12 applications that can be found Raspberry Pi

1. Desktop computer

Despite the fact that the Raspberry Pi is not the most powerful thing, its capacity will be enough to create an unpretentious computer. It is unlikely that you will be able to play such a device in a heavy game, but for office work, watching movies, listening to music and surf the Internet Raspberry Pi will suffice.

In addition to the Raspberry Pi, you need a body for him, microSD card, power supply, HDMI cable and a suitable display, as well as keyboard and mouse - wireless or connected via USB. Headphones or speakers, too, does not interfere. The device has built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Ethernet-port, so that problems with the internet will not occur.

Specially designed for the Raspberry Pi Linux distribution Raspbian. But if you do not like, you can set up ubuntu MATEConservative, but stable Debian or constantly updated Arch (With the latter likely to cope only geeks). Generally you can use any distribution - most importantly, make sure that it supports the ARM processor architecture.

you can to roll on the Raspberry Pi, if desired, even Windows 10 - for this you will need the installer WOA Deployer.

Set the media player system, office suite, web browser and other things that you need - and you have a cheap, quiet, and a miniature computer.

2. Media Center

Raspberry Pi is perfect for creating your own media center. You will need either a TV that supports HDMI. And not necessarily that the TV was new, or "smart."

Put on the Raspberry Pi any Linux distribution to choose. Then download and install it Kodi. This is a great program for the media server, with a convenient and stylish interface, tons of features, plugins and themes. And it's free.

And if you buy in addition still some remote, connected via Bluetooth, you can conveniently manage the program directly from the couch.

Kodi brings to the Raspberry Pi a variety of functions. With it, you can watch any movies and TV shows, listen to music and enjoy photos, connect to virtually any strimingovym services, download torrents, surfing on the net.

And if you do something is not enough, take a look at extension repository Kodi - you will find there is still a lot of interesting gizmos.

3. smart TV

In the appendage to the previous point is to say that the combination of Raspberry Pi and Kodi can make clever at all any TV - even the old box in your granny. This will require special analog cable (like this).

Hooking the old TV Raspberry Pi Linux and Kodi on board connects to odnoplatniku remote control, and you can safely watch "Game of Thrones" in the country. No need to take out of town a huge plasma - use the fact that there is in place.

4. Music player

You like music? If you have a spare set of good speakers, you can connect them to the Raspberry Pi and turn single board computer to a music station.

For Raspberry Pi, a special distribution called pi MusicBoxWhich provides many interesting possibilities. With it, you will be able to stream music from Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Music and listen to podcasts and iTunes gPodder. Local and network play music files in MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC and enjoy thousands radio stations through TuneIn, Dirble, AudioAddict and SomaFM. And yet scrobble on Last.fm.

Pi MusicBox supports external sound card USB - it is important for music lovers, as built-in sound from Raspberry Pi is not the best quality.

5. Attachment retroigr

Modern AAA-projects Raspberry Pi, of course, does not pull, but the good old hits for NES, SNES, Sega Master System, Genesis and others take off on it with a bang. For Linux, there are plenty of emulators of classic consoles that are easy to install in any distribution.

Either you can not bathe and immediately select one of the distributions which are entirely sharpened by emulation of the classic games. For instance, Recalbox or RetroPie. They are optimized for Raspberry Pi and support both current controllers of the PlayStation 3/4 and XBox 360 / One, and replicas of classical (eg, this).

To heighten the old school is recommended to run all this stuff on the old convex analog TV screen, and you will not notice, like the tears of nostalgia moisturize the beard.

6. Client Steam Link

Performance Raspberry Pi does not allow him to play in the most demanding games. But this does not mean that odnoplatnik gamer useless. You surely know that the Steam client is a function of "Home broadcast».

It works like this: You start the game on its powerful PC, and then the image begins to be broadcast in real time on a different device from which you and will manage the game.

As such a device could easily serve Raspberry Pi. Connect it to a monitor or TV, connect gamepads (best native Steam Controller) and give access via Ethernet to your home network.

Then set the Steam Link application, which is available on the official Raspberry Pi for Raspbian system. Turn the game on your PC, start the broadcast. And Rasbperry Pi will become a kind of console.

7. Wireless print server

Let's say you have an old printer. Not so old to throw it away. But not new enough to them to maintain the connection to the wireless network technology. And you have at home a lot of different devices with which we would like to use this printer. Raspberry Pi help you with this.

Set your SBC any system of your choice (Raspbian or Debian are ideal). Then, the system set the Samba and CUPS packages. Connect the printer to the Raspberry Pi cable network and make it in the system settings.

Connect a Raspberry Pi to a Wi-Fi, and that's on your printer, you can print from any computer or laptop in your local network.

And if doustanovit in avahi-discover a package, then the printer will support Air Print feature. Through it can be printed "on air" with the iPhone, iPad or Android.

8. network drive

NAS - is a network storage in a compact design that makes it easy to create backups and restore data from all your computers on the local network. It has many advantages, but it's still a pretty expensive thing. Raspberry Pi is all the same for less.

Take Raspberry Pi with Linux installed on board and connect the few hard drives. It can be used as an interface SATA, so and USB. Then in the settings of the carriers make them available to all of your computers on the local network. You get a kind of makeshift NAS.

Now your data will be safe. Keep all documents, photos and other important information on the Raspberry Pi discs and be sure that nothing will happen to them.

Built-in backup tool Windows 10 and other program for backups able to save backups to network drives, so that the copying process can be fully automated.

9. own cloud

So, you have your network storage. Why not go further and create their private cloud? Why depend on Google and Dropbox, which ask for money for every extra megabyte?

To expand on the Raspberry Pi your cloud server, you'll need a distribution like Debian or Raspbian and special application ownCloud or its equivalent, Nextcloud. They have a desktop client for all platforms, and mobile applications.

Creating a cloud on the Raspberry Pi, you will get a huge scope for action. Automatically synchronizes files across all platforms, customization and very fast. Storage for contacts and mail (goodbye, Gmail). Storage notes (goodbye, greedy Evernote). You can even expand its service to manage your tasks and to work on the Raspberry Pi team is in some Trello.

10. torrent downloader

Those who enjoy downloading different things from the trackers can turn Raspberry Pi into a universal downloader torrents. For this we need, actually, single board computer, and one or more hard drives connected via USB or SATA.

Replace the Raspberry Pi system and torrent client. For example, a light or functional Transmission qBittorrent. Manage them from any computer on your home network through a web interface in the browser.

Alternatively, you can configure the client so that it will automatically pick up torrent-files from any cloud storage like Dropbox. You throw off the torrent-file from any device in the folder, and the device will automatically start downloading.

In addition, Raspberry Pi can be taught to follow the change of hands of RSS. So, when will the new series of some "Game of Thrones", the device will download its own, without waiting for your command.

11. router

From Rasbperry Pi can do something like a router, which will block ads on all devices on your home network. Replace the SBC special application called Pi-HoleTo adjust, then turn the Raspberry Pi in Wi-Fi mode of distribution. You may need to purchase an external Wi-Fi module for Pi, if the quality of the signal seems insufficient.

When all of your gadgets will connect to the Internet via Pi-Hole, they will disappear advertising. Banners in browsers, pop-up windows in applications on smartphones or smart TVs - all this will be carefully cut.

In addition, Pi-Hole can block unwanted websites for you and display detailed statistics for the costs of Internet traffic.

And if a little fiddle with a setting, then with Raspberry Pi, you can skip all your traffic through a VPN or TOR. Then you will forget about permanent locking.

12. Web Server

You have your own website, blog, or something like that, and you are tired of paying for web hosting? Why not post your creation on the Raspberry Pi? Of course, odnoplatnik unlikely to pull a huge resource with millions of visitors, but if you have a small site, the device can handle it.

Can install on Raspberry Pi Apache, PHP, MySQL, WordPress - all the tools that you need, and a miniature computer would be good Web server. We can only be purchased from ISP static IP. Or even do without it, using the service No-IP.com.

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It's not all that can be done with the Raspberry Pi. Craftsmen in the network make him your own weather station video surveillance system, automatic feed dispensers for dogs and fertilizers for flowers, and even a huge fighting robots. Finally, nothing prevents use Raspberry Pi for several tasks at once - it all depends on your needs and fantasies.