPhone and ask Siri to activate them for you. This tutorial lets you use the Raspberry Pi as a relay for Philips Hue lights for some extra DIY fun. Once connected, you can ask Siri to turn on your various connected devices that are hooked up to the RPi.
Siri-enabled temperature sensor using Raspberry Pi
This project also uses Apple's HomeKit app, but when you set up a digital temperature sensor module, you can have it transfer data from your Raspberry Pi to your iPhone. Then, ask Siri to tell you the temperature in the room where the sensor is set up and you'll get an accurate reading.
Make any smart device HomeKit supported with Homebridge
Homebridge for Raspberry Pi is an iPhone and iPad app that makes it possible for you to turn a Raspberry Pi into a HomeKit supported hub that works with any smart device, including ones that don't originally support HomeKit. This tutorial is not for a specific project, but it is a simple, detailed guide for setting up Homebridge on your Raspberry Pi so it can communicate with your iPhone and smart devices.
R-PiAlerts Wi-Fi security system
This project is great for creating an outdoor security system that will alert you when something happens around the perimeter of your house. Using two Raspberry Pi units, you can set one up as a camera and the other as a notification device. Using iOS and macOS compatible software, you can get a notification sent to you, and then check to see if the movement is something you should be concerned with, or just a cat trying to find a warm place to hang out.
iPad as a Raspberry Pi monitor
The Raspberry Pi is a pretty incredible little computer. But, many of the projects you need require some sort of monitor in order to get the device up and running with proper software and coding. With this VNC viewer project, you can turn your iPad (or even your iPhone) into a monitor for your Pi, so you can take care of projects without needing to set up your PC monitor (or TV set) with it.
Network-wide ad blocker
We're all familiar with the advertisement issues facing our daily web browsing experience. If ads were a little more subdued, we wouldn't mind them so much. But, some websites take it to a whole new level. Instead of installing an ad blocker to each of your devices individually, you can use a Raspberry Pi to create a network-wide ad blocker at the router level. It's important to remember that advertising is how websites make enough money to stay afloat. We recommend you whitelist sites you visit regularly to help them keep the lights on.
Using Amazon Echo with Siri HomeKit
Excited about Amazon Echo, but want it to work with Siri instead? Well, one DIY gadget builder figured out how to hack Alexa and switch her out with Apple's personal assistant instead. It is a complicated project that probably takes more time than justifies the result, but if you are a hardcore hacker, you'll get a kick out of getting Siri to do Alexia's work.
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Updated March 2020: Added new great Raspberry Pi projects you can create with the help of your iPhone or iPad.
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Do you really want to let your laptop out of your sight? Samy Kamkar’s latest “applied hack” will make you queasy about what can be done to you and your laptop even if you password-protect it when you leave for lunch.
You might remember Kamkar from our coverage of his 2015 garage door hack using a Mattel Radica Girltech IM-ME texting toy, or his DIY combination lock-picking robot, printable on your 3D printer. Or, back in the day, from his MySpace worm that grabbed 1 million friends, a felony conviction, 90 days of community service and three years’ probation.
For many, though, his latest hack might be the most troubling of all: it shows just how much havoc can be wrought with physical access to a USB port. All it takes, Kamkar demonstrates, is a $5 (£4) Raspberry Pi Zero board running Linux and his own freely available software.
Kamkar’s “PoisonTap” hack is as elegant as it’s frightening. As Wired puts it:
Instead of exploiting any glaring security flaw in a single piece of software, PoisonTap pulls off its attack through a series of more subtle design issues that are present in virtually every operating system and web browser, making the attack that much harder to protect against.
You can walk through the attack yourself with Kamkar’s niftily produced YouTube video, but here’s a quick overview. Plug the board into a USB port via a Micro-USB cable, and it tells your computer it’s an Ethernet device running over USB. Windows and OSX happily load it and send it a DHCP request.
PoisonTap answers with a DHCP response “crafted to tell the machine that the entire IPv4 space (0.0.0.0 – 255.255.255.255) is part of PoisonTap’s local network”. Your computer thinks it’s dealing with local LAN traffic – which it automatically prioritizes over internet traffic. The result: in moments, you’ve given PoisonTap temporary control over all internet traffic to and from your computer.
Now, says Kamkar, “it siphons and stores all HTTP cookies for the top 1 million websites… exposes the internal router to the attacker, making it accessible remotely… [and] installs a web-based backdoor in HTTP cache for hundreds of thousands of domains”.
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As TechCrunch points out, while you’re outside downing your Starbucks latte, “pre-loaded items like analytics and ads will [still] be active, and as soon as one of them sends an HTTP request – BAM, PoisonTap responds with a barrage of data-caching malicious iframes for the top million Alexa sites”.
Now, it also starts exfiltrating your cookies. But all this is just the beginning of PoisonTap’s mischief. It cache-poisons the domains it connects with, and force-caches a websocket-based backdoor to the attacker’s command-and-control server. Of course, attackers can now execute their own JavaScript code through your browser.
By now, you’re well and truly pwned. Kamkar’s device uses malicious iframes to earn same-origin rights on domains of interest. Now it can use your own cookies to make requests, and view the responses. It then performs a persistent DNS rebinding attack to create another backdoor into your router, compromising your network.
All this typically happens in a minute or less. The attacker can then grab his five-dollar PoisonTap and wander away. With the device no longer present, malicious IP addresses are automatically redirected to the attacker’s remote server of choice.
So, what can you do about all this? If you’re running a webserver, Kamkar says, protect your users by requiring HTTPS and using the Secure flag on all cookies, so they can’t leak into insecure HTTP traffic.
If you’re running a client, and you’re not ready to cement your USB ports shut? Closing browsers will help; so too, using your laptop’s hibernation or sleep function. Best of all: take your laptop with you, or lock it in a drawer. Yeah, that’s what the world is coming to.