Favorite use of raspberry pi?

I basically use one microsd for all retro games (nes/atari/etc) and another microsd to side load kodi. It does ok with kodi but my firetv is much better to handle it.

Im looking into other projects as well

Pi hole is the greatest... If you have people coming over with unrooted phones or iPhones it blows their minds

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Just watched a YouTube video of a series of blast gates in a dust collection system in a work shop, each controlled by little levers that were run back to an arduino. The guy was using a little keypad to automate the operation through the arduino. Pretty cool.

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Pi hole is the greatest... If you have people coming over with unrooted phones or iPhones it blows their minds

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Thank you for this..I'm going to do this tonight. My pie is just sitting around doing nothing.

I built my entire christmas lights/music sequence on an arduino and relay board. On a raspberry pi, I setup a small API that allows people to text a phone number that will automatically start the lights/music. It's pretty nerdy but whatever. The neighborhood likes it at least.

I would link a video but it's on my youtube channel and shows my name

This is the sign I had printed...

I'm using a handful of them at work right now, testing a security camera system. I'm running 12 IP cameras, and for a few months I had Zoneminder running on an old core2duo machine we had. It was basically running at 100% load for about 5 months before it keeled over, so I decided to use a few RPi3's this go 'round. Zoneminder is pretty neat in that you can run it on as many machines as you want, and just make them all connect to the same storage and database on the backend so they act as one large system. I'm currently using 5 RPi3's, which when counting the power supplies and SD cards cost about $225 total. I think I would be hard-pressed to put together or buy a used machine at that price to do the same work. It's probably not the absolute best bang for the buck for what I'm doing, but the added benefit of ease of upgrading by simply adding more Pi's puts it over the top for me.


The next thing I will probably do is use one as a home automation hub. Again, it probably won't be the best value strictly on price/features, but the open nature and flexibility of it makes it worth it IMO.