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Are there any light projects I can run on a Raspberry Pi Zero? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W that is serving as my Pihole server, but that only uses about 10% of its very underpowered CPU, and I feel like I'm not getting my money's worth. Anyone have any lightweight project ideas I can run on it to use up more of its resources?

Could I run BOINC limited to 50% CPU usage on it or is it too slow to complete jobs on time? Could I maybe seed torrents for popular Linux distros on it without the rather weak Wi-Fi chipset getting overwhelmed and bottlenecking the DNS server?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are certainly some BOINC projects that could work with it, many BOINC projects support android as well which is similar in terms of specs. [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I run both pihole and openvpn on my pi so I can get ad free internet anywhere.

You could also use a camera module or a webcam as a security camera that you can access from outside of your home.