51+ Raspberry Pi Projects for Beginners

Installing Jenkins on your Raspberry Pi

By following this guide, you will learn how to install Jenkins on your Raspberry Pi. Jenkins is a free and open-source automation server that provides functionality for both continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Compiling FFmpeg on the Raspberry Pi

Beginner, Media

In this tutorial, you will learn how to compile the FFmpeg software on the Raspberry Pi. FFmpeg is a collection of libraries that can encode and decode various video and audio codecs that is compatible with the Pi’s ARM architecture.

Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi

Beginner

In this guide, you will learn how to install Minecraft Pi Edition to your Raspberry Pi. You will also learn how to make use of the Minecraft Python API to interact with the game world in various ways, such as changing blocks.

Installing MongoDB to the Raspberry Pi

Beginner

In this guide, you will learn how to install and setup MongoDB on your Raspberry Pi. This guide will explore the process of how to install MongoDB on both Raspbian and Ubuntu. Ubuntu will give you access to newer builds of MongoDB.

Using IFTTT with the Raspberry Pi

Beginner, IoT

This tutorial will walk you through the process of using IFTTT on your Raspberry Pi. IFTTT is a handy free web-service that stands for “If That Then That” and is used to make actions happen when a specific condition occurs.

Compiling and Running gDrive

Beginner

Use this guide to learn how to compile and run the popular gDrive software. gDrive is a command-line based tool for interacting with Google Drive. Using this software, you can sync files and directories with ease.

Installing Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi

Beginner

This quick guide will walk you through the steps to installing Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi. Mathematica a powerful math and data computation engine that is available for free to all Raspberry Pi owners using Raspbian.

Installing Docker on the Raspberry Pi

Beginner, IoT

In this project, you will learn how how to set up and test Docker on the Raspberry Pi with just a few simple commands. Docker is a powerful tool for managing software packages in a container with low overhead.

Installing OpenCV on the Raspberry Pi

Beginner, Camera

By following this guide, you will learn how to compile OpenCV on the Raspberry Pi successfully. OpenCV is a collection of libraries that help you develop your very own computer vision application.

How to Run Netflix on the Raspberry Pi

Beginner, Media

This tutorial will run you through the process of getting Netflix working on your Raspberry Pi. To get Netflix to work on the Pi we will be making use of a special add-on for the popular media center, Kodi.

How to Setup a Raspberry Pi DNS Server

Beginner, Network

In this tutorial, we take you through all the steps to configuring your Raspberry Pi to act as a DNS server. It’s ideal if you want to have a bit more control over how your local network operates. It’s a relatively easy tutorial.

Installing InfluxDB to the Raspberry Pi

Beginner, Servers

In this tutorial, we walk you through the process of setting up and installing InfluxDB to the Raspberry Pi. InfluxDB is the perfect database for storing metrics as every data point in InfluxDB contains a timestamp.

Setting up Grafana on the Raspberry Pi

Beginner, IoT, Servers

Learn how to setup Grafana on the Raspberry Pi in just a few easy steps in this tutorial. Grafana is the perfect tool for analyzing and visualizing metrics such as temperatures, system usage or even stock prices.

How to Install Gogs on the Raspberry Pi

Beginner, Servers

Learn how to set up Gogs on the Raspbian operating system in this easy to follow tutorial. Gogs is the perfect Git web interface for the Raspberry Pi as it’s performance-friendly. It’s great if you love using a GUI to manage your Git repositories.