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I'm using a Raspberry Pi (Gen 1, Model B I think) to run a smart mirror. It pulls up my daily commute, news headlines, weather, and calendar. I take no credit for the software ( https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror ) I also had one connected to my Motorola LapDock back in 2012 to run a portable raspbian laptop. It worked surprisingly well.
* DNS server including pi-hole
* headless bittorrent client (transmission daemon)
* NFS and miniDLNA media server
* git remote
Currently my problem is that samba will fail to write files greater than around 100+ MB uploaded to the server. (Writing to a USB drive). It still handles multi-gigabyte downloads ok.
I've been able to work around it with SFTP uploading, so it's just a minor annoyance, but I wish I knew what was going on.
Using several Raspberry Pis to monitor CO2 levels in my house. Each Raspberry Pi has a CO2 sensor - wrote a little Python script to retrieve data from sensor and upload it to a server Which is also a Raspberry Pi.
Pretty easy to use, so far I like it.
1 keeps a log of temperature/pressure/humidity using sense hat;
1 has a backup of my photos on an external hd (and also has an sds011 dust sensor (https://github.com/glgraca/sds011).
But my best project has been a picture frame using a Pi Zero W that receives photos via Telegram. My kids' grandparents have this also and they love it (https://github.com/glgraca/PiFrame).
I once took one on a holiday to watch Netflix at night.
When the pre-order frenzy for the Pi4 has died down, I'm going to buy a 2 or 4GB model and use it to replace the old and slow crappy Windows 10 box we're using to stream Amazon Prime stuff to our TV.