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Top 23 Raspberry Pi Open-Source Projects
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Home Assistant
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Project mention: A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: case studies | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-17 -
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Project mention: CPU & Memory Monitoring 101: How to Check, Analyze, and Optimize System Performance | dev.to | 2025-05-14
Netdata: Provides beautiful, real-time dashboards for visualizing system metrics ( https://www.netdata.cloud ).
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This part can be link to Pi-Hole Before proceed to configuring VPN, recommended to get "Free DNS" for yourself at MyDNS to manage your own network.
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Project mention: Revolutionize Your Workflow: Gogs, the Self-Hosted Git Server You've Been Waiting For! | dev.to | 2025-04-20
View the Project on GitHub
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Project mention: Show HN: A backend agnostic Ruby framework for building reactive desktop apps | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-09
Very cool project, and well thought with the choice of Raylib or SDL2. But since Raylib can compile to Android (https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/examples/Makef...), do you think it could be difficult to add Android as a target platform ?
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MagicMirror
MagicMirror² is an open source modular smart mirror platform. With a growing list of installable modules, the MagicMirror² allows you to convert your hallway or bathroom mirror into your personal assistant.
Project mention: Stay on schedule with Raspberry Pi Pico W and an e-ink dashboard | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-07I'm personally a fan of MagicMirror [1] which is pretty much a turnkey solution for this problem. I have one set up on an old Raspberry Pi connected to a spare wall-mounted monitor. What I love with MagicMirror is that it's a modular system, where you choose which modules you want to have and where to display them. I only use it to display a shared calendar with my wife, along with the week's weather. But there are a few hundred modules, with things like displaying your expected commute time (based on Google maps I think), integrations with some apps like AnyList, etc.
[1] https://github.com/MagicMirrorOrg/MagicMirror
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Project mention: Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-26
I use https://github.com/jarun/nnn/ with `cd` on quit if I need to scan around manually. Otherwise, zoxide.
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Project mention: Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-20
Internet of Things (IoT): IoT is transforming how we interact with the world and has huge potential in game development. Kids can learn to use smart devices, PCBs, chips, and sensors to create interactive games and "smart" objects (). Here's a resource to get started:
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I've settled on Navidrome for the server, and Symfonium for the player on Android (not open source). Symfonium can sync with the server so I can have all my music even when offline.
https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome
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Project mention: Johnny Five:JS Robotics and IoT Programming Framework Developed at Bocoup | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-24
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Self-Hosting-Guide
Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting (on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by yourself or your organization. Including Cloud, LLMs, WireGuard, Automation, Home Assistant, and Networking.
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qt
Qt binding for Go (Golang) with support for Windows / macOS / Linux / FreeBSD / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi / AsteroidOS / Ubuntu Touch / JavaScript / WebAssembly
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Project mention: A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-02
servos (three at each rotor swashplate), as well as power management and thermal control functions."[0]
[0] https://rotorcraft.arc.nasa.gov/Publications/files/Balaram_A...
[1] https://nasa.github.io/fprime/
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RetroPie-Setup
Shell script to set up a Raspberry Pi/Odroid/PC with RetroArch emulator and various cores
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OpenFrameworks
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Project mention: Ask HN: Who Are Your Favorite Photography and Generative Coding Artists? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-26 -
vosk-api
Offline speech recognition API for Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node
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Open and cheap DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi
Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi
Project mention: JetKVM – Next generation open-source KVM over IP for $69 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-03$1,937,967 pledged of $50,000 goal
I don't what's different about it. Now that it's easy to get pis again this might be what you are looking for: https://pikvm.org/
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umbrel
A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi or any x86 system.
What I would want to have some company to make one device that would at the same time be:
1) router
2) smart tv (airplay, chromecast, miracast)
3) smart speaker
4) smart home gateway (matter)
5) wireless charging pad
6) private cloud (nextcloud)
7) private backup (removable nvm)
8) private vpn / dns / pihole / adguard
9) mini server
Everything in a nice package and preconfigure and ideally modular (upgradable ssd, wifi).
UmbrelOS [0] is interesting but its quite expensive and its only for home server (no router, no smart speaker, smart tv, wireless charging pad). Apple TV has a great hardware and cheap but so limited for 3rd party. Wish they made it modular that you could attach magnetic speaker, wireless charging pad and had some usb for attaching 4g modem.
[0] https://umbrel.com/
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Raspberry Pi projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home Assistant | 79,066 |
| 2 | Netdata | 74,561 |
| 3 | Pi-hole | 51,912 |
| 4 | Gogs | 46,386 |
| 5 | raylib | 26,324 |
| 6 | setup-ipsec-vpn | 26,187 |
| 7 | MagicMirror | 21,272 |
| 8 | nnn | 20,090 |
| 9 | IoT-For-Beginners | 15,877 |
| 10 | Navidrome Music Server | 14,612 |
| 11 | awesome-raspberry-pi | 14,536 |
| 12 | rust-raspberrypi-OS-tutorials | 14,133 |
| 13 | raspberry-pi-os | 13,404 |
| 14 | johnny-five | 13,354 |
| 15 | Self-Hosting-Guide | 13,368 |
| 16 | qt | 10,572 |
| 17 | fprime | 10,305 |
| 18 | RetroPie-Setup | 10,193 |
| 19 | OpenFrameworks | 10,146 |
| 20 | vosk-api | 9,509 |
| 21 | gobot | 9,178 |
| 22 | Open and cheap DIY IP-KVM based on Raspberry Pi | 8,947 |
| 23 | umbrel | 8,841 |
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