[VicPiMakers Projects] Pi Makers Presentations/Projects for Next Year

[deid]

Hi Vic Pi Makers,

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.

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.

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.

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.

  * https://randomnerdtutorials.com/projects-esp32/
  * https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2021/03/26/10-raspberry-pi-pico-projects/
  * https://randomnerdtutorials.com/projects-raspberry-pi/


      Selected from above projects.

These are projects I like. You may have different ideas, feel free to 
ignore my likes.

  * Audio Player:
    https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-play-audio-mp3-wav-arduino/
  * Automate your railroad:
    https://www.instructables.com/Raspberry-Pi-Pico-Controlled-Simple-Automated-Mode/
  * Temperature, humidity, pressure:
    https://randomnerdtutorials.com/raspberry-pi-bme280-data-logger/


      And, Projects I would like to see:

  * Home Assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi/
  * VPN Examples below and there are probably others.
      o raspberry pi https://www.pivpn.io/ <https://www.pivpn.io/>
      o ESP32
        https://hackaday.com/2026/05/18/running-a-vpn-gateway-on-an-esp32/
  * 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.
  * RFID door lock from someone better at mechanics than me. Take a look
    at my RFID presentation https://drtr.net/pi/rfid/. for the RFID
    part, no mechanics included.

These projects are mostly because I want you to show me how.

Deid


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