Raspberry Pi Projects

In reality, when I say Raspberry Pi projects, I could mean almost anything that can run with the Python coding language I’d imagine. There are tons of things from making a NAS, to home security systems, and weather stations you can make with these. I want one to see how much I can do with just one, and discover how versatile of a device it can be. Below I’ll start listing some of the projects I want to do with a Raspberry Pi, and probably a few things that quite aren’t Python related. We’ll see.

 

Raspberry Pi/Desktop Hybrid

This isn’t like someone who’s using their Raspberry Pi as a desktop PC. The Raspberry Pi is built in as an auxiliary device that can save things to the desktop PC’s hard drive, as well as turn on the PC when the appropriate signal is given. I figured something like this could let me have a sort of auto-sync from my phone to my desktop, even while my desktop computer is turned off. In the event that I would need a desktop computer’s hardware I would be able to send a signal to the motherboard of the desktop computer to turn it on, and once the appropriate software is started up the Raspberry Pi could either power off or be turned into some other auxiliary task.

 

OCR Receipt Reader and Organizer Thingy

That’s the link to what’s been started with the project. Really it’s just been bumbling around trying to get dependencies installed and error messages to stop appearing. I had it working once upon an installation of Ubuntu ago. I hope to be able to, in the end, scan a picture of a receipt and have the information on the receipt auto sort to the proper places in a spreadsheet.