FINALLY got my Raspberry Pi Zero W after 2 months of waiting, comment me some cool projects to do with it

Vps with pihole, provide me free service for 5 years, I got dirty work to do under the radar

@sam9669 Okay Señor Escobar

WATERCOOL AND OVERCLOCK IT!

@Mizz141 That'll cost me

Pivpn

@ScribeOfGoD That would be nice

@HRT-713 easiest setup ever. Works on full distros as well

Somehow... I don't like that thing.
I never came up with something it could be meant.

You've got a tiny super low power computer.
Naturally I would say: headless networking device.
But it got relatively good graphics and no networking.
So... Nope

Maybe a mobile something?
Lacks networking and you'll need to connect some USB-Peripherals. So you would need a OTG adapter, which is about half the size of the zero and makes it chunky for a mobile device.

Maybe connect stuff over Bluetooth? Well... No Bluetooth.

Home TV / Kodi Player ...
Hooking up a IR sensor on the pins...
Yea... Could work.
again: no Networking.
Playing Media from a USB drive --> need OTG dongle.

Only useful thing: it got a camera connector.
You could write some scripts that apply filters on it and display them on a HDMI screen.
You could even save them on SD.
Or Face detection in combination with something connected to the pin header.

Whatever else you would want to do:
take another RasPi or (for price) OrangePi

Learn Bare Metal programming, like chess game, in Assembly language.

https://youtu.be/-03bouPsfEQ

Don't use mini-hdmi you can use the USB both for power and data, then use vnc

Automated garden watering (based on weather data)

@Anaeijon It has built in wireless bluetooth and wi-fi

@incognito I live in an appartment, so that wouldn't work yet nice idea

@HRT-713
I didn't know about the new versions.
But according to google, only the RaspberryPi Zero W has Bluetooth and WiFi, which is only available since 2017 and doubled the official price.

@Anaeijon Yeah that's the one I have

I am making it part of my PLC :D

@mngr nice idea

@mngr How are you doing it?

There is a lot of open source project for machine-control with a raspberry.
OpenPLC or Machinekit, just to give you a couple of names.
I use Machinekit on the RPi, and I will use a "arduino" too, cause I need a huge amount of contacts, and I will work on the connection between it and the raspberry, this will be the project for my bachelor degree!!!

@mngr thanks a lot