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    <p><font size="2">Hi Vic Pi Makers,</font></p>
    <p><font size="2">Our last meeting of the 2025-2026 is less than a
        week away.  Then comes our summer break when we all have lots of
        time to do what we do during the summer and think of Pi and
        other projects to measure, sense, communicate  with, organize,
        store and control the world. So, you can present your
        accomplishments at our meetings next fall, winter and spring.</font></p>
    <p><font size="2">If you are having trouble with starting your
        creativity and are looking for inspiration as to what to build,
        design or code next I have collected some ideas below. </font></p>
    <p><font size="2">Or, perhaps, you have already done some of these
        and all you need to do is talk about what you did.  So please,
        think about your projects and perhaps doing a presentation next
        fall or winter.</font></p>
    <p><font size="2">I did a quick search for pi and esp projects.  I
        make no representation as to how valuable these are or if they
        even work and I'm hoping that they provide some inspiration and
        discussion.</font></p>
    <ul>
      <li><font size="2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
            href="https://randomnerdtutorials.com/projects-esp32/"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://randomnerdtutorials.com/projects-esp32/</a></font></li>
      <li><font size="2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2021/03/26/10-raspberry-pi-pico-projects/"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2021/03/26/10-raspberry-pi-pico-projects/</a></font></li>
      <li><font size="2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://randomnerdtutorials.com/projects-raspberry-pi/"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://randomnerdtutorials.com/projects-raspberry-pi/</a></font></li>
    </ul>
    <h3>Selected from above projects.</h3>
    <p><font size="2">These are projects I like. You may have different
        ideas, feel free to ignore my likes.</font></p>
    <ul>
      <li><font size="2">Audio Player: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-play-audio-mp3-wav-arduino/"
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-play-audio-mp3-wav-arduino/</a></font></li>
      <li><font size="2">Automate your railroad: <a
            moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.instructables.com/Raspberry-Pi-Pico-Controlled-Simple-Automated-Mode/"
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.instructables.com/Raspberry-Pi-Pico-Controlled-Simple-Automated-Mode/</a></font></li>
      <li><font size="2">Temperature, humidity, pressure:  <a
            moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://randomnerdtutorials.com/raspberry-pi-bme280-data-logger/"
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://randomnerdtutorials.com/raspberry-pi-bme280-data-logger/</a></font></li>
    </ul>
    <h3>And, Projects I would like to see:</h3>
    <ul>
      <li><font size="2">Home Assistant <a
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi/"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi/</a></font></li>
      <li><font size="2">VPN Examples below and there are probably
          others.<br>
        </font> </li>
      <ul>
        <li><font size="2">raspberry pi  <a
              href="https://www.pivpn.io/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.pivpn.io/ 
            </a><br>
          </font> </li>
        <li><font size="2">ESP32 <a
href="https://hackaday.com/2026/05/18/running-a-vpn-gateway-on-an-esp32/"
              class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://hackaday.com/2026/05/18/running-a-vpn-gateway-on-an-esp32/</a><br>
          </font> </li>
      </ul>
      <li><font size="2">Smart thermostat. Using an ESP or a Pi Pico.  I
          have considered doing this, but I keep running into how to
          make it fail-safe.</font></li>
      <li><font size="2">RFID door lock from someone better at mechanics
          than me. Take a look at my RFID presentation <a
            moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://drtr.net/pi/rfid/"
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://drtr.net/pi/rfid/</a>.
          for the RFID part, no mechanics included. </font></li>
    </ul>
    <p><font size="2">These projects are mostly because I want you to
        show me how.</font></p>
    <p><font size="2">Deid</font></p>
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