I have a rainwater tank in my garden and I’m a tinkerer, so I decided to do some water level monitoring. For this I used a Raspberry Pi Pico W, which is small, cheap and has integrated Wi-Fi.
Who could resist building their own gaming console? I decided to build an Arcade Cabinet, in the “tabletop” version, also known as a Bartop. I watched several American videos (they all do it the same way) and adapted it a bit for Czech conditions and my own needs (no nail gun, no joysticks, no rubber around the edges). Finally, I found a reasonable use for my Raspberry Pi 3A, which was “lying around in a drawer”. All I had to do was install Retropie on it. I had already done that in the past, but the whole point is to have your own “hardware”, or better yet, a box.
In our house, we have underfloor heating controlled by a Tecomat box, which opens and closes valves based on the temperature in each room and the set target temperature, allowing hot water to flow into each room separately.
Not all games are available on Xbox, so every gamer surely has Steam. However, sitting in front of a PC may not be comfortable, and while you can connect your laptop to your TV via HDMI, it’s not convenient. What if your desktop is in another room?
I built my weather station a few years ago, but only now do I dare to write an article about it. The weather station is open source, but there is no documentation or anything like that. You can find it on GitHub for inspiration. It’s really just a project for fun.
Another use for the Raspberry Pi microcomputer can be a retro gaming console. What we will need:
We have already shown how to measure the temperature of the processor and receive email notifications when the temperature exceeds a certain threshold.
If you use Raspberry Pi as a server, turning it into a torrent client/server is a great idea - it’s always online, so you can download day and night.
You don’t want your Raspberry Pi to catch fire, do you?
Today we will show you how to create a shared disk in your local network. We will use Raspberry Pi and Samba software for this purpose.
Today we will show you how to make a media server in your local network. We will use Raspberry Pi and MiniDLNA software for this purpose.
Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer that can be used for many things. We will show you how to build your own web server on it. It won’t have any graphical interface, we will control it like proper nerds through the command line.