Hackers are buzzing with ideas from Pi-powered arcade machines and drones to the home automation and low-cost tablets. 10 coolest uses for the Raspberry Pi article tells that TechRepublic has delved into the Raspbery Pi’s developer forums, and here’s our round-up of the best ideas so far, ranging from the eminently achievable to the massively ambitious. You can use your Raspberry Pi for example as media streamer, arcade machine, tablet computer, robot controller and home automation controller. Rasberry Pi homepage offers also some more interesting projects like Retro games and a retro joystick.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-transforms-old-radio-into-audiophile-grade-network-music-streamer
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.slashgear.com/1520189/raspberry-pi-bedroom-projects/
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Raspberry Drive
Folkert van Heusden updated an older car’s infotainment system using a Raspberry Pi Zero to overcome some pesky music storage limitations.
https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-drive-9a42df04a8ec
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/09/create-virtual-usb-sticks-with-a-raspberry-pi-zero/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/24/a-dial-phone-sips-asterisk/
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Openterface Mini-KVM: Laptop as a KVM Console
https://hackaday.io/project/195336-openterface-mini-kvm-laptop-as-a-kvm-console
Control another computer using your laptop via USB and HDMI for seamless operation and rapid troubleshooting.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/17/raspberry-pi-scanner-digitizes-on-the-cheap/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/04/22/louder-raspberry-pi-open-source-home-media-center-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-ti-tas5805m-dac/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Raspberry Pi is looking to make it easier to gain secure access to your single-board computers, wherever you may be — using Raspberry Pi Connect, available in public beta form today, in the web browser of your choice.
Raspberry Pi Solves Remote Headless Connection Headaches with the Browser-Based Raspberry Pi Connect
Secure peer-to-peer system needs no firewall faffing nor the installation of special VNC clients — just your existing web browser.
https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-solves-remote-headless-connection-headaches-with-the-browser-based-raspberry-pi-connect-d65ca044f423?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1goP6nrZhqjQSz1WtI6XSfT2JZlagDec-nzm86DkE3xR0c99gwlmAmrls_aem_ATESpeHW6h074CoFeWxU0StgiJ89G1BsUrxuIp4oKsQ7LXlU-FGWO0NMl-xXptvvXzLyQAm7EVQYpft83qiDEMxr
Raspberry Pi is looking to make it easier to gain secure access to your single-board computers, wherever you may be — using Raspberry Pi Connect, available in public beta form today, in the web browser of your choice.
“It’s often extremely useful to be able to access your Raspberry Pi’s desktop remotely. There are a number of technologies which can be used to do this, including VNC, and of course the X protocol itself,” says Raspberry Pi’s Gordon Hollingworth.
Raspberry Pi Connect aims to deliver a solution to two separate-but-related problems. The first is accessing a graphical desktop session on a headless or remote Raspberry Pi, which normally needs the user to install a VNC client — and, in the case of Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm and its switch to Wayland, only specific VNC clients are supported. The second is accessing a Raspberry Pi that isn’t on a local network without exposing it to the world at large.
The first problem is solved by Raspberry Pi Connect running a compatible VNC client entirely in-browser, meaning no special software needs to be installed. The second is handled using a peer-to-peer connectivity system, which doesn’t need holes to be poked in a user’s firewall — taking the same approach as popular browser-based videoconferencing clients to connect you to your Raspberry Pi.
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