Breaking out my old Pi 1b. Anything lightweight I can put it to work on?

• shairport-sync

  59 6,849 8.9 C

  AirPlay and AirPlay 2 audio player

I run shairport-sync on mine with a USB DAC (AirPlay). Runs great.

• PiFM

  4 100 4.4 C

  GUI Based Raspberry Pi FM transmitter with RDS encoding! (by MundeepL)

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• psx-pi-smbshare

  35 372 5.3 Shell

  A swiss army knife for enhancing classic game consoles with Raspberry Pi

More niche, but I have my Pi running as an SMB share for PS2 isos using pi-psx-smbshare. Now I don't have to use my failing PS2 disc drive to play games.

• nut

  192 1,553 9.9 C

  The Network UPS Tools repository. UPS management protocol Informational RFC 9271 published by IETF at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9271 Please star NUT on GitHub, this helps with sponsorships!

  

• DietPi

  306 4,521 9.8 Shell

  Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!

You can put many things on it. Give a shot to DietPi OS.

• pivpn

  311 6,854 5.8 Shell

  The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi

  

I have my 3B+ running a Wireguard server (https://pivpn.io/) for remote access to my home network, and Miniflux (https://miniflux.app/) as I've long mourned the death of Google Reader. It has plenty of resources left for any future projects I want to throw on it as well.

• Miniflux

  87 6,228 9.7 Go

  Minimalist and opinionated feed reader

  

I have my 3B+ running a Wireguard server (https://pivpn.io/) for remote access to my home network, and Miniflux (https://miniflux.app/) as I've long mourned the death of Google Reader. It has plenty of resources left for any future projects I want to throw on it as well.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• balenaPrint

  3 90 0.0 Shell

  Managed CUPS on Raspberry Pi devices, running balenaOS

A couple of different project ideas/software over here as well: https://hub.balena.io/

• boinc

  213 1,915 9.6 PHP

  Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

  

• alpine-guide

  1 0 10.0

  Een basis linux alpine gids

Might be helpfull, but this is some course material that I wrote for my students on how alpine and wireguard works. It's in dutch though but auto translate might be able to help you out: https://github.com/epiecs/alpine-guide

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