awesome-raspberry-pi
đź“ť A curated list of awesome Raspberry Pi tools, projects, images and resources
https://github.com/thibmaek/awesome-raspberry-pi
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Models
- Raspberry Pi 5
- Raspberry Pi Pico
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
- Raspberry Pi Pico W
- Raspberry Pi 1, Model A+
- Raspberry Pi 2, Model B
- Raspberry Pi 1, Model B+
- Raspberry Pi Zero
- Raspberry Pi 3, Model B
- Raspberry Pi Zero W
- Raspberry Pi 3, Model B+
- Raspberry Pi 3, Model A+
- Raspberry Pi 4, Model B
- Raspberry Pi 400
- Raspberry Pi Pico 2
- Raspberry Pi 500
- Raspberry Pi 500+
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OS Images
- Alpine Linux - Security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.
- Arch Linux ARM - Lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.
- Armbian - A base operating system platform for single board computers (SBCs) that other projects can trust to build upon.
- Channels DVR Server - Custom image for Channels DVR Server which provides a whole home DVR system.
- Fedora - Linux Fedora distribution built for the Pi. 
- FreeBSD - FreeBSD is an advanced computer operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.
- Gentoo - Gentoo Stage 3 tarball for Raspberry Pi.
- KonstaKANG - Unofficial LineageOS and AOSP builds for Raspberry Pi. 
- LibreELEC - Just enough OS for Kodi
- Minibian - Minimal Raspbian (lighter than Jessie Lite).
- NetBSD - NetBSD is a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system.
- OpenHABian - A preconfigured version of the OpenHAB home automation software. 
- OpenMediaVault - OpenMediaVault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux containing services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. 
- openSUSE - openSUSE is a major Linux distribution that has images based for its stable release Leap and rolling release Tumbleweed. Images can be found for many of the Pis, including the [Raspberry Pi 3](https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi3) and [Raspberry Pi 4](https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi4).
- OpenWRT - OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices for network management.
- OSMC - Open Source Media Centre, based on Kodi.
- Raspbian - Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware.
- RetroPie - Retro-gaming on the Raspberry Pi.
- Risc OS - Non-Linux OS originated from the group that developed the ARM microprocessor.
- Twister OS - Skinned version of Raspberry Pi OS with preinstalled apps like box86 and Retropie to introduce noobs to Linux and Raspberry Pi. 
- Ubuntu MATE - Ubuntu distribution for the Raspberry Pi based on MATE desktop. 
- moOde - The moOde audio player acts as an Audiophile streamer with DLNS, Spotify Connect and AirPlay support for old receivers.  
- NOOBS - New Out Of the Box Software, an easy OS installer for beginners.
- Raspberry Pi OS - The official supported Raspberry Pi OS (previously called "Raspbian"), based on Debian and available as a lite version.
- DietPi - Minimal image designed to fit on a 2GB SD card, with tons of configurable settings and scripts.
- Mainsail OS - A distribution for 3D Printers that includes everything to get started with Klipper Firmware and Mainsail.
- NextCloudPi - Nextcloud ready image based on Raspbian. Features Nextcloud 11 running on Raspbian 8, with PHP 7 and HTTP2 enabled Apache server.
- motionEyeOS - Linux distribution that turns a single-board computer into a video surveillance system.
- PiNet - System to manage Raspberry Pi classrooms.
- PirateBox - Anonymous offline mobile file-sharing and communications system.
- RasComm RaspberryPi MorseCode Translator - RasComm is a communication device that translates plain text into Morse code (IMC) visually or audibly.
- RasPlex - Plex client for the Raspberry Pi.
- RuneAudio - Free and open source OS that turns embedded hardware into Hi-Fi music players.
- Ubuntu Core - Official (minimal) Ubuntu distribution for IoT. Supports Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. 
- HypriotOS - Minimal Debian-based operating system, optimized to run Docker.
- DroneBridge - A WifiBroadcast extension to make for a real alternative to DJI Lightbridge and other similar systems. 
- chilipie-kiosk - Image which boots directly into full-screen Chrome, perfect for dashboards and build monitors. 
- EZ-WifiBroadcast - Affordable Wireless Digital HD Video Transmission made easy.  
- GlowBarn OS - Buildroot-based Linux distribution for paranormal research with EMF sensors, environmental monitoring, web dashboard and automated data logging. 
- Ubuntu Desktop - Ubuntu Desktop distribution for the Raspberry Pi. Supports Raspberry Pi 4 and 5.
- Ubuntu Server - Ubuntu Server distribution for the Raspberry Pi. Supports Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. 
- Anthias - The world's most popular open source digital signage project.
- HamPi - Formerly known as W3DJS Raspberry Pi for Ham Radio.
- PIrateRF - Turns a Raspberry Pi Zero W into a portable, browser-controlled RF transmitter with its own WiFi hotspot, supporting a dozen modes including FM broadcast, FT8, RTTY, POCSAG, and Morse. 
- Debian - Unofficial Debian image for Raspberry Pi (maintained by a Debian Developer).
- FreedomBox - FreedomBox is a private home server for non-experts. 
- Gladys Assistant - Gladys, a privacy-first, open-source home assistant. 
- Kali Linux - Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking Linux distro for ARM devices.
- Recalbox - Drag & drop light-weight retro-gaming and media center on the Raspberry Pi.
- Rocket Show - Play synced backing tracks, videos and DMX light-sequences live on stage. 
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Projects
- BeeMonitor - Honey beehive monitoring project.
- Building Timelapse with Resin - Remotely deploying timelapse camera using Docker, Resin, and 3G internet.
- Chromebook Charger Kiosk - Timed charging station for students using Chromebooks at school.
- DIY USB Rubber Ducky - Raspberry Pi Zero Rubber Ducky recognized as a USB HID by just about anything with a USB port, thus allowing you to run custom scripts as if it were a keyboard. 
- FistBump BLE Edition - WPA Hash Grabbing Bluetooth Peripheral / Android App.
- FruitNanny - Baby monitor including custom case, server, and client source code. 
- Jasper - Flexible open source personal assistant.
- Mini OONTZ - 3D printed mini MIDI controller.
- Nerves Project - Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir.
- Network Presence Detector - Setup a Pi Zero to scan for devices on a WiFi network and use that to determine who is "home".
- Pi-hole - Black hole for internet ads.
- PiAware - Live flight tracking using a Raspberry Pi.
- Power Sniffing Strip - Enclosure in a power strip, sniffing network data.
- Project MyHouse - Smart Doll House with Gesture Recognition, using Raspberry Pi 3 or Pi Zero and PSMove motion controller.
- Raspberry Pi Erlang Cluster - Erlang cluster on a Raspberry Pi 2.
- RaspiBolt - Beginner’s Guide to ️⚡Lightning️⚡ on a Raspberry Pi.
- Receiving GOES-16 Images on a Raspberry Pi - An advanced project to receive weather imagery from the GOES-16 satellite using software defined radio (SDR).
- RPi-eth-display - Open source DisplayLink alternative, ethernet to HDMI adapter.
- StreamPi - A robust alternative to the Elgato Stream Deck, that can launch apps, scripts, websites and control applications like OBS.
- Voice Kit - AIY Voice Kit from Google, to build a standalone voice recognition system using the Google Assistant, or add voice recognition and natural language processing to your Raspberry Pi-based projects.
- Zelda Home Automation - Home automation based on sound recognition from notes played on an ocarina.
- Harry Potter and the real life Daily Prophet - Display mimicking the Daily Prophet from Harry Potter using a 7" Raspberry Pi display.
- Magic Mirror - The original open source modular smart mirror platform. 
- AdGuard Home - DNS relay station with ad/tracker/other blocking, IP address redirections, and DNS-over-HTTPS.
- Bitcoin Tracker - A Physical Dashboard that displays Bitcoin stats in real time.  
- Building a Ceph Cluster on Raspberry Pi - Highly redundant and low power usage RADOS home storage solution.
- Circle - A C++ bare metal environment for Raspberry Pi.
- clockOS - simple smart desktop clock using a Raspberry Pi display.
- CookCLI - Turn your Raspberry Pi into a self-hosted recipe server. Manage recipes in plain-text Cooklang format with web UI, shopping lists, and meal planning.
- CocktailTDI - Another cocktail machine (powered by Raspberry Pi 4, Golang, a pneumatic pump and valves).
- Coder for Raspberry Pi - A open source project by Googlers to turn a Raspberry Pi into a simple, tiny, personal web server and web-based development environment.
- Display_Lib_RPI - A shared installable C++ Library to connect various electronic displays to Raspberry Pi single board computers.
- DIY Arcade Machine - A retro style arcade machine, based on a Raspberry Pi Pico, a Hub75 LED matrix and some other stuff (Wii Nunchucks, 3D printed parts, ...)
- docsis-cable-load-monitor - Tool to monitor downstream load on DOCSIS cable networks.
- Drumbooth controller with touch interface - Project using Java, JavaFX, Pi4J and Arduino to control 8 relays and LED strips.
- Gaussmeter - Project utilizing a Raspberry Pi Zero W, WS2812B Leds and the Tesla API to collect and display a Tesla's status. 
- Haven - Host a private blog on your Rasperry Pi instead of using Facebook.
- Hearing aid prototoype - A Raspberry Pi powered prototype of a hearing aid. 
- Internet Chronometer - Turn your Raspberry Pi in to an Internet Chronometer.
- Kubernetes on ARM - Get your ARM device up and running Kubernetes in less than ten minutes.
- Lomorage - Private photo cloud host on Raspberry Pi, with Android/iOS/Web client.
- Looper/synth/drum thing - Sequencer/Drumpad, like Native Instruments' Maschine for the Pi.
- NALIVATOR-9000 - Robot bartender for making cocktails with Telegram-bot interface and speech synthesis on Golang.
- Occu-Pi - Controller software for the Occu-pi, a totally awesome bathroom door sensor.
- pi_payments - Payment module based on RFID.
- Pi-KVM - DIY KVM over IP to manage remote computers via Web UI or VNC with FullHD video, mouse, virtual drive, IPMI, Wake-on-LAN and many other things.
- pi-timolo - Remote Headless multi feature PiCamera Operation from Rclone Remote Storage Service and More.
- PiClock - Fancy Clock built around a monitor and a Raspberry Pi.
- PiFanTuner - CPU-fan-tuner daemon, just enables your fan as necessary. 
- PiFmRds - FM-RDS transmitter using a Raspberry Pi.
- PiScan - Makeshift Amazon Dash orders using a Raspberry PI + EAN scanner.
- PoisonTap - Exploits locked/password protected computers over USB, drops persistent WebSocket-based backdoor, exposes internal router, and siphons cookies using Raspberry Pi Zero & Node.js. 
- Raspberry Pi Dashboard - Full-featured web-based dashboard interface to inspect and manage Raspberry Pi hardware and software, with no extra software required.
- Raspberry PI Hadoop Cluster - Big Data cluster running on the Raspberry Pi.
- Raspberry Pi Setup - ⚡ Quickly setup my Raspberry Pi.
- RaspiBlitz - Fastest and cheapest way to get your own Lightning Node running.
- Relayboard Control - A Qt application to connect a Waveshare 8-channel relay board to an MQTT server.
- RGB-LED-Matrix - A 128x128 Pixel RGB LED Matrix to display images, animations, conways game of life and other stuff.
- RPi Motor Library - Python 3 library to connect various motors & servos to the Pi.
- RPI tempmon - CPU GPU temperature monitor with various functions such as LED GPIO, Graph output, email, alarm limit, notifications and logging.
- SecPi - Raspberry Pi based home alarm system.
- Smart Mirror - Voice controlled smart mirror with IoT integration. 
- Sonus - Node.js voice control for your Pi (and everything else) with customizable offline hotword detection.
- speed-camera - Object Motion Tracking uses python, openCV, USB Cam or picamera module to record speed data.
- Stratux - Open source ADS-B receiver which feeds weather, traffic, GPS, and AHRS data to electronic flight bag software via wifi.
- TeslaCam - Project utilizing a Raspberry Pi Zero W for USB Mass storage emulation and a PiJuice to collect and archive TeslaCam video. 
- USB Proxy - A USB man-in-the-middle project that allow users to monitor and modify USB packets flow between host and device.
- Vinyl Shelf Finder - Uses a tilt & pan laser to find a record in a record collection.
- Waves - Transforming the transience of the spoken word into something concrete and physical through a microphone, waveform and thermal printer.
- Wordpress using Docker - Run a Wordpress site in containers with dynamic DNS.
- Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone.
- Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi’s - Showcase for the always on, fault tolerant nature of Cassandra using a Raspberry Pi cluster board.
- PiE-Ink - E-ink nametag display running on a Pi Zero. 
- CocktailMaker - An advanced cocktail making machine that can be controlled via browser and touchscreen.
- Lumos - Smart Lamp for Better Sleep.  
- Ceil - Auto-provisioned RPi cluster running K8S on bare-metal. 
- P4wnP1 - P4wnP1 is a highly customizable USB attack platform, based on a low cost Raspberry Pi Zero or Raspberry Pi Zero W (required for HID backdoor). 
- TelePi - Telepi allows you to monitor and control your Raspberry Pi via Telegram featuring file downloads, system monitoring, network insights, speed tests, and the ability to open web tunnels.
- Whispering Mirror - Interactive soundart installation using the Hifiberry DAC.
- ble-scale-sync - Reads BLE smart scales (23 brands) via built-in Bluetooth, calculates body composition, and exports to Garmin Connect, MQTT/Home Assistant, InfluxDB, and more. [Website](https://blescalesync.dev).
- Cama-Camel Pack - A home-based irrigation system for efficient plant care using IoT.
- HookProbe - AI-native intrusion detection system with eBPF/XDP packet filtering and ML threat classification. Processes 8.8M+ security events on a Pi 5.
- idle-less - Docker-based nginx reverse proxy that wakes sleeping servers via Wake-on-LAN, ideal for energy-saving Raspberry Pi homelabs.
- Raspberry Pi Telegram Bot - Remotely control your Raspberry Pi using Telegram, with support for GPIO, system commands, custom modules, and real-time interaction.
- PiSpot-Show - WiFi voucher display system with weather integration and PiJuice battery management. 
- PiSpot Watch - Wrist-wearable Pi Zero smartwatch with e-ink display that generates Wi-Fi voucher codes on demand via button press. 
- Ultimate DNS Shield - Self-hosted recursive DNS server using Pi-hole, Unbound and Docker on Raspberry Pi 4.
- NanoBot AI Chat Robot - Raspberry Pi powered AI chat robot, ideal for education and teaching assistance.
- DCS-BIOS - Exports DCS World cockpit data (switches, lights, displays) over serial/UDP to Arduino, ESP32, or Raspberry Pi for physical panel builds.
- RustChain - Proof-of-Antiquity blockchain that rewards vintage and edge hardware including Raspberry Pi for mining. DePIN infrastructure for IoT devices.
- Secluso - A private-by-default Raspberry Pi home security camera that uses end-to-end encryption. Supports Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. 
- BlackRoad OS - Self-hosted edge AI operating system running 52 TOPS of inference on Raspberry Pi 5 clusters with Hailo-8 accelerators, WireGuard mesh networking, and self-healing automation.
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Resources
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Articles
- 10 Years of Raspberry Pi - collections on 10 Years of Raspberry Pi, showcasing the most popular libraries across hobbyist uses cases, home automation, IoT, OS and utilities.
- Raspberry Pi A to Z List - Comprehensive list with links to common questions & pitfalls.
- The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Security Guide - Extensive guide on security best practices for the Pi ie. exposed to the internet.
- Raspberry Pi Beginners - Guide to setup the Raspberry Pi for beginners.
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Books
- Control Your Home with Raspberry Pi - Teaches you how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a secure, modular, open source and self-hosted home automation gateway with Docker Compose, MQTT and TLS.
- Getting Started with Java on the Raspberry Pi - A lot of info and history about Java itself and how to install and use it on the Raspberry Pi with a lot of example projects.
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Swift programming
- Compile Swift for Raspberry Pi by Visual Studio Code - Quick tutorial to share the way to help setup compiling Raspberry Pi code with Visual Studio Code.
- Compile Swift for Raspberry Pi by Xcode - Quick tutorial to share the way to help setup compiling Raspberry Pi code with Xcode.
- Setup Swift environment on Raspbian - Quick guide to help setup Swift environment on Raspbian stretch (lite).
- BuildSwiftOnARM - All you need to build Swift on a RaspberryPi or other ARM boards, updated to Swift 4.1.3.
- SwiftyGPIO - Swift library for hardware projects on Linux/ARM boards with support for GPIOs/SPI/I2C/PWM/UART/1Wire.
- Swish - Build Swift Projects on a remote machine within Xcode.
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Tutorials
- Auto Mount USB - Guide to setup Auto Mount USB on Raspberry Pi.
- Bridging Wifi to the Raspberry Pi over Ethernet - Set up tethered networking between macOS & Raspberry Pi.
- Build a $35 Time Capsule - Time Machine Backup Server.
- DC++ Hub - Guide to setup an ADC (DC++) Hub on Raspberry Pi.
- Docker Swarm with LetsEncrypt - Clear guidelines on how to set up a cluster with Docker, distributing services with Docker Compose and signing valid SSL certs with Letsencrypt.
- Raspberry Pi Game Console - How to Build a Raspberry Pi Retro Game Console for $35.
- Raspberry Pi login with SSH keys - Password-less login for ssh sessions on the Raspberry Pi.
- Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Plex Media Server - Beginners guide to setting up a Plex media server to stream all of your media content.
- Turn the Raspberry Pi Zero into a mini dongle computer - Setup a pi0 to be able to ssh & vnc over USB. 
- Use a Raspberry Pi with Netflix - Tutorial on watching Netflix on a Raspberry Pi.
- Using openSUSE's YaST on the Raspberry Pi
- Raspbereum - Run your own Ethereum node on a Raspberry Pi.
- Controlling Spotify with Slack and a Raspberry Pi - Node.js project to control Spotify & Slack with libspotify.
- RasRobot 4WD TB6612FNG checklist - Practical Raspberry Pi motor-driver checklist for debugging a 4WD robot with TB6612FNG drivers, common ground, standby pin and step-by-step motor tests.
- TutorialSearch - Free cross-platform search engine indexing 50,000+ tutorials from Udemy, Skillshare, Pluralsight, and other major learning platforms across 45+ categories.
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