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Build an automated bot that captures images of the outdoors and tweets them, along with the weather on a regular basis.

Waste no more fog juice and use a Raspberry Pi to activate your fog machine when people are detected.

Use a Raspberry Pi with image recognition to determine when your cat or dog approaches the door and wants to be let out.

Surprise your friends by creating a moving zombie arm that jumps out when Raspberry Pi detects a person.

Turn a large DJ light into a morse code communications device.

Use your Raspberry Pi to set up a reminder screen with all of your upcoming tasks on it.

Using the Zoom API, a light and a Pi, we can make a sign that lights up to tell your home or office mates that you are on call.

Using a Raspberry Pi, you can make a light strip illuminate whenever you hit the appropriate keys.

If someone is sending morse code light flashes to you, your Raspberry Pi can decode them.

If you need to run a script that takes several minutes or gets run again and again, here’s how.

Receive messages from the upside down (or anyone with a web browser) that light up a series of Christmas lights on your wall.

DMX lighting is the standard used in entertainment settings such as in the theatre or by DJs. Using an adapter and the right code, you can control DMX from your Pi.

Project a map of current aircraft onto your ceiling.

With a Raspberry Pi and a SDS011 sensor, you can monitor particulates as small as 2.5 micrometers.

You can host a website that’s available on the Internet from the Raspberry Pi on your desk, all without giving out your actual IP address.