Top 5 Raspberry Pi DIY Projects of All Time

The Raspberry Pi is a DIY project wonderchild and has been used to make some of the coolest projects across the internet over the last decade. In this video, JC rounds up five of the most interesting DIY RasPi projects found by the Eggheads at Newegg Studios. Whether you need a smart mirror, custom light show, or an ultra-powerful adblocker, the Raspberry Pi has you covered.
Do you have a favorite Raspberry Pi project that we missed? Leave it in the comments below.
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Smart Mirror: • How to Make a Raspberr...
Pi-Hole: • Block EVERY Online Ad ...
AdventurePi: • AdventurePi: The Ultim...
Home surveillance with visual recognition: • How to Make a Smart Se...
Visualizer: • Audio Reactive Lights ...
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[@Neweggstudio]

0:51 Smart Mirror 1:15 Pi-hole 1:51 Adventure Pi 2:37 Home Surveillance 3:00 Visualizer

[@electricalcoder3025]

I CAN SEE DUDE YOU ARE GREAT UTUBER... iam also making raspberry pi porjects in my channel my video and sound quality..may not be good because iam not rich enough to buy and enchance the settings for recording...it but it has content dude....but not getting much responses or...VIEWS...or subscribers...what to do....and nobody...suppourts me....iam there with my ideas and alone in my world

[@Mrclips-mc1yr]

@@electricalcoder3025 I can help you

[@apoloproject8223]

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[@apoloproject8223]

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[@MbeyaIsHome]

Home Surveillance was the only useful one, imho.

[@pdebie1982]

Finally a short overview of projects instead of a 20 minute video with the same amount of useful content. Thumbs up!

[@pandnh4]

Efficiency is key

[@MrBa143]

5 unoriginal copy pasted ideas, hmm. I guess that is quite efficient

[@gargoyled_drake]

a guy made a freaking automated garden, that plants the seeds, water the plants, messure the moist and take care of unwanted weeds with a raspberry pi, but of course it's still the add blocker, the smart mirror and the surveillance that gets the top 5 xD

[@syn3rman65]

Tbf, an ad blocker is more useful to me than a fully functioning garden 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@93dssagar]

That's because people think there's no world except the digital world. I'd be more happy to see the gardening system that dude has built than an adblocker.

[@mr.mister1990]

@@93dssagar why not water your own garden? holistic work for holistic works. tech work for tech works.

[@ghilashamaili2733]

My thought, these projects seemed useless and could be done without a raspberry pi

[@Diwixy]

@@mr.mister1990 because that's not the point of the pi....the point of the pi is creativity. You can say the same about literally everything, why make anything with the pi when you can do most of everything without it? You can make a little .22 raspberry pi gun to identify and shoot snakes in your garden by itself if thats just what you want to do....whats the point when you can just shoot them yourself by your logic. You can do anything your imagination can come up with using a Pi, why make an automatic dish washer that puts the dishes away for you when you can do wash dishes and put them away yourself?

[@PiggyXMalone]

This guy has a great voice and delivery. He should get voice over work.

[@Neweggstudio]

You can check out JC more on his Twitter if you want to hear more of his voice: twitter.com/SomeGadgetGuy

[@alexalcala700hpy7]

That's what I was gonna say!!!

[@OssieRichards]

Yes he does@

[@MrPakwan69]

I was about to say the same thing!

[@AnonymousQwerty]

Dude for real

[@TheBrosPB]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”- Arthur c. Clarke. The raspberry pi embodies that fact

[@Computer7th]

I've used it for several years as digital signing in our church.

[@yangallison505]

Hello, this is Allison from Beijing DWIN Technology from China. We are the manufacturer of Android screen, touch panel, Smart LCD display. And we specialize in this field for 17 years. We hope to get in touch with you. If you are interested, you can contact me through email:[e-mail].

[@AutoPiio]

I personally like the smart mirror the most!! Very cool and useful tool for everyday use. Are you planning to introduce an updated version of the video with new Raspberry Pi DIY projects?

[@pkonigsberg]

I built a sensor for rising water in my sump pump well and it sends me a text and email and turns on a backup water pump as well.

[@guydino.]

@@yangallison505 tf

[@ethanspitips5903]

A concise overview of fun projects! Thanks!

[@dreamingflurry2729]

I know I am late to this party - very late at that! Still: Finally a youtuber who doesn't drone on about pie-hole etc. and shows real projects that don't just use the pi as is, but do something with it :)

[@thatsdaniellelol]

Woaaah WHAT!!?!?! Are you serious!!? This is my new hobbie!! I wanna be a clever geek!!🙌🏾😍 (Also this man has an amazing speaking voice)

[@yangallison505]

Hello, this is Allison from Beijing DWIN Technology from China. We are the manufacturer of Android screen, touch panel, Smart LCD display. And we specialize in this field for 17 years. We hope to get in touch with you. If you are interested, you can contact me through email:[e-mail].

[@x3roxide]

I run pi-hole on a raspberry pi zero w for the pi4 i've tried the following 1. network storage with wireless media player 2. steam link pc to TV for couch gaming 3. low power download machine (both torrents and direct downloads) - great for those over-night massive downloads/updates I really want to buy the camera module and maybe try the home surveillance option.

[@yskwong]

I use OMV and PiHole on my RP4b. Can't live without it.

[@237311]

OMV? What is that?

[@yskwong]

@@237311 Open Media Vault

[@shepai8130]

Love the arcade 😍

[@ayemyatcho3319]

very useful to know , thanks ...

[@kapryiath]

love them fuzzy Transformers making a sneak peak XD

[@fractode]

Great presentation (& technique). Subscribed!

[@Deechtejoey]

I ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 three hours ago.. exactly when this video released at this point.

[@bmax5928]

soo...what did u built

[@Deechtejoey]

@@bmax5928 I made it into a desktop, tried to make it into a retro gaming system but I couldn't get any good ROMs and eventually I tried to install Linux again but I failed a few times and just have up to be honest

[@bmax5928]

@@Deechtejoey awww🥺 sorry for that..I just have a thought..about having one of those raspberry..but still doesn't know if it's worth it or not

[@Deechtejoey]

@@bmax5928 it really depends on if you can spare the money and have something cool you want to do with it

[@bmax5928]

@@Deechtejoey I just want it bcause I thought it would help me somehow on my study..because I'm computer science student..idk man 🤣

[@TojisBlade]

The power of the pi in the palm of my hand

[@Robert5185]

I have set it up as security camera, saltwater tank monitoring system along with Arduino, a 6 relay switch controller (I never implemented btw), a webserver, FTP server, and countless other projects. My next project is to set-it up as a testing server for web design and have it serve as a media hub for storage space, and a camera module to catch intruders in my cat door and send me alerts. Does anyone know how to put the LCD display shield into a power saving mode and shut down display without having to uninstall the driver? I feel it is too much for the processor and to be streaming and serve as network device all the time. Hmmm maybe I will get a Pi 4 for all my other tasks.

[@harikrishnab4328]

The mirror project is so cool

[@khominhvi]

I'm using 7 of them ... 1x Pi 3 Model B - Octoprint 3D printing Server, 1x PI 3 Modle B+ - PiHole adblocker w/Touchscreen Dashboard, 2x Pi Zero W - MotionEye CCTV Cameras, 2x Pi Zero - Digital Signage, and 1x Pi Zero W - TV tuner/Server/PVR. The raspberry pi is a pretty versatile device. The smart mirror and portable arcade looks interesting, but I'm thinking of doing the Pi Gameboy.

[@sinharakshit]

What's a Digital Signage?

[@khominhvi]

@@sinharakshit Think of a sign/advertisement/display, but digital, like a tv/monitor that shows the stores products on a loop.

[@pillowpalace6424]

@@khominhvi what do you mean with octoprint 3d printing server? :3

[@khominhvi]

@@pillowpalace6424 Normally you load an STL file to an SD card or connect the 3D printer to your PC to start printing on your 3D printer. With a raspberry pi you can connect the 3d printer to the pi and control your 3d printer remotely (over the network).

[@pillowpalace6424]

@@khominhvi uh thats actually hella cool

[@GabrielRivero4]

Great vídeo! Thanks!

[@yangallison505]

Hello, this is Allison from Beijing DWIN Technology from China. We are the manufacturer of Android screen, touch panel, Smart LCD display. And we specialize in this field for 17 years. We hope to get in touch with you. If you are interested, you can contact me through email:[e-mail].

[@AnshGupta]

Is it just me or this guys is so amazing :)

[@berniemackattack86]

Minus the goofy hat..

[@Mrclips-mc1yr]

Hey where can I learn about raspberry pi (from the beginning) 🙏🙏🙏

[@sasakuvac9088]

Like I am listening Topshop guy 🤣 Great video, btw! 👍🏻

[@white9362]

Thanks

[@johnsausage]

Holy moly.. the moderator has a really great voice! If he doesn't do it already, he should totally do voice overs for audio books and such!

[@Neweggstudio]

We love JC here! Check him out on his Twitter if you want to see/hear more of him: @SomeGadgetGuy

[@jessejames586]

How did you do the colorful back lighting on your ikea shelf unit behind you?

[@paulmoreira6110]

Is there a specific brand of. Orem that will work with pi-hole, my arris surfboard won’t let me change my dns and I tried on each device and still didnt work

[@BasmatiRyze14]

I made Downloader box from pi and extra portable hdd. which is shared on my local network.

[@dillis2188]

I'm glad Gary Jules found steady work.

[@tigermanners9481]

great video , the voiceover tho!

[@miketony2069]

The hat...that got me...subscribed

[@mighyguy6897]

on the third one it opened, closed and i almost never questioned the joystick anyone else lol

[@eternalpineapple8609]

watching this on a pi!

[@5ucur]

I'm looking to get a Pi for use as a file server or NAS. Now I'm wondering if it will be able to run both Pi-hole and server?

[@DavidCastillaGil]

Short answer is yes, absolutely. If you want to serve files you need Gigabit Ethernet so you will be fine with a Pi 3 or 4, depending on your expected load. But you will be connecting the drives to the USB ports so there's a max bandwidth to be shared. Also, storage drive speed will probably be the limiting factor, unless you use SSD. If you're thinking on a fully fledged 10-bay NAS with RAID, no that's not possible I think, there's a reason why those are so expensive. But still, there's so many things you can do with these tiny devices, I'd recommend everyone to try.

[@dillionmunson6707]

This reminds me of PLCs alot

[@nerfman119]

The power of the Sun, In the palm of my hand...

[@RIP857]

If Todd Margaret was a tech youtuber. thanks for the ideas though, the adventure pi would be a really fun project

[@Oselq]

i only can wish to be this youtube famous.

[@jay-rus4437]

Getting ready to build an AllStar Node for HAM radio.

[@phun1901]

Can I run these things if I have OctoPi installed for 3d printing? It seemed like the whole operating system was dedicated to Octopi

[@rebaonereba4213]

I’d really like to work on the smart mirror project.

[@Tokyonjii]

i have no idea what you said but it was very intresting :>

[@schmidtludwig884]

Multi colour light show I am interested on.Where can I get sone advice or tutorial to watch? Thank you in advance.

[@lionwangsinovoip]

Banana PI BPI-M64 is the open source hardware platform, Banana PI BPI-M64 is a quad-core 64 bit version of Banana Pi,use Allwinner A64 design, it support WIFI+BT on board.

[@SciHeartJourney]

I just bought the latest Raspberry Pi 4. I'm hoping I have better luck than using the old one. One thing I find annoying about them is that the software never works right. I tried running this code that's supposed to read a simple temperature sensor, but the code doesn't work. 😔 It's always a bunch of frustration getting them to run someone else's code to work. The messages always say that the command isn't recognized. 🙄

[@yourvoicecanbeat]

Thank you for the ideas reincarnation of Casey Kasem :)

[@XTen1000DaysX]

So you have to have this computer running the entire time this stuff is operating?

[@ai-robots.online126]

the function very powerful.

[@phnxgamingonline2219]

lookin like your about to try and steal some chipmunks...XD

[@user001sg9]

Nice video, Thanks. I am totally new to Raspberry Pi. Kindly allow me a question: can this Raspberry Pi run two applications simultaneously e.g. can it run "magic mirror" and Pi hole "ad- blocker" at the same time?

[@DavidCastillaGil]

I'm precisely playing around with both a Raspberry Pi 1 and a 4 so I can help you. The device is a fully fledged ARM computer, so yes you can run different applications at the same time. The bottleneck lies in the resources, depending on the Pi version and the software you are planning to run. Pi 1 is ARM6 at 700Mhz with 256 or 512MB RAM while Pi 4 is ARM64 at 1.5Ghz with 2, 4 or 8GB RAM. In your specific case, even the oldest Raspberry will be easily able to run both and still have some available juice. I'm running PiHole myself without issues on a headless Pi 1, but I've had it connected to a TV as well. The Pi 1 only has 10/100 Ethernet but it seems more than enough to serve DNS for a small home office/lab. And if you're planning to buy a new one and get a version 3 or 4, you can run not two but many things from it. My Pi 4 runs dozens of containers without a hassle, it's a wonderful device to play around and experiment.

[@user001sg9]

@@DavidCastillaGil Thank you for the detailed response.

[@fetchstixRHD]

Been aiming to set up a NAS + Pi Hole for some time but haven't gotten to it(!) Would be a good experience to do though, a learning curve 🙂

[@DavidCastillaGil]

@@fetchstixRHD got you, that was one of my main objectives too. But I found that for a proper NAS with several HDDs on RAID, a Pi might not be enough. Even in the most recent version you are limited to 2 USB3 and max output of the Gb Ethernet... I'm missing some SATA or M.2 ports like other SBCs have... Does anyone have any solution for this? I'm looking to connect 4 SATA HDDs, but splitting USB3 to SATA doesn't look promising, specially if I want to RAID them

[@cindycui5561]

does anyone want to review the Raspberry pi development kit which includes many sensors, you can match it with the Raspberry pi

[@ZombieLoyalist]

Pi hole is great but it's not quite the all purpose add blocker he's making out to be.

[@ns3429]

I used a Raspberry Pi 4 to build a Raspberry Pi 5

[@thatmcgamer3106]

I believe there is a minor typo in your captions. With the low power draw, 38 seconds in.

[@yangallison505]

Hello, this is Allison from Beijing DWIN Technology from China. We are the manufacturer of Android screen, touch panel, Smart LCD display. And we specialize in this field for 17 years. We hope to get in touch with you. If you are interested, you can contact me through email:[e-mail].

[@ArchitJain0318]

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[@taranagnew436]

can the pi-hole be put onto a pi 2 B+?

[@guilhermealles]

I don't know the exact specs of the Pi 2, but considering people use it on the Pi Zero W... I would say you can do it

[@ryanstlarbuckle]

Absolutely!!

[@janschmid281]

Just a heads up to pi hole, it cant block youtube ads

[@bravestarr8857]

Jesus! We're not still in the Winamp days?!

[@mraliurdu2599]

so these are ur best 5 projects seriously ?

[@bragee]

You missed home assistant man. Cheers

[@JoshFisher567]

Came here for this but got beat to it. The fact that hassio (home assistant) isn't on this list is insane.. It's by far the best pi project I started. I got it to toggle a BLE switchbot because they wanted 50 bucks for a hub to work with Alexa. Had it working in under an hour with a spare pi 3. Next thing I know I'm doing frontend lovelace YAML. The built in support is already amazing but when you add the community support, I get access to settings that won't even work with Alexa/Google assistant (natively). Then, to top it all of you can push it to both Alexa/Google assistant so you can use the SAME trigger words. Yes, to work externally (over the internet) then it's five bucks a month for the service to do so (first month free). Considering that they handle all the SSL certificate and domain for that much is actually a great deal considering what is involved. Will always work internally for free. You could set this up yourself for free to access externally but that's more involved. Especially now that it's works with the pi 4. Now, if they can get native USB boot to work then the 4 can handle faster small block sequential read than microSD cards. My pihole 4 logs and query lists load super fast. Yes, probably overkill but considering I got the USB adapter and 32GB msata drive for 45 bucks.

[@bigshot4512]

why does this man look like the dude from alvin and the chipmunks

[@aithelchristo9676]

belive me after 6 motnhs youll reach 700 k

[@Tom-xx8xl]

The prophecy was true!

[@AbdullahMohammed]

"Old" #Winamp days was this morning bro...

[@kukuster]

I switched from Winamp to foobar2000 about 4-5 years ago. Recommended

[@yellsoi]

3:35 i am watching you with the pi btw

[@bxmully]

Does pihole make ur internet download speeds slower?

[@Orion52441]

nope

[@scott32714keiser]

How is robotics or sensors not on the list it's got gpio can read your air quality warn you if your leaking gas and automatically shut off your gas line with a solenoid valve or how about a drone that flys itself

[@TheWtfareyoulooking]

Ian from Alvin and the Chipmunks

[@corymalone5944]

If adderall were a person, it would act like this guy.

[@nerfman119]

0:23 Spider-Man reference

[@simhavedala6341]

Will pi block annoying KZbin ads?

[@MKeehlify]

Loved the video, just one piece of constructive criticism: "All Time" implies past and future. Liked regardless of title.

[@Neweggstudio]

We built a Raspberry Pi-powered time machine.

[@dLzzzgaming]

@@Neweggstudio Then why isn't it on the list?!

[@Jarrahfe]

I want to learn how to code with raspberry pi. But how to start 😢

[@Kyle_v2]

God do raspberry pi's only have 3 uses , like I've only seen the used for emulators ad blockers and cameras.

[@ericlawrence9060]

Twister OS on my Pi4 4gb is insanely awesome.

[@DeCaYsF]

What do you primarily use it for ?!

[@ericlawrence9060]

@@DeCaYsF World Community grid computing and as a third in line computer using Barrier for screen sharing. Also for apps and opensource stuff and it also simultaneously also runs Pihole... all on 4gb RAM. I don't overclock it but as it is running grid computing I put a fan in it. It also runs wireshark. It is heavily used.

[@cyber_dude5287]

I instrall kali linux in my pie and use it as a hacking tool

[@TraceguyRune]

I just use my PIs as DNS and file servers, and some other automation needs.

[@renanrenan3312]

I'm Brazilian, my name is Renan, I have an interest in learning web designer and programming in python, but I have nowhere to practice, I would like to have access to the raspberry pi, more here in Brazil with the current dollar quote, the equipment that was supposed to be easy access, very expensive, between R $ 500 and R $ 1000, with a minimum wage of R $ 1060, I am not able to acquire. would it be possible to help me in any way? I'm sorry for any typo I'm using google translator. I'm just asking for not having the conditions. Thanks in advance.

[@maddab1309]

Does ai and machine learning include these kinda stuff???

[@tommyinnit9808]

Me mirror mirror on the wall

[@darshankharbikar3567]

Does c language work in raspberry pi?

[@KenJackson_US]

yes.

[@bryanwells4063]

First thought of the video. " did this guy just call me an egghead? "

[@projectmoonlight7413]

I am buiding a Raspberry Pi smartphone, and a drone.

[@trippleprod.1980]

1k'th like

[@stevenbell9589]

I'm using mine as a backup server nextcloud using a pi 4 and 4 seagate 4tb hard drives in a custom case I got from China

[@Lumpiluk]

When I tried running my own instance of Nextcloud once it got seriously confused when I wanted it to sync folders with relative symlinks in them :(

[@jobaptist]

he just called me an egghead....

[@Saintdog000]

running storj node to earn some free cash with an usb 3.0 5bay hdd enclosure

[@Exploit93]

Are u from catalonia

[@Tokyonjii]

also im planning to make /develop a game :>

[@jonDoe-ml3jq]

The kano

[@paulhelms1425]

But can it make you Raspberry Pie?

[@prabhsaini1]

Just put it in the microwave for 2 minutes it becomes a really pie!

[@hunterlepage]

😔 he didn't say DIY and Raspberry Pi

[@JasonLaveKnotts]

Does your narration indicate professional training for the speaking style used in journalism?

[@TheAngelzero89]

No hay nada de novedoso. Los mismos proyectos que hicieron con el pi3

[@wakenblakeyo]

Didn’t even mention mining 🤦‍♂️

[@blurb3330]

35 comment

[@krnl2195]

I also recommend trying this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpCalp6jeMqAhtU

[@brdrptrl06]

This is short and sweet. However, I find these uses pretty boring and not an amazing show of its potential.