Ask HN: I got a Raspberry Pi what should I do?

You can help Tor or I2P by joining as a relay. You can help peer to peer search YaCy, https://yacy.net.

Things I did recently:

* Control the lights on the christmas tree

* Install Pi-Hole

* Run nginx and flask to serve videos of courses I've downloaded over the years.

Things I plan to do:

* Build an embedded operating system by following Stanford's CS140E course: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25272229

* Control more LED lights

Depends what you're into. You can use the pinouts to control motors, or lights, or take inputs from sensors. You can use it as a tiny server. You can use the stuff on raspbian to learn programming. You can add a battery pack and have a tiny portable linux box. If you can dream it, you can probably do it.

I dedicate one ('headless': no display or keyboard) to being a HTTPS website server, as well as being a UPS controller.

Smarthome. Best use of RPI for me.

i keep hearing about piholes