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What are some cool projects that I can do with a 1st gen Raspberry Pi?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ceiron@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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  • dieTasse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am in the same situation, looking how to use my 1st pi. I am already using AdGuard, Nginx and home assistant on my pi4, so I am looking for something more niche but very cool 😀

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  • NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Simple html web server. Host your own website.

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  • DigDoug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you have a 3D printer that can’t connect to the internet, you could try Octoprint.

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    • suth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Might be worth a shot but unfortunately Octoprint recommends at least a Pi 3. I tried it myself on a 2B and had nonstop issues with print quality from stutters while the Pi was sending gcode to the printer. As soon as I swapped to a 4B the problems disappeared.

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  • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I took an old pi and threw a flight tracker on there. Now i have premium accounts on FR24, FlightAware, and ADS-B Exchange.

    I have a few other pis which run other stuff though, my favorite thing to do is install nginx proxy manager and tailscale, then use it as an entry point to my network (this was born out of my main server being a bit unstable, which i have since fixed but kept NPM off of it because the pi is pretty much set and forget)

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is thebflighttracker like an OS designed for adding accounts to or just a orogram?

      sorry for the stupid question, it sounds cool and I have no experience.

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      • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s a program that uses an SDR to pick up the signals broadcasted by planes (ADS-B) containing their flight information. Then the data gets uploaded to an aggregator (FR24, Flight Aware, ADS-B Exchange) that gives a global view of all planes in the sky.

        You can use the aggregators for free without uploading, but you get some perks for being a contributor. I just do it because it’s cool and I use the platforms for getting info on flights I’m taking (you can tell if your flight is gonna be delayed if the plane is delayed elsewhere for example).

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Octoprint if you own a 3d printer

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pi-Hole always tops my list as a cool project that has definite benefits and will still be in service after the new wears off. It’s been quite a while ago, but I built an Alexa with an RPI. That was kind of cool. Home Assistant on an RPI is pretty cool. In fact, there is a whole list of cool stuff to do with an RPI: pimylifeup.com/category/projects/ . There’s also an Awesome list for the RPI: github.com/thibmaek/awesome-raspberry-pi.

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    • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sweeeeeet. Thanks for sharing!

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      PiHole is becoming a bit heavy for my Zero W, which is based on the chip the original Pi series ran on. It’s the only thing the 0W runs, which is a bit worrying to me.

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      • ladfrombrad@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do you worry about that Zero being deauthed since it uses 2.4 only still?

        I ask as I’m having somewhat of a bit of lag / delay or something I need to look further into between my RPi5 / router which is using as its DNS provider (AdguardHome), and because I still use a 2.4GhZ camera (which has also been playing up recently…) got me thinking about having all the cams / Pi’s / SFF PC’s not only hard wired, but turning off the 2.4GhZ weefee altogether on the router due to Flippers and shit.

        tldr: should I care?

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  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Try RiscOS for a glimpse of a world most of us missed.

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You didn’t miss a whole lot. LOL Those first UI’s were clunky.

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  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Does picoreplayer work OK on the first gen boards?

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s got enough power for a retro game emulator.

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  • supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tor bridge/Snowflake , i2pd to help circumvent censorship on some countries

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  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was poking around the Raspberry imager utility and they had RISC OS, which is and old operating system that was apparently fairly popular in the UK, but I’d never heard of it in the US. I loaded it up on my Pi 1 and had fun exploring it. Not exactly useful, but cool to mess with: RISC OS

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  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Take a look at the Linuxserver Docker images. They curate a huge list of self hosted apps that is great to browse and look for ideas.

    That Pi is too old to handle any media tasks (like running a Jellyfin server), but for any low intensity duties it’s still perfectly usable.

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m just suggesting review their list of apps they support to get some ideas of what’s out there.

      Ahh my people. Another list searcher. LOL

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey! That was my taco! It’s been just like a taco to me!

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    An IRC server would work, but I think having to deal with 32bit ARM will be too annoying.

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  • nichtburningturtle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pi-hole for ad blocking.

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    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is it easy to set up SSL on a PiHole? I wanted to get Adguard home setup (similar to Pihole) but the complexity of setting up secure connections and me like, “yeah, nobody in my family is going to be able to fix this if someone happens when I’m not around”. 😂

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      • 413j0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I recommend setting it up with a let’s encrypt cert via tailscale, that way not only you get a proper cert for free without opening your pihole to the internet, but also you get a way to use it when you are not at home, but if you are using a raspberry pi 1 or any other pi from the SD card I recommend using Log2ram in order to preserve the SD card

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      • N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They even have a full tutorial on it here.

        However, if you’re going the self-signed certificate route, consider to make your own mini-CA with root-CA + intermediate CA added in your trust store on every device and all your servicrs behind a reverse proxy. The only thing you need to worry about is the certificate validity !

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  • a@91268476.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    @ceiron @selfhosted pihole or adguard for sure

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tons of typical self-hosted services, like vault warden, actual budget, etc.

    But for something that old, I’m thinking more along the lines of RC cars and other projects involving the GPIO. I’ll reserve my newer ones for self-hosting stuff, older stuff for things that don’t benefit much from extra processing power.

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  • gnash@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cups Print Server for usb printer

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    • ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wait, can I share a printer on my network that does not have a network card?!

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      • flightyhobler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes

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    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      that is so fucking cool and epic wtf how is this not more well known??

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      • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is common in the IT world. Printers are such painful devices and installing drivers on every Windows desktop just adds to the pain, but by doing this you don’t need to install drivers, as Linux can serve something that doesn’t need drivers to print to.

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      • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s very well-known, but used more by companies than consumers.

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    • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For any printer. You never know what it’s doing without a firewall solution. USB is always the safest option.

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  • tehWrapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Web based torrent box with a VPN configured.

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wonder how well that would run on a 700MHz ARM CPU with a maximum of 512 MB RAM…

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      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The VPN speeds will be throttled pretty substantially, and low ram will result in some instability seeding, but it should run. Hood thing about torrents is they’re built for unreliable.

        I’ve run a torrent box like described on pretty much every pi generation, and the pi4 was the first one where VPN speed was no longer the bottleneck.

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