First Rpilocator/Dphacks Giveaway – June 2023
Winner Announcement
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Hello, Hello!
Let’s keep things simple. This is a giveaway for a Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB RAM and a Raspberry Pi Camera Module (V3). The winner will receive both items at home, free of charge. Both the Pi 4B and the camera are brand new in the box and never opened.
The Rules
Post a comment below AND check the box to subscribe to my newsletter. When adding a comment, tell me how you would like to use the Pi 4B 8GB and the camera. This is just so your comment doesn’t get flagged as spam; the winner will be selected randomly independent of the content of the comment.
One entry per person. Please don’t get all smart pants on me and enter multiple emails. This will disqualify you from the giveaway.
More Details
I will send the goods to the winner anywhere in the world free of charge. Keep in mind that you might be responsible for duties and taxes when the product arrives in your country (if outside the US). It is your responsibility to pay for local taxes and fees.
If you post a comment and it doesn’t show up right away, please don’t add another one. Comments can get stuck in moderation and I have to approve them individually. Don’t worry, I’ll go through all the comments stuck in moderation and spam filter before picking the winner.
The comment section will remain open for 3 days. The giveaway will close on Tuesday, June 6th 2023 @ 8pm Central Time (or thereabouts).
Hateful speech, foul language, or any other dickery will disqualify you from the giveaway.
Who’s Sponsoring This?
This giveaway is sponsored by me, I bought these items with my own money and I’m deciding to give them to a friend in the community in return for the support that rpilocator has received during the Pi shortage.
“But it says rpilocator in the title, are they sponsoring it?”, you might wonder. I created rpilocator.com.
Picking the Winner
After the comments section in the post closes, I will delete all duplicates, approve any pending comments, and I’ll head to random.org to pick a winner. If the winner is not signed up for my newsletter, I will pick another winner. You are free to unsubscribe to my newsletter after the winner is declared – I’ll post the winner here.
I will contact the winner through the email entered in the comment. If the winner does not reply in 5 days, I will pick another winner.
Newsletter Details
To be quite honest, I don’t even have a newsletter 🙂 but I figured I would start one! The newsletter will most likely be in the style of one of my SBC Week in Review posts (example) and I’ll probably include projects I’m working on, like the CM4 Ether Board. I will never (ever!) use your email for spamming. The newsletter will only contain maker/Raspberry Pi/SBC content.
I was here!
Learning once I get one. Love the idea of a home NAS or PiHole or pF sense set up etc
Looking for something to help me train my cub scouts
I would like to use the raspberry pi for a robotics project using an AI so it can detect humans and object and move around on tank tracks that I will 3d print
Building a Twingate server.
Would love to have one to use octoprint on my 3d printer
I want to move my home server to a pi cluster to save power and increase uptime. Also I want to learn clustering stuff but I can’t afford it – especially with current prices.
I will use it for homeassistant, or nas or both.
Experimenting with opencv. Thank you for the opportunity
Want to upgrade my just built Voron 2.4 as I only had a RPi 2b. Wifi and camera would allow for remote print monitoring.
Pi-hosted is great for self hosting services. I need a new one to run that.
I’m going to use it to build a radar speed sign for.my neighborhood
I Dont want to spend money on them because in poor it student, but i want to learn Linux And other network projects.
I want to do one of those computer in a case boxes
I have some problems with my Intel Nuc and homeassistant with the usb pass-through from proxmox. With a raspberry it will definitely not occur.
Regards
Dominik
I would use the Pi to run OctoPi for my 3D printer and the camera to monitor/make timelapses of my prints.
I would use the Rpi for my PIHPSDR project. Currently I am using a Pi-4 that I am borrowing from my grandson.
Learning the technology keeps me humble.
I am hosting a small maker community, will use it as something for the members to use for education. If it were me I would do some machine vision for a bird feeder.
I would replace my aging home assistant server!
Same! I’d use for discord bot, web server, pi hole hosting
I would like to make a smart mirror for my aging mother-in-law who still lives alone.
Well, my 3B+ broke and got rusty, no longer boots or anything. A new pi would be great! I wanted a pi 4 since 2020 when I found out they existed, but I have a camera module v2 but a v3 would be good.
Would use these to teach my son coding and how to interact with the camera using Linux commands, software etc. thank you.
I would like to use it for learning new stuff like AI detection etc
Would like to replace my camera the squirrels tore up, and tinker with AI on the video alarms. Been having a hell of a time getting a Pi, you know the deal
This board would be my new Home Assistant brain.
A nature cam for the garden.
I want To use the pi To learn about Linux etc
I will build an assistent for my home and my tasks
I would use the pi and the camera to watch live my 3d printers
Hey so was I
I would use a Pi4 to create a WriterDeck for composing fiction
I would like to use it for contributing on openfpv which is a low latency hd video feed for rc drones or planes.
I’ve been wanting a Pi for a while now as I am a student heading into my junior year of college, it would be a good learning tool.
Replace my aging 3d printing server.
This Pi will be used to run several scrapera for availability of rare items on it 🙂
Pi 4B + camera V3 = movie project 🙂
I want to upgrade my original Google AIY Vision project. It’s been a long time in the wings and due for a review/renewal
For learning embedded programming in Go
I would use it to set up an octopi
I want to setup home assistant
I would use the Raspberry Pi for a home media server, and would be interested in using the camera as a learning project.
I would like to try to make a home assistant with Pi!
Id like to use one as a sort of multimedia console !
Home NAS
Home assistant/ home security
Yeah me too,
I think a home NAS would be a great idea
Just wanted the newsletter 🙂
Would love to use the RPi and the camera for a custom ring system for my house!
Love what you’re doing!
Want to use it for a LPR for my job in parking management
Want to make a portable guitar amp system
I would love to use this as a heavy duty octopi host. Thanks for doing the giveaway!
Would use this to self host bit warden among other things
Wildlife camera with some AI!
Beginning of May, my dad started renovating the house and I wanted to try home automation. I couldnt start researching right away since I was in the middle of my final exam. Now that i graduated from highschool from IT, I started researching about home automation and in the process of researching I found more information about Network Security and using pihole/pfsense. I was learning about network in school but it didn’t intrigue me that much. Now when I’m researching about it it’s a lot more interesting than I thought. I wanted to order one on makerbright, but I was worried since the reviews weren’t that great. Next day I wanted to order it through paypal, but it was out of stock (ordering through cousin since I don’t have paypal). The next day it was in stock again, but I couldn’t contact my cousin so when he contacted me the next day it was out of stock again. I hope I can win this so I can continue the path to the dark side of home automation and rule the household *sorry been watching too many videos from Smart Home Solver 😂😂
This is awesome! Thanks for the opportunity 👊🏻
woohoo, cool giveaway!
I would use the rpi/camera as an additional home surveillance device
Hi from north east UK
Well I am actually in the market for RPi 4, which I would like to use as my wedding Photo Booth.
I’d use it for aquarium control using reef-pi
Hi, I’d use these as a way to record the foxes we see in the field that backs onto our garden (as my little box is fascinated by the fact they’re ‘wild’).
So will need some recommendations for a suitable enclosure … 👍
Thanks 🙏
Might be overkill but I’d love to use the pi4 to run klipper on 4 of my printers
I’d use the Raspberry Pi as a hotspot for my digital ham radio
I need a new media center! Thanks!
It’s for my FOMO because I didn’t buy one when were available.
Thanks for doing that and keep up the good work!
A pi is a wonderful thing.
If I win, I’ll donate it and the camera to a local school.
I fully understand the winner is entirely random, but hopefully karma will hold out one way or another.
This would be nice to use as a portable lab.
I’ll be using Pi as a control board for a 3D printer and installing Klipper on it.
I would love to try to build a heaped or a NAS server with the Pi
I would use the machine as a desktop replacement! Want to use less power and don’t need super powered desktop.
I would use the pi for a server or proxy, but may get into some tensor flow lite with computer vision stuff with the camera.
Great job and couldn’t resist chucking my name in the hat
I would use this to make a retro gaming setup. Thanks for this.
Would love to upgrade my octopi setup to a newer pi with more oomph
Been waiting a couple years to get a pi4 to upgrade several projects currently running on older boards.
I have a pi housing case for a trailcam that needs a pi and camera to mount in my back yard pointing towards the state forest. Powered by the same solar that’s powering my water well pump.
I would love to have one of these! I’d use it to create a NAS that I can connect to using my home VPN.
I’m learning about machine learning and would love to utilize the pi and camera for object detection. I have a birdhouse project I’m wanting to creat that will utilize the camera and object detection to detect birds.
Upgraded pihole for me
Hi, thanks for this. I’m not exactly sure what I’ll use it for but I’m leaning towards birdnet.
I need to set up Octoprint on the pi and use the camera to remotely monitor my 3D printer!
I’ll use the pi as a home computer for my kids to tinker on
I’m building a classroom supply of pi’s (12 or 24), to use to start ad python and physical computing class for high school. Funding and supplies are tight!
Im not very technical so I’d give it to my friend who is interested in buying one.
I’d use this to record myself baking a Pumpkin Pi
Good luck to everyone! Thanks for doing this.
If I win, I’ll use the rpi for server equipment
I would do some AI and ML stuffs in that like a waste segregator
I’m aiming to setup an audiophile solution..
I have some fern plants on my back patio that some small birds love to make nests in. I’d like to setup a bird watcher with the Raspberry Pi 4 and camera to capture all that goes on there.
I would really like to set up octoprint for my Ender 3 Pro to be able to monitor my prints.
I would use this as a basis for a home security project I have in mind. This is a dickery free comment section.
I want to create an Android TV box
I would love to use this to learn on and use at my house. Moving my Blinks to my Fiancé’s place so that she can use the more consumer friendly camera’s and allowing me to geek out.
I would use it to let my son tinker with it and learn more about robotics and object detection
I would use is as a dns server at my parents house.
I would like to use this Pi and camera in developing programs that can record scientific data of all kinds using AI. Specially in recording bird populations.
Would love a Raspberry Pi to setup as a dedicated PiHole and would use the camera module to build an object detection system, just for fun, or maybe to add into my existing Home Assistant system 👀!
I’ll use this to tinker more! Thank you!
I woukd use the pi as a remote control for a 3D Printer
Hi I’m trying to get my 7 & 9yo kids into programming and robotics. This would be a great opportunity for them
Home security project. Pretty sure my neighbors run a grow operation.
Convert this into a magic mirror, and use the camera for presenance detection for personalised responses
I use this to monitor my new Prusa MK4 prints. Hope I win!!!
I just passed the General Ham Radio test today and I would use this new Raspberry Pi to explore SDR.
Hi Andre! I will use the pi in a home automation project. Love your work on rpilocator!
Gonna use it for my first home assistant!
I would probably use the pi 4 for a sidekick64 board I’ve been looking to buy, would have to think on what to use the camera for, maybe an ai powered object tracking camera?
Make a MAME cabinet!
I’d use it for a home server to share files and maybe host some games for my kids.
I would use it for programming projects and to teach my kids more about programming/electronics.
I would use it to show the progress of my 3d printer but also to show YouTube videos in my garage.
Try some photography using them together
I have a lot of engineering projects that I can use this on, but what I most want to use it for is a low-power music server from my home
I’d use the pi and camera to create an inside security camera that I can access anywhere to be able to check on my animals.
Thank you so much for your hard work on rpilocator.
I will use this one to track my dog’s rutine while I’m not at home. Just as initial touch with AI
Learn kubernetes! Wooo!
Great 👍
I would use it to build a new music end point for roon.
It will go into my Amiga PiStorm accelerator!
In! Thanks for running rpilocator
I am working on a photobooth project right now, I would love to upgrade the pi on it 🙂
Looking to run a pin as with this!
I’m going to use it to teach my kiddo how to program.
Just stumbled on this site and other like it.
Can’t wait to get a hold of my first rqspbeery pi to try tinkering for real.
Would like to work on a gaming or music production cyberdeck.
I plan on using object identification ML models and running VMs on it
I just started working on Raspberry pi and there is so much things to do so i would just try different projects online
I would love to have one.. here in Brazil Aliexpress is the only option.. and the price is absurd :\
I appreciate you! I’m glad you made a thingy to bring a little light during the Pi-ocalypse
Definitely a fun way to give back to the community. We use a Raspberry Pi 3+ to play music at night for our daughter. We started it years ago when she was transitioning away from her mobile/sound machine. She is now ten and the Raspberry Pi is still going strong!
I would use the Pi4 and camera to create time lapse videos of the weather over the mountains here in Montana.
This is awesome. I’d either use it for Octoprint, RetroPie, or maybe as a backup computer for my wife.
Would use this for an octoprint or klipper setup on my elegoo neptune.
I would use these two components to create a currency identifier as part of a group project at school.
Looking to build some emulation for my kids. Been trying to get my hands on a Pi for a while!
Hello there, I will use the pi for a custom doorbell, or has a mongodb server, or for some fun at the garden…. So many things
This is not spam :). I would make a dash cam, Home security cam, or a baby Monitor cam.
I want to play around with some image classification algorithms with it. I want to pair it with a Google Coral device if I can get ahold of one.
I’d probably get some nice enclosures for Pi 4B 8GB and the camera and point it to the sky for some weather and nighttime observations.
I want to use the pi for making and hosting different things that will help me with my cs education.
Love what you do.
I’d like to use the RPi4 & Cam-v3 to do time lapse of my plants growing!
This is super cool, thank you!
I just love it
This is awesome, I would probably install Umbrel on it and use it as a Bitcoin full node
I’m intend to build a airplane and ship tracking/spotting Pi
Thanks for the giveaway! I always need another Raspberry Pi 🙂
I’d be interested in trying to setup a USB-over-IP system with this for a fiber laser!
best of luck to everyone and thank you for all that you’re doing!
Awesome giveaway. I would split them up. I would upgrade my octoprint with the camera and then I’d love to put the pi to use on my home network and even perhaps helping me understand and be comfortable with docker.
I’d love to use it as a learning medium, probably some kind of home server type of deal and experiment with friends. Not sure about the camera, but would find a use for that!
I’d likely upgrade my go box computer.
Looking to do home automation and a media server for music and videos
Looking to make a home router with one and possibly nvr for camera in the future.
I would use this for a new Plex Server at my house.
I would love to have a Pi for a birdnet pi and possibly a feeder camera.
Appreciate your rpilocatoe! Great work and very helpful!
I’d like to use the raspberry for my home automation and object detection.
Best, Patrick
Self Hosting & Creating Projects to get me more prepared for my degree
Would use it for an ML project including image processing.
Would like to use the Pi to set up an OpenWRT router running on Pimox and use the camera for my RPi 3 on my 3D printer.
A machine learning project to ID raccoons who come onto my porch at night and bother my cat!
Hey makerbymistake, nice job on rpilocator,
I’d like to use the camera and pi as a replacement for my octopi setup. I could do with the extra ram and the camera would let me record and stream the printer over web view
I’m posting this again because I think it replied to a comment instead of adding a new comment to the post for some reason.
Awesome giveaway! Want to build an emulator and this would be perfect for it. Thanks for all you do.
I’ll be using this for a Hi-Fi audio project
I appreciate your work and would use the Pi and the cam as a replacement for my broken door cam.
Awesome giveaway would be super grateful since my pies micro usb port shaped off smh
I want to implement autonomous car to play with my cat
I am working on building an IRL Kart Racer similar to some people favorite Smintendo game. Each kart will be running a pi so I would use this as pi #1 for the project to begin building out the first kart.
Either the start of a weather station or another server
If I win, I’ll use the pi to manage a server room and the use the camera for security 🙂
What an awesome giveaway. That’s very generous of you after all the work you do. Thank you.
I’d like to setup home automation hub. This might be more than I need, but would be a great.
I’d look to build my own birdhouse cam, to monitor one of the birdhouses that I built this year.
I would use it homebridge and scripted. Thanks!
Thanks for this awesome giveaway! I want to use this to build a remote PiKVM system!
I would most likely be making a rgb controller
I want to use it as a kubernetes controller to start a home lab
Awesome! I’d like to use this for a security device for my coffee shop to help keep my baristas safe and denture any would be jerks
Thanks for the giveaway and rpilocator!
I would use the pi as a dorm server, which i’m currently missing, to host a web and file sharing servers, possibly a vpn as well. I would use the camera module on my Voron 0.2 3d printer.
Looking to set up a PiNAS and would use the camera to see who’s at the front door when I’m in my home office or basement tinkering.
Cool! I have a couple of projects in mind. I’d either use it for a PiHole or for an upcoming 3D printer build.
I’d end up using it on one of my printers. Perfect setup having a Pi and Camera to control and monitor a 3D printer remotely
Thank you very much for the giveaway and rpilocator André!
I would use the Raspberry Pi with the camera for object recognition, facial detection, security, and time lapse photography. Without a camera I would use the Raspberry Pi for my study lab, with containers pfSense, NAS, personal cloud, and a Pi-hole.
Looking forward to building a home security system.
i will use PI4 as media DLNA & Upnp server (Asset by Illustrate)
Home security
Awesome giveaway thanks for giving back to the community. I will create an AI doorbell
Wow, thanks for that giveaway. I Will use its as a miniPC and for hosting servers
I appreciate what you’re doing here! Love this service!
Ditto…… Would love to win an RPI four with eight?
Let’s a gooooo!
Will use this to create my own wiki space and NAS
Thanks for the giveaway!
I would like to use the Pi4 and camera module to build a project with my son that would take pictures of any moving object in the sky and also create a time lapse of our beautiful sky!
You’re awesome. I’ll probably put it in my RC plane, for an HD digital video feed.
“To be quite honest, I don’t even have a newsletter” ROTFL!
I would use for BOINC and make a bird house camera.
I don’t know what I’d use it for now but I’m thinking it may be retro pie.
Nice idea!
I would go for a smart alarm with intrusion alert on detected movement as well as ad adblocker DNS on a couple of dockers.
Testing my open source Pi based project.
If I win, I’m going to build a cool ADSB flight tracker that I saw on reddit 🙂 thanks!
Thanks for the giveaway and good luck to everybody.
I would like to use the Pi as a home security camera for my parents house, with features like motion detection and AI face recognition.
Rollin the dice, don’t normally win these things, but been feelin lucky.
I would like to make an automated vehicle with AI vision since it’s 2 side of programming I did not touch.
I’ll use the pi to create a camera to watch my dog when I leave the house!
If I won, I’d use the Pi and camera for a Voron build.
I would use the set for a security camera for my home.
Excellent that you still have an RPi 4! If I win this one then I will give the one I have to a friend. He gave up getting one because of poor availability. It would be a great surprise for him 😃
This site is a lifesaver! I could not find a RPI zero W in stock using raspberry pi’s own site. If I won the giveaway, I would use it to build a computer for my sister. I will use the camera to monitor my 3d printer.
I’d use it to make a digital photo frame for my girlfriend
I would use it with 3D printing somehow. Thanks!
I need one of these for an Octopi one of these days.
The cake is a lie, bit I can has pi!
I will use it for my other projects, especially streaming and ffmpeg stuffs. Thank you!
The Pi will probably be used to update my media server (running an old Pi3 at the moment), and the camera will go in my 3D printing cabinet.
I would use it to setup print monitoring on my 3d printer!
PiHole!
Hello. Can’t wait! Thanks for the awesome tracker!
Raspberry pi is awesome…so is your future website ( I used a pi4 to build a time machine so i know these things)
Regular dudes rule!!!
Thank you for what your have given the community.
The PI is for my 3DPrinter to work with. The camera is for me ro watch it work. 🙂
Way to spark joy in times of Pi shortages! I would use for an OpenCV project currently running on an Intel NUC integrated with a Google Pi.
I might use it with android auto in the car with an in cabin camera to keep an eye on the kids.
My kids just did a little project with having caterpillars turn into butterflies and a time lapse photo set woulda been killer…. So using this set up for some time lapse photography would be fun.
I’d love to use the RPi4 as I downside my homelab and move into an RV in the next two months. I need something to power the homelab while I crunch down on the used watts.
Fun giveaway! Building a touch-sensitive smart mirror.
Last week my wife and I finally closed on our first house. I told myself that when I finally get a house I would setup a home assistant but now that I have a house in need a Pi. I have a Pi4 8gb (only thing I could find) for a PiHole. So I’ll swap that out with the 4gb and start learning how to do home automation and setup my first little homelab.
Would love to win this so I could set up to use with octoprint for my 3d printer.
I’d use this probably as a file server. Thanks for the opportunity!
I’ll use it coupled with the camera for a surveillance system on my home. Thanks for giving back!
Would use it to estimate pulse rate and blood pressure using data from the camera. Curious to find out if it works 😉
I would use the camera to tinker since I haven’t used one before. The Pi 4 would probably go to a small server to simulcast an info display to several HDMI tvs.
Retro Pi
awesome!
Didn’t realize I needed to comment why I want it.
Make a pihole and NAS sever
I would like to use this to create a retro gaming station, or to create a home lab server.
I have way too many projects that have been waiting on a Pi! I cannabalized my power monitoring Pi for a different project and could really use something powerful to run the databases for that!
I would like to use to set up Home Assistant and use the camera module with it, thanks!
I would love to receive a pi and camera to go with my 3D printer network and install klipper along with the camera to install inside the printer! Praying for a win! 🙏 I don’t have great luck though but I figured I would try! Very cool giveaway though! Good luck everyone! 🙂
I would love to win! I would use this Pi as a NAS server, and would have to think about how to use the camera. I’ll come up with something. While I’m here, let me say thank you for the work you’ve done. I was able to pick up a Pi 4 4GB as a result of your help.
I would use them to update my existing garage door controller setup.
The extra horse power would definitely be useful there.
I’d probably use it as a pihole and for surveillance or perhaps as a retrocade type thing
I would put it in my 3d printer!
I’ll be installing Home Assistant on it and who knows what the camera will be used for, but probably something techy related to Home Assistant.
I will be using it to run a RapidMiner Real-Time Scoring agent.
I have a project to create a robot with a RPi4, the camera will fit perfectly in this project.
You have helped me finally find some of the parts I’ve needed, Thx!
Add another ADS-B receiver somewhere
I’ll use it to learn Python.
Weather station with an outdoor time lapse camera.
I’ve been meaning to try out building a PiHole but I also want o experiment with conductive paint/ink for an interactive science engagement activity.
Octoprint, as I only have one of my printers with Octoprint since they have been so scarce to get and I can’t use it with a PiStorm to accelerate my Amiga
Would like to figure out how to make a RTSP security camera streaming to a local NAS.
Currently learning Python, I want to setup a testing/staging enviroment on a Pi and expose a couple of services for my home
I would like to use the pi as a remote control for my 3D printer
I would like to create a robot which cleans the toilet. The robot would use the camera and the controls would reside on pi.
Damn. i want one for my college project.
My children are just starting to learn programming at school so I’d set this up for them to tinker with at home.
Try from France 🫶🤞
Looking to build a motion sensing diy security camera.
Would be really nice to win!
This is perfect for running octoprint, sign me up.
What a legend, so many uses for it
Homeassistant upgrade
Would be using it for a home automation system.
Would probably use it for multiple applications
this looks like a great opportunity for a home security system
I’d like to use it for an object recognition project!
Jessir
As an amateur stargazer, this males a perfect companion for any night time star and moon tracking sessions. Very useful if I need a whole night timelapse vldeo while i sleep.
I’d love to use this for a project of making a budget smart cat feeder, my Dad has two cats who are always eating the wrong food and when I’ve talked to him he’s said that it’s really expensive getting one of these solutions that use microchips. So why not use image recognition 🙂
If I’d win this I’d use this setup to learn more about automation and Linux.
I’d love to use this to continue my quest of self-hosting all the things!
Hi there! I’d like to develop a full featured and modular surveillance system that makes use of libcamera instead of raspicam (that have been deprecated)
I would definetly be able to speed up my university thesis project where I try to tinker with distributed computing on graph theory! I just wasn’t quick enough to grab an avaiable one from the uni stashes :'( and I’m stuck with ESP32s
A pi with a camera would give me a good excuse to mess around with image recognition AI or tracking stuff. I’d love to be able to figure out how to have it start recording video when a bird lands on my bird feeder, just as an exercise for myself.
I am trying to get my hands on a RPI with 8GB for months… The 4GB model is working at its limits. I haven’t worked with cameras yet, but that sounds exciting.
Thank you for the giveaway and running rpilocator!
I’d like to use the for home assistant automations.
I would use it as a replacement desktop/retrogaming setup connected to my tv, the camera will be used for video calls with my friends and relatives. Thanks for this giveaway and for Rpilocator!
I’d use it to run octoprint on it for my 3d printer. The cam for monitoring it and some nice timelapses 🙂
Hello All
I would like to use The Rpi-4b and camera to time laps capture the many humming birds that come to the feeders on my deck
I currently use a Rpi-3b to monitor my Acurite weather stations and it works great
Will use it to monitor my 3d printer
I’d use it to run OpenCV and finally try get to grips with object detection.
If I win I would love to use the Raspberry and camera for developing a home security system
I would like to use it to speed up my HomeAutomation. Would be great to win!
I’m planning to build some robots.
I would use it in my 3D printer.
I’d like to have more self-hosted in-house monitoring for home assistant etc.
I don’t need another Pi or camera at the moment, please give it to someone else.
I’m only here for the newsletter if it ever exists!
I would love this to work on an ML based animal tracker to keep an eye on my very shy cats at home
I would use the RPi as a k3s master node for 3-node RPi k3s cluster. Thank you for all your help with locating RPis and for doing this giveaway.
I would like to use the pi 4 and camera to reach myself machine vision and machine learning and eventually turn them into a robot :3
I will use the pi and camera to keep an eye on my hamster while I am at work.
Thanks for the giveaway! I would like to use the Pi for a portable DJ setup I’m working on and for hosting!
Thanks for this opportunity
I would like to run pimox on it
I’d love to use it as a server
Will use it to test my apps made for SBCs.
As a student staying in India. There really nowhere to go other than going online to buy these best stuff. As I am not financially capable to buy a full robust laptop or computer I would just be happy just for the computer but as there is always a shortage I am not able to buy. So it would be really helpful to get this as I would be extremely happy to use this as an everyday desktop computer
Need this for smart home set up!!
Thank you for the rpilocator site! I’ve been looking for a Raspberry Pi for a new ADS-B receive setup and was surprised to see that the Pi’s were in such short supply. We’ve already used your website to buy two Pi zeros, and I continue to look for a Pi 3 B.
I want to use it for a Donkey Car
Thanks for running this giveaway! I was wanting a Pi to setup Home Assistant. With this I could add a cam feed too.
I will use this for my 3D-printer to print and remotely observe how it’s going!
That’s a nice idea. I was just looking for new RPI.
Thank you for the RPILOCATOR site.
I plan to utilize the Raspberry Pi (RPI) as my primary development system as I expand my skillset into the realm of maker projects. This single-board computer will serve as a valuable tool in my endeavors, allowing me to delve into various areas of interest I have yet to explore. I would greatly appreciate an RPI.
Plan on using the RPi as a 4k media player with Libreelec.
I’d donate to local STEM program
I would like to use the Raspberry Pi and camera module to monitor my sump pump in the basement to keep an eye on and get notified of rising water levels and avoid another flooded basement should the pump fail again. Keep up the good work.
Build media player
dreaming of my AI patrol robot
Data Warehouse or deep learning
Thanks for the rpilocater service, and for the giveaway! I would use the Rpi4 board to serve as a remote desktop.
Thank you for this opportunity and all the work on rpilocator! I plan on using it to build a baby monitor that isn’t over priced, cheaply made, insecure garbage.
I want to use the Pi camera as a main security camera for my front door.
Thanks for doing this! I’m planning on using it to run a 3D printer and the cam to monitor prints.
Hi, thanks for the opportunity. I’d use the rpi for home automation, including the camera.
Thanks for the giveaway. I’m hoping to use this for Amateur Radio. I want to use it to run digital modes, keep a contact log, run an APRS digipeater, and run hamclock when I do radio out in the field on battery power.
I would use it for my 3d printer to run Klipper and monitor my print with the camera
Oops I forgot lol, I want to use it for personal projects at home, and maybe one day build an AI desk robot with it!
I’m going to use it to create an AREDN node – link to an emergency data network.
Will use for a robot arm!
I would use the pi for hosting a 24/7 webserver and python scripts.
Gonna use it for a home nas for my plex server! Just got my first pi zero for pihole.
I want to setup remote monitoring for my 3d printer.
Kubernetes single node cluster
I would use it as an OctoPrint Time lapse server for 3 different printers. The 8gb ram may be overkill…
I will use this for an AllStar Link Node/HUB. Thank You
This would be awesome! Especially after I got the short end of the stick with that last pi zero 2w issue! I want to build a magic mirror for the kitchen as a home assistant and reminder for all the things I inevitably forget I need to do!
Run computer vision AI models on a drone for both fun and learning ML
Looking forward to moving my Ender-5 to Klipper. Thanks!
Try to create a face recognition that will recognize my face and use ai to chat with me. When I wake up and it sees me great me or tell what’s new in the news this morning or afternoon
Who has two thumbs and wants a PI? This guy!
Thank you for the opportunity, I’d love to create a magic mirror and see what other projects I could pair it with. Possibly a task tracker or weather report so I can be prepared for the day.
Hi, first of all thank you for the opportunity !
I’ve been on the hunt for a 4 w/ 8Gb and the new camera to mount on my telescope and make a software (already started) to control the telescope and take pictures of the sky ! My 1st gen Pi is running pihole and pivpn but my camera died few years ago 😔
A good platform for APRS and weather station…
My son would love this so that he can make a wildlife camera to snap the birds feeding in the garden.
He would also like to try out docker on the pi and perhaps use it as a swarm if he gets any more pi’s.
He also likes the idea of running a minecraft server.
Perhaps he can do all three! 😀
Honestly I have so many Ideas, my current pi 0 has recently gotten tied up in a long term project, and with a pi 4 I could do some more calculation heavy stuff, or run a NAS via it.
I’m not sure what I would do with it yet. But I have ideas
If I won the Raspberry Pi 4, I would use it for my self-driving car grad project. Winning would allow me to integrate the powerful and versatile Raspberry Pi 4B into my prototype.
Sounds great! Thanks for making rpilocator. I’d want to turn this into a home media center!
such a great idea, I use pi for home assistant.
I’d love another raspberry pi to continue to experiment and learn literally everything about electrical, from the fundamental electron up to high level virtualization and front dev stuff. Ever since I’ve set my first raspberry pi up as a server for my webpage and Arduino command center Ive dialed down the experimenting for fear of wrecking my only RPI4. This would be awesome
Definitely used in a 3d printer build
I don’t have a specific idea, but I plan to try many things with it just to learn how to do things, like setting up a VPN or a home NAS.
For a project with my kids that’s been on hold for a long time due to shortages
Thanks for giveaway. Plan to use the PI4 and camera as a security device.
Will use it to build a security camera that performs object detection
Awesome giveaway!
Yet another 3D printer
I would use the pi4 and camera module to run home assistant! :))
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I would create a smart baby monitor, to spy on my newborn 😉
Learning and experimentation!
To create a robot servant, obviously!
I would use the Pi for a Pi-hole and File server and/or Media center.
Wow, thanks for the giveaway. This would be great to learn some Dev on.
I want to update my old 3d printer!
Looking forward to learning how to use it!
I’d love to use this for a smart mirror project!
I’m a visitor
Using for octoprint
Want to convert my 3d printer over to klipper firmware and need a host to drive the printer.
I would use it to host an octoprint server
Good luck to everyone. I’d be using it as an octoprint controller and monitor.
I am recently retired and picked up a Raspberry Pi 3B to “play” with. I have been trying to get a Pi 4 for awhile now, so this would be a great addition. THANKS for RpiLocator!
I would use it for vineyard monitoring
Nice giveaway!
I’d make a Pi Camera Stream (aka “ Remote Viewing Camera”) if I win these.
This is my chance to thank you for the amazing tool you’ve built.
It is the BEST way to locate RPi, and it really helped me during the shortage.
P.S. Is it only me, or are we really seeing the end of that?
I’ve wanted to replace my 4GB Pi with an 8 for 2 years now.
I would use this pi to create a cluster and the camera module for my 3d printer pi setup.
BirdNet Pi node + feeder cam!
Planning to use it to track the weather outside my window to see how much sunlight my house plants are getting 🙂
I would love to try to make some sort of smart doorbell.
I would use the pi to set up pihole and I’d use the camera to upgrade the camera on my 3D printer running octoprint.
This would be used to monitor and run my 3d printer. Just starting on my pi learning journey!!!
So nice of you to organize the giveaway.
I’ll use it to test my new Manta 8 from BTT, using Klipper instead of Marlin, and monitoring with the camera.
I need a pi to build a greenhouse irrigation system for my garden and the camera for my Octoprint pi.
I’d like to use it to help me play around with opencv and tensorflow. Would make me a better developer.
I will use it as a media server/security camera
I always have a need for a Pi for some ridiculous idea for a project.
This is huge!
In my country it’s very hard to get a pi. So I would like to use a pi 4 for machine learning, home automation and so much more!
It would go to bring a 3d printer to life!
Wow, a rare Pi 4!
Certainly will replace the older one with all sorts of Smarthome software on it.
Build by own personal server!
I would use the pi and camera as a home server and home automation/security camera.
I would use it for a ham radio project.. I’ve been trying to get one forever now with no luck.. This would be such a blessing you have no idea..
I’d like a Pi too to make a cluster for my homeserver ! Thanks you very much for your very useful tool which helped me a lot to find a Pi in the mess that Raspberry Pi market has become.
I would use the pi to either set up home assistant or pihole, depending on whether I can get my hands on another pi. I would use the camera to upgrade the one I have on my 3D printer running octoprint. Thanks for doing this!
I would use the Pi to set octopi for my 3D printer.
I would use this to learn about home assistant, AI, and Chat GPT or some sort of image recognition solutions.
retro pi
I want to build a rig with pi and camera to do sky surveys
I would love to use the pi home assistant and a few other services like adguardhome and emqx(mqtt)
Home assistantt and/or media server
I would use it for my 3 3d printers
I would use it as my Octoprint host and camera monitor.
Thank you so much for this opportunity! I think I will probably use it as a “domotic box” and use the camera as a surveillance system, or use it as an android tv, or maybe as a game server. I’m not sure yet, there’s so many things I want to do!
I’d use it to get my projects off the ground, like the PocketCrypto & Cryptofon, since both would use Ramdisks to store decrypted data and thus could use the added RAM very well
I would probably use it on some home automaton project or build NAS around it.
I’d use it to remote control my 3d printer!
I would use to drive my lights with qlc+ in concert and take some pictures. Rock n roll!!
This would be perfect as a plex server! I would use the camera as a motion sensor to light up the movie posters when it senses movement
I am mentoring a group of students that are trying to make an assistive device for the elderly, which may have uses outside of that target demographic as well. They only have a RPi 3B+ to develop their prototype with, and have been running into some difficulties with memory usage because of this. Being able to provide them with this board would greatly ease their development
I will use it for 3d printer monitoring
Too perfect. Frankly I’d like to be able to upgrade my old RPi B :/ and let my son tinker with something that has a bit more oompf!
I’d like to use a RaspberryPI 4 to control my 3D printer with Klipper
Dedicated video conf station?
More likely video camera bird box.
The Pi itself would immediately be put to use to several projects: 1) Firing up the PDP-11 replica (https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11) that I got myself earlier this year, 2) I am also looking for an easy platform to learn more about developing embedded operating systems, and 3) would like to play around more with real-time image processing for some later DIY modifications of my telescope.
I think I would use it to run a bot for my small discord server with my friends
I’d probably use it for klipper.
Nice of you to giveaway such a cool device, especially given the actual supply situation. I would use it to run a Voron printer
Perfect for that replacement NAS I need to build…
I want to make a small battery powered modelling amp using the pi with modep and a sound shield.
I plan to use this with birdnet at the nature center I work at to try (along with visual observations) to measure peaks and valleys of the migration of certain songbirds.
I would use the raspberry pi to build a 3D printer and donate it to my local community since they done so much for me. I want to give back to the community.
I’m trying to learn new ways I can use a pi and tinker with different things like RetroPie, pihole, etc.
Home automation
Wireguard, adguard, bookstack and various media apps. Good luck all!
The RPi4 would be used to run Home Assistant, and the camera with an older RPi as a camera trap for wildlife 🙂
I got a zero thanks to the rpi locator. I would use this in my amateur radio hobby. Thanks!
I would like to use the RPi4 to monitor my home network including services provided in a low power/high uptime scenario. Then vpn tunnel to allow for wider access to the status devices and services tied to a domain.
I’d like a pi to edit content for other pi’s as cards etc 🙂
Most likely set it up as a Octoprint server and setup the camera for timelapse.
I would love to set up some sort of digital camera project. Thanks!
First of all, I appreciate your work on https://rpilocator.com, it’s helped me grab my first pi zero w.
I would create a simple cyberdeck-style computer to carry to my University, which would save me from lugging around my overpowered Beefmeister 9000 that’s been creating an IRL grandpa simulator-type situation with how bad my spine feels after carrying it.
Once again thanks for the site and keep up the good work m8 🙂
Building a Voron Trident and would use for Klipper and camera for remote monitoring!
Thanks for this amazing service you have created and the spirit of it. The giveaway is a great thing to do too! If I win I am going to install an O/S and pass it on to a person that needs a computer and does not have the means. The PI 4s are such a capable machine and only getting better!
I don’t have a Raspberry Pi 4 yet, but would like it to experiment with Zigbee, Matter and Home Assistant as well as other things
Thank you for running this site. If I won, my partner and I would use both to run and monitor a home-grown hydroponics setup.
Would probably give it to my nephew who is about to start high school; he and his friends can use it to create/edit their short videos!
Cool giveaway 🙂
Would use the pi to monitor the chicken pen in my basement.
I’d use it as a wildlife camera. Neat-o.
I would love use this with the small servos I have to try to set up a motion detect camera.
Probably low level arm experimentation. Eventually maybe homebrew telescope controller
I’d love to use this to replace my aging Logitech webcam from 2007. With the chance to have full control over the camera, this would be fun
I’d use mine to finish an open-source, hackable BBQ temperature probe project. Thanks for creating the rpilocator website!
I would love to use the pi4 and camera to make a dyi security system for my back porch, with automated lights and anti intruder audio.
I would use this to make a digital camera
I will be using the Pi4 to run an Outrun arcade machine multigame.
I need It to make a home server
I’m working on my bachelor thesis so I’d use it to make a proof of concept for my delivery truck management system. ADAS concepts to detect objects and help with the parking and telematics processing(collection and upload) for data analysis to help fleet managers with different statistics and live location of their trucks.
My granddaughter wants to get into robotics and I am into 3D resin printing. We’ve been looking at Raspberry PI’s together and that’s all she talks about. I can’t wait to work on projects with her.
Looking to build a touchscreen head unit for my car, OB2 connection and all.
I want to create a surveillance camera for my garden.
Nice service; thanks! I’ve been looking for a Pi4 to run OctoPi on a new SnapMaker printer.
Want to setup Home Assistant or possibly an Octopi controller.
Awesome initiative thanks for all your efforts in the community, I would use it to experiment with python for more “embedded” usage
RPi4 would replace my RPi3 running home assistant. The Camera would go in my garage attached to the RPi3 to monitor the state of my garage door, replacing a wyze cam and making all parts of my smart home local!
Did someone say free pi?
To set up Home Assistant or to convert my 3D printer to run Klipper.
Thank you for the giveaway! I’d like to use it to set up a new media center for my parents as a present. Thank you!
I was hoping to detect my cat coming home, but so far couldn’t even get a Pi
I’m looking to set up Octoprint and Home Assistant soon and this would help make it happen.
My Phd project is feedback on basic and advanced life support. Likely we will integrate it in a simulated patient monitor box for training nurses and physicians.
I’ve been trying to get my hands on a Pi4 I’d love to win one.
It’s one year I am trying to buy one! Great opportunity. I want to setup my own NAS.
I would love to use these for computer vision as I am currently engaged in a agriculture based project and hope to incoprorate a raspberry pi and camera module for my project!
I’d really like to work on some OpenCV projects with the camera, I have an old one that doesn’t focus and have not been able to get a pi in the last couple of years.
I learnt about so many possible use cases of rpi only after following rpilocator on Twitter.
I used to think it is a tinkerer’s toy but you can build so many useful projects out of it.
Will be using for IoT / Home Assistant automation integration
I’d use it to play with adding photo capture to a BirdNet-pi installation. Or maybe as a more general wildlife camera.
I would use the Pi either to make my gf the smart mirror she has wanted for a while or a NAS just not sure yet!
I would like to create something along the lines of personal assistant. I would like to connect it up to some big display which will be able to display some useful informations – from my schedule for following day to lyrics of song I am currently listen on spotify. I would alse like to display some statistics conmected with my daily activity e.g. number of daily steps and my PC stats. It could also give some reminders about drinking water or taking a break from work. My assistant could also control my RGB light bulb. Last but not least the assistant would be controlled with PC app written in Python.
Wow very nice of you to do this. I would LOVE TO have a Pi4 8GB and camera. There are many great ways to use this in ham radio!
I’d use it for an octopi server!
I’d use it as a frontend server for the small webstore I’m making.
would definitely like to give it a try to enter the giveaway all the way from india
Great Work with your Website recommended it to all my coworkers 👍
I am currently switching from only home-server to cloud-home server and a PI 4 would be a good low-power fit for it (I am replacing a power monster laptop) .
The camera would be used with my old PI for octoprint.
Looking to do some vision tensorflow stuff.
I haven’t had the opportunity to mess around with a camera on a Pi yet — I’d like to tinker around with human presence detection for smart home controls, etc.
Would use it in an upcoming printer build
I would use it as a NAS or for home assistant.
Integrate pihole dns. Vpn and Web server
Want to make a robot friend for my baby
Would like to build a security camera for the backyard that also monitors which dog barks to alert my neighbors and myself which dog is barking.
I’m designing a magic mirror alarm clock for my daughter’s birthday, the camera will be the opportunity to try something with OpenCV
I would love to setup a home assistant with pi hole and use the camera as an movement detector.
I would use it to run Ubuntu server with some Docker stuff and hopefully downsize from a larger server that is overkill.
I’m not a boot and would be honored to win this prize! Thank you for your generosity to the community! I would use this as a bee hive monitoring station with temperature and humidity monitors as won a the visual camera.
I need another pi!
I want to setup home assistant using Docker
Ai cat detector & scarer.
I would build a retro handheld gaming console with a 3D printed body.
I can’t wait to get my hands on a RPi 4 to build a ROS enabled robot!
I want to build a bird feeder camera with vision recognition to register the birds visiting my garden.
I wan to advance my knowledge in using it and how to use ion other ways
love rpilocator, love what you do.
I will use the 4B as a remote server to allow me to remotely monitor my property.
I would use the pi to service some lightweight websites at home. Unsure what I’ll do with the camera but I’ll figure something out.
I need to build a PiCade. I think the camera would be great to take vids of the people playing it. Either that or a HamPi for the ham shack.
So cool of you to do this! I’d make a night vision camera / stream for my mum to watch wildlife in her back garden
Hello, would use it for self hosting
I’d like to upgrade my home made tablet. 2gb was not enough! Also interested to read the newsletter
Hi.
I would use this with my coral so I will make an AI camera platform.
It would be useful to complete my RPi cluster.
I would use it for a boring DNS server to replace my older RP2B.
Worth a try i say!
I have a half rack network cabinet and several enclosures wich was ment for mounting several rpi’s to start my homelab. Corona showed up and suddenly it was not possible to get the rpi’s.
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I’d use it for Web scraping for a research project
Hi, i doubt i’ll get picked but i would build a bunch of cool projects: )
I would like to use it to make a Minecraft server.
Will make a bartender robot.
The pi4b would fit right there at the center of the ROV Im̀ building!
See if I can use it for object recognition in my little project.
I would use it to build a solar powered webserver hosting a website showing the view from my window
They would become the brains and eye of a lawn mowing robot.
Hello, I’m usually check a availability of SBC because need one for volumio, second for openELEC and third for home automation…
Definitely wanted to get a MotionEye OS up and running for a while now.
Hi there! I’ve been searching awhile for a Pi 4B 8GB to make a classic retro gaming system for my three kids (all under five years old). I was hoping to go as far as N64 but might just settle for NES and SNES because I like that the controller is smaller to fit their tiny hands :). I’m not sure how I would use the camera, but I’d be willing to search around online for some ideas! Thanks for throwing together this site and the giveaway. Somehow I’ve been unlucky and keep missing the pi’s when the come back in stock.
I will use the pi and camera to help with 3D printing and monitoring the prints to ensure nothing goes wrong.
Hi! I would just love to get my hands on a new Pi board so that I can retire my Rpi2 😉
I recently got a Caribou Lite SDR which I’ve been trying to get to work on a Pi Zero cause that’s all I have. It works, but it’s just not powerful enough to demodulate signals without stuttering. Hopefully the additional power of a Pi 4 would make this work well.
I would use the rapsberry pi to run octoprint and klipper for my 3D printer and use the camera to monitor the printer.
I would like to use the raspberry pi as a desktop to write and test Python code, I am new to programming.
I’d like to move home server stuff off a power hungry and noisy old intel box. I’d also like to play with frigate…
Been wanting to build a smart mirror.
Thanks a lot for the whole rpilocator initiative. Would use this Pi4 as a desktop replacement of course! 🙂
My twitching station!
I am incredibly passionate about technology and the Raspberry Pi 4 would be a game-changer for me. I have some projects in mind for the community aswell 🙂 Wish luck to everyone!
So cool to do a giveaway 🙂
Thanks for the rpilocator website it’s definitely been mega helpful. I need an updated board for my Startux so I’d use it for that.
What an amazing offer to get hands on he hard to find Pi. Good Luck!!! This will be for Home Assistant Docker and Nas. Camera will be for Security and wildlife.
Well I just had a storm, and my RPI fried, so here is nothing… Thanks for your website.
I’d use it to install Klaipeda for my 3d printer
I would use it to finally build a Voron printer.
I started playing around with a Pi Zero and a cheap amazon cam. Placed in a tiny window, high up on a wall with no other windows. I was having a lot of fun with my e-window until the Pi Zero died. I would love to give it another go, with some hardware upgrades. Andre, thank you for putting this locator together, and hosting this giveaway. Much appreciated.
A perfect solution to creating a wireguard server at home.
I am working on a video telephone for elderly people and dementia patients. During the current Pi shortage, I would use this Pi to build another prototype of the video telephone. Once I can swap it out against a Pi 4 with 1 or 2 GBs (that’s what I’m trying to base my “Grannophone” on), I would probably use it for some first steps with home automation/cloud-free voice recognition, since I already have a ReSpeaker 4-mic array that I originally wanted to use with a Pi 3. The camera would remain with the prototype, as it would be the first 3rd-gen version of the camera module that I can get my hands on, and it will be interesting to see how well the autofocus works for my intended use case.
Thanks for doing this! This would be a great addition to my 3d printing setup.
Using sola and all my control units sre separately installed with pi pico, need to integrate all data with web control, pi should work
Thanks for all you do for the community! I would use these items in my home lab, likely for Kubernetes work and machine learning.
I want to set it up as a remote temp and camera monitor for my pets while I am away.
I would use this to build a smartsecurity camera with face tracking capabilities.
I would use the pi as a wake-on-lan server for my home lab, a vpn server, and a small NAS for backups
Thank you for the gesture. I’ll be using it to build my home server that will run different services such as Pi-hole, Uptime Kuma, Jellyfin. It would be interesting to build up a stack or RPI4 and use them as NAS.
Printers need Pi
Waiting to get a Raspberry Pi as part of an Allsky camera project for astronomy use.
I would set it up as a camera so I can see what my cats get up to at night.
I’d like to set up Octoprint on the pi and use the camera to remotely monitor my 3D printer to make sure all goes well!
Getting started with raspberry!
Planning a more power efficient Logitech Media Server, and playing with a local CCTV store too.
Build a birdhouse for my nan to watch the birds she feeds everyday up close!
I want to make the most overkill nesting place for the brids she watches with IR lights for night, Led lights for day time viewing, temperature sensors and more!
I want to use it to set up automation in my house and who knows what else.
I would probably use the Pi 4B 8GB and the camera for a pycroft/home assistant placed in a 3d printed beer can in honor of Skippy the Magnificent.
I will use it to prototype a retro handheld
It will either be used as an outdoor Nature Cam or to read the utility meters. Or perhaps something else I didn’t think of. This is what I love about Raspberry Pi, it is so versatile not to mention highly reliable.
I’d use this for a computer vision project where I save and analyze over-the-board chess games.
Time to build a new travel Nas!
I use RPI4 for plex server and move Cam to RIP0w time cam
Have suffered from the shortage for almost 2 years. Worse than the pain of drug withdrawal.
Would love to set up a k3s cluster to setup a redundant automation server.
I absolutely love using pi finder on my way to making an arcade cabinet hope they come in stock soon
I’ve been wanting to create a camera system for my hummingbird feeder since the start of the pandemic, this would be perfect for me!
I’d use it for Docker to run Home Assistant, and our internal family recipe hosting using Mealie.
I’ll probably use the pi for retropie; not sure about the camera though. Might pair it up with my little robot car that I built some time ago with another pi.
Awesome!!!!
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I’ll use the PI to build a NAS server and home VPN.
I’d use the Pi as an upgrade for my 4GB model, and probably experiment with machine vision using the camera.
My old Pi will likely go to a friend who has a daughter interested in CS.
Great initiative, especially in a time of low stock. If I win I’ll probably replace my pi 3b+ as my home assistant host!
Probably use it to start a cluster.
Learning new things is the bestest!
VR/AR tracking
New node for k8s cluster
I would use them for a video doorbell and surveillance system in my house <3
Thank you, DPHacks for creating and maintaining the amazingly useful rpilocator! It has been very appreciated over the past couple years. Thank you!
As for that pi and camera, I would like to build a birdwatching project, or give to my children to learn computing and machine vision, or maybe use it to automate some indoor gardening projects. The possibilities are endless, as usual!
This would go perfectly in the voron 2.4 im planning!
Thanks!! Using a PI 4B to control a CNC and 3D printer build.
Use the Pi to setup a SatNogs ground station.
Your site has helped me to locate and purchase Pi Zero W.
I would upgrade my DIY NAS storage solution with photo processing capabilities and probably use the camera for video conferencing.
I’d like to set up the camera to watch my dogs play in the backyard, they get up to serious Zoomies some days.
Thank you so much for the Pilocator I would like a Pi to run my 3D printer (octopi) and the camera to make timelapses of my prints.
When do you start your news letter? I just got into hacking stuff together like you. I’d use the PI and camera to make a camera cluster for super duper slow mo video
Doing the thing
I would use it either for security camera or a cat camera. The latter sounds more fun.
I’d use it for a custom Android auto and car play head unit
That’s nice, I would love to monitor my racked 3D Printer with that pi&cam 🙂
This would be great for a security camera and pihole setup in my new apartment!
I want to try a small NAS solution using the pi.
I want it to connect with two tvs I have and make a stupid asf dual-tv setup
I want to experiment with docker on raspberry pi and run docker containers on my home network. Also want a secure jump box to get into my network
I hope to win this so that I can experiment with it. I’ve looked at all the add-ons and stuff you can buy for a Raspberry Pi and I’ve been trying to get one for MSRP for over a year now with no luck. I want to try building RC cars and having a portable emulator for old games. I think it would be a lot of fun to have.
I want to use the Pi 4B 8GB to run my website, as well as a program I have that required to be run 24/7. I would use the camera to be a facecam as well as maybe do something with AI.
I want to use the Pi for running Klipper on my 3d printer and the camera for watching prints remotely.
Love what you do!
I’ll use the pi for a smart home project
Hi this is so cool that you are doing this i love the website and check it all the time and have never owned a raspberry pi before as the ones I want are never in stock or have huge upcharges. I would use the pi and camera for octoprint/octopi or my 3d printer as I am not always with my printer and would like to use this to monitor and start new prints remotely and I might run Klipper in the future with it. Thank you for doing this and making the amazing website!
I would like to use the rpi for my shack computer, the camera can act as a source for video conferencing and as a source for SSTV
I have migraines that come on from bright sunlight at times. I would love to use the raspberry pi and camera hooked up to a large tv set on my wall that makes it look like a window so I can adjust the amount of light coming into my room
Appreciate the opportunity to have a chance at a pi.
Thanks for that!
I’m new to this, I’ll use the board to learn about pi and python 🙂
What a lovely competition, thank you very much! I would like to use the Pi for a personal server and the camera night turn into a bird nest observatory.
I’ve been wanting a second Pi in order to set up OctoPi!
Thanks for the amazing work, it has been vital for the community.
I want to give HomeAssistant a try.
I would like to connect it to my 3d printer, so I can give my laptop a rest. Thank you for the giveaway.
I would like to have this Pi setup as a dedicated OctoPi for my 3d printer and the camera would be the perfect addition to create amazing timelapse videos
I can finally try computer vision.
Would be using it for homelab and self hosting stuff.
I would use it for my second 3D Printer as OctoPrint
Try myself on a webserver or plex server, maybe even a controlle for my 3d printer with live webview.
I’d either build out my arcade console or upgrade the 3D printer. Thanks for helping us all!
Headless server & CLI learning!
I want to use it for learning
I will use the pi to run octoprint on my printer!
I want to use it for learning
I will use it to run a 4k TV slideshow.
Hello. I’d build an ADSB receiver.
I want to use it for Home Assistant
Would love to use it as a wildlife cam!
I want to develop my understanding of Telegraf, Grafaba and InfkuxDB to display my IoT sensor project data with an always on no moving parts low power server system.
I want to run one board that has home assistant, kodi and tailscale on it.
I want to use this Raspberry Pi to monitor and automate my coral reef tank. Increased reliability and water stability will allow me to expand from a hobby into an actual coral growth and restoration facility.
I would use it to add Klipper to my old CR-10 work horse.
I’ve been spinning up 3d printers with Klipper and have consumed all my RPIs in the process. Needless to say rpilocator has been incredible for sourcing. I’d probably not want to waste 8gb ram on a printer though and would want to develop some kind of IoT dashboard.
If I win I’ll use it as a SmartMirror server, Homebridge and Adguard. And probably as NAS.
I would use the pi and camera for a development robotics platform that I am making.
Good things you do !
It’s appraciated.
I would use the pi and camera to make a monitor for my dog and give it a treat when I am not home
new webcam
I would like to use the raspberry pi to experiment with a homemade NAS 🙂 good luck to everyone!!
I would use it for a 3D printer.
Hi 🙂
I would use it as a 3D printer controller running the Klipper firmware.
Did I win?
With the camera module, I’m thinking home security camera!
Completing my 4 Pi k3s setup. As for the camera … maybe a smart mirror? 🤔
I would like to get this RPI to realize some crazy hardware ideas that the Internet hasn’t seen yet! As a bonus I want to document it on the blog to give something back to community!
First time came across your website. Happily subscribe to your NL.
I use raspberry pi for retropie .
I would love to use that Pi board in my personal school project
I would set up a birdwatch camera for my backyard
I have a couple of projects I have in mind with the Raspberry Pi4B 8GB.
1. Use this as a development server I can SSH into for software development work for my thesis.
2. Use this as a portable computer I can plug into any display to get work done/almost like a laptop substitute/cyberdeck
3. As a data synchronizer – to sync documents and media across all my computers (desktop+laptop) connected on the same wireless.
4. When used with the camera, I would like to use it as a dedicated mini stream station – something that I can directly use for a streaming video feed – i.e. use the raspberry pi with the camera to get video through a capture card to my laptop that can do the secondary processing.
5. I could also use the combination as a project to teach ARM64 programming, going a step further to create and demonstrate programs using complex resources like the camera.
And that’s just what I can recall right off of the bat.
Octoprint! Obviously 😀
Make night vision googles
I want to use the raspberry pi to do cybersecurity labs. I am doing help desk work and hope that doing cybersecurity homelabs would help get me out of help desk. My family’s house was foreclosed on and I had to vacate the house earlier this year because of it.
I’ll use the RPI4 to upgrade my HomeAutomation and Media Center setup
I would use it for a microscope to track my bacterial cultures for my research project
Looks great. I use R Pis in many home/office applications.
Thats an awesome giveaway. I would use it for my 3d printers
So far I have 2 projects in mind for the Pi. A weather data / air quiality station and a timelapse camera.
I plan to use it as a Linux box for controlling robots.
This is a nice giveaway. I’m planning to use it on a pikvm setup.
I would finally be able to set up an Octopie server for my 3D printer, and replace my bricked Pi 3B that hosted Homeassistant and PiHole. I’ve been really looking forward to getting my automations back up and running!
I would use it to upgrade my current server because I have to alternate between BeamNG.Drive and Minecraft.
Amazing idea!!
I want to make a Raspberry VPN Router and adapt the camera to recognize my face to access
I’ll probably use it for OctoPrint with the camera to monitor the printer.
Would setup Pi-Hole.
Initially just want a pihole; thinking about it along with a Docker Pihole on a NAS for redundancy.
Even if I still haven’t been able to buy a RPI4, I want to thank you for creating RPILocator!
I’ll use the RPI4 to upgrade my home automation: I have a very old RPI1B+ running Domoticz, but as I connect more devices to it, it keeps slowing down (last thing I installed is nodejs to run zigbee2mqtt and it is sloooow…).
I’ll use the camera for my Octoprint.
Good luck everyone! 😉
I would use it to make a security system for my remote cabin.
I would use the pi as a retro emulation device!
Wish me luck
I would love to use the Raspberry Pi and the camera in a bird-spotting setup on our roof terrace. We have been trying to make a green environment to attract insects and birds.
Would be an upgrade for my RetroPi, currently running on an 3A+. Camera would be to experiment with a sealed Timelapse project.
Hi there. I would use it to set up home security for my dog. There’s a blind spot where his current camera can’t see, so I want to be able to cover that area too 🙂
I would your is a a development host and node.js just. And use the camera on my retropie
I am thinking about a AI video project.
To create a small home server
I would use it for emulation.
Hass.io + octoprint setup! fed up of having to walk back and forth to put in a card. Camera for the pictures of the print
thanks a lot for the work on the rpilocator!
Hi all, good luck in the competition!! I would use the Pi to install Home Assistant on and use it as embedded home controller.
I’m going to replace an OG Rpi running pihole and use this to run prox/pihole/caddy/whatever. I’ll alos use the camera to take a pic of my old Rpi before decommisioning. 🙁
Build a low power laptop with a cam in it.
I’m going touse it to live stream improv!
Need for beginner 3D printer setup with Octoprint!
I’d mount the camera on a robot arm controlled by the Pi!
I plan to use the Pi4b to experiment with various open source projects. The first be Pi-KVM. Thank you for your generosity to the community.
Build a web cam or a camera 📸
I would hook it up to the TV so I could have a sweet emulation machine
I will use this as part of a cluster to learn about kubernetes.
This will upgrade my old RPI3 home assistant!
I could use a new raspberry as a replacement for my broken Rpi2, making my laser burning running again 🙂
I would like to use it to make a pet monitor system to check on my dog while I’m away.
I was planning on using a raspberry pi to pull double duty as an octoprint host as well as monitor near the front door shoe rack.
Looking for another raspberry pi to integrate into a gamma ray spectrometer based on the open gamma detector project.
I would use it for industrial equipment for alarming in case of malfunctions and messages.
I’ll use the pi and its camera to monitor an hyrdroponic garden
I’d use this 8GB pi as a personal computer for my home
Building a Picade or upgrading home assistant
Thanks for rpilocator, it certainly helps although I haven’t got a rpi4 yet (I have all the other versions)
this price is 4 me
I would love to get into home assistant to try and reduce my consumption. This would be an awesome start on that journey
Well this is perfect as my Pi went the way of the dodo, so it’d give me a chance to set up a new NAS box (or bird box given the camera!)
Home Automation!
I would like to use it as my entry to SBC’s and tinkering purposes on low power efficient ARM devices and try and go towards that trend and away from the power hungry station I use now!
I would use it for PiHole with unbound and a VPN.
I don’t know for what the camera module can be used.
The cake is a lie!
That is a nice coincidence. While watching a documentary about a (comercial) cameratrap I said to my wife. “I could set up that kind of arrangement with a RPI and a camera module. Would probably work better as well.”
So if I get it I will have to put my money were my mouth is I guess. Could be fun. 🙂
I am going to use the Pi4 + camera for machine learning with Lobe
A Bird Box
I never win anything, but here I am anyway.
For the Pi, looking to test out redundant MariaDB database things for my robotic hydroponic garden. The cam, I’m thinking of possibly of time lapse photography in the growing environment. Project is in the proof of concept stage but got hit by a hard dose of real life, I honestly need some inspiration to finish the project.
I would like to use this for Ham radio projects
love what you have done for the community, I would use this to control my 3d printers and use as a home server for storing the mass of miniatures stl files I’m accumulating.
I would use this Pi for Octoprint.
Hi,
I’ve been a loyal follower of rpilocator for a couple of years now. Thank you for this useful invention. I’d use the pi to continue to develop my project, the MicroPi WiFi server/kiosk device, detailed at the website listed with this post.
I’d love to subscribe to your newsletter when it comes out.
Best regards, Peter
I’ll automize my growbox.
Thank you for your great work. With your help Ive made some incredible projects! Would love to see a new pi4 on my voron, because I accidentally killed my last one while experimenting :/
Hello!
I would use the Pi as part of my home lab. I’d like to use the Pi to compute tasks against a repository of malware. I don’t yet have this repository set-up but now would be a good time to start : )
The camera I’m not so sure. I know there are some cool ML models that run relatively fast with a Pi. I’d probably give that a try for human / vehicle detection.
I really appreciate what you’re doing and thanks for everything. I’d make an AllSky camera or something related.
What is up!
Love what you do. Considering I’m into ML/AI, I’d use to the gig to build my own facial-recognition controlled door lock. <3
I’d like to use it in a Voron 0.2 build.
id love to use it as a birdspotting camera system!
I’m in desperate need of a pi to finish my Voron 2.4 3D printer! Everything is built except for the pi, so I can’t use it!
I have been waiting for a Raspberry pi for about 2 years but sadly, they are not available in the U.S.A just yet. I will use my raspberry pi for many things but one is a farmbot to be able to tend and water the plants in my community garden without having to have people tending for it everyday. I work with the community school to make things better and help students learn about these sort of things.
I’d like to setup my first server with a Pi, but have a tough time finding one!
I would use to craete some automation projects with my kids. The kids are 9 and 13 and they are very interested in trying the Raspberry Pi
i would use the pi as a zwave smart home controller and connect a few other sensors and a screen to it.
So many things you can do with a Pi… and they’re so hard to find. I like making arcade games from mine.
I’d love to upgrade my Plex media server/Sonarr/Radarr download box to run on a low power SBC.
1. Use the camera with a Pi 1 B for a porch deliver alert. I get a lot of packages for my neighbors and so I want an automated way for them to see if there is a package on my porch.
2. Use the Pi 4 for a FreeIPA server.
I would use it for my CNC machine. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’ve been wanting a Pi for a while now to play with Home Assistant and tinker with some other projects or experiment with small server tasks!
Andre, brand new member. Great site, I would use the RPI4 in an PiKVM
Thanks for the giveaway! I’m looking to replace my broken 3b that was being used for OP25 SDR monitoring.
Id use it to run a NAS, and a raspotify client, and a transmission client… and probably some other stuff that i tinker with for my a levels 😂😂😂😂
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My Pi4 is matched with a Pisound and a midi pedal and is becoming an effects unit for a guitar
Probably move to a usb sound device soon
Enter me! Lmfao
I’d love to use an 8gb pi 4 as the main unit in my printer farm, your tool has been great in obtaining the 2gb models
I would use it to selfhost various apps and for some projects and experiments I haven’t thought of yet
This is a really cool idea to do this!
I’d probably use the Pi 4 as another desktop system. The camera might be used on the robot from the CamJam #3 kit because all robots need cameras!
I would Love to have the opportunity to win this rpi 4 to upgrade an old arcade cabinet and id use the camera for my pi zero as a smart security cam to check on my animals while at work.
I would use it to power a ham radio project.
Hi, I would use the new RPi 4B in parallel with my existing one, moving some of the software for “load sharing” – I got too ambitious with my Pi and it is frequently running out of RAM… *and* swap space! 🙁 Hopefully 8GB RAM would avoid having to use swap at all
I’d love one. I’m interested in the camera + pi4 for OpenFrameworks tinkering.
This is awesome – Thanks!
I need this to watch my mischievous Bengal cats!
I want to use it and a second rpi 4 8gb to learn the basics of how to use a computer cluster. Slurm, mpi, etc. I plan trying to port some of my Julia simulation code to work in a distributed system.
To learn, learn, learn!!
Will use it to re-do my homeassistant / node-red / mqtt / etc server. Might play with NAS. Might do some node.js or denode stuff.
Good luck with the newsletter. And thank you for the rpilocator site.
I would use them to setup a Timelapse camera that posts to my website showing my local weather conditions.
I would use the Pi4 to replace my Pi3 A+ as my home server which runs Domoticz, Squeezeserver and several home built utilities. I would use the camera for one of my Drones which also uses a Pi Zero based First Person View system.
Hi I would love to win this for a timelapse project of my plants growing
I would like to use the raspberry pi and camera module for various things predominately, as a standalone virtual tracking device (webcam for tracking a digital character), so I don’t have to setup finicky software on my primary computer, and can use it wherever I happen to be going.
I’ve beennl wanting to make an AI project for determining bird species. I’d use it for that.
A home arcade machine
Id use the unit and camera for an octopi setup.
VPN server
Very cool site. Creating device apps for friend and family with microcontrollers….
Thank you, would use the pi for setting up a small minecraft server for friend.
Thanks for this – hope stock will normalize by the end of this year and end the scalpers rein. If I win I plan to use this for a little Jellyfin server.
Looking to upgrade my 3d printer for remote printing and recording prints
I have a bird err squirrel feeder that I would like to use to snap photos of diners!
I have two things in mind.
I want to start the journey of self hosting with the Pi.
I also want to start learning how to ML image tracking for vibration analysis.
Need a piHole unit!
Awesome idea, I have been looking for a rpi4 for months already.
I have been trying for ages to find a pi. I really need one to bring the Christmas spirit to a community in need. This would be a Christmas show controller
I want to build a tiny pc for writing.
I’m planning on building a robotic telescope so having all that RAM to keep the star catalog in memory would be ideal.
I want to create my own baby monitor with camera and audio that can interface on my local network but not access the outside internet.
I would replace the older Pi 3 in my Generac generator with the Pi 4.
To teach my kids some stuff they never dreamed of…
After learning to program in HS, BASIC on a Teletype, a kindly engineer at the computer host allowed me to play with his dozen or so PDP-11s. After 25 years in the industry, I left it… PCs were uninteresting to someone raised on SCADA.
Another decade+ and I’m retired and discovering the new generation of SBCs and their command & control applications. Feels like the ’80s!
I have enough silly small projects going that I’ve decided I need to learn Git next, before I continue the robot & server projects I’ve begun. An 8GB Pi and better camera would be helpful in either!
Thanks for a great rpilocator website; I’m on several waitlists, but still scored my latest Pi using it.
Will use in my 3d printer to run Klipper!
Actually just started learning the Raspberry Pi and will use this for my Ham radio hobby ( Like Ham Clock on a Large TV, Logbooks and tracking satellites ) and the camera for my Zoom meetings . Thank you for the chance to win one
If I win, I plan on using this as part of an ADS-B receiver.
Thank you for offering this service!
I’m just starting to use Docker for the first time and would love something small and quick to deploy things on.
Would love to have an Rpi 4 for trying out various projects including trying out projects like Frigate.
This rocks! I’m looking to use both of these gizmos as part of a Robo-Magellan robot. (See https://robothon.org/rules-robo-magellan/) The robot needs a camera to see orange traffic cones, and a beefy enough computer to recognize them.
I have been waiting to get my hands on a Pi4 for a Retro Pi and Robotic vision projects. Good luck everyone.
I’ll use it log and identify our garden’s feathered visitors to the bird table.
Build an elaborate midi controller
I would use it to code my projects.
I would use the Pi to build a veterinarian scanner simulator for my 4 year old daughter’s veterinarian play set – a device that you can insert a stuffed animal into, and it would “scan” the animal and produce a “diagnosis”.
Probably make a home assistant.
If I won the Pi + Camera, I would definitely try out TensorFlow in Python (with facial recognition). I’d also use it as a server for my online games.
love to get a pi to just get a pi
Create an arcade unit
I will use the Pi to set up home assistant.
Love it! I’m going to try some have recognition projects.
Would like to move some iot stuff from a vm on my server to its own box. Thanks for setting up this page!
Great giveaway.
I would use the Pi 4B 8GB and the camera to make a beefier security camera based on Bullseye and MotionPlus.
Going to update my old raspberry pi 3. Looking forward to make a ciberdeck handheld pc
direct rendering manager dev, desktop use.
A pi a day keeps the raspverries at bay?
A raspberry pi would be a well loved device to anyone who wins!
I would love to win the Rpi 4, 8 GB model with camera so I can finally set up a video surveillance depot. At the moment, I can’t find any PI 4’s anywhere for sale! Please Pray for Me!
Yes, it’s a duplicate. The subscription failed so… Throwing my pi-hat in the ring.
Planning to implement home assistant
I need one for my new Voron 3D printer build!!
I need another Pi for my Robot That Picks Up Socks. Also have some other projects in the works, including audio beamforming and tracking with a microphone array, and of course the token LLM-enabled assistant.
Would like to help my 13 year old grandson learn programming with it.
I’ll think of something! I just like collecting computing hardware 🙂
This is a great service for tracking PI availability, I love it! 😉
I’d like to use the board to set up my homelab stack using Ubuntu Server/Docker/Portainer. I’ll use the camera for OctoPrint
Want to try a camera project with rpi.
I would love to setup a remote access KVM-over-IP to use my PC at school XD
Probably set up a pi nas for wife’s photography business
I can’t wait to have a RPI4 to use for home automation.
Would love to build an automated Timelapse camera with a Pi 4 8GB and the camera module 3! With bullseye and the change in to libcameratools and newer python tools, it’s been fun to struggle through adapting code from other peoples buster photography projects.
I am working on implementing home assistant at some point, this would go a long way towards that.
I want to use it as a webserver for my ASP.NET projects.
I shall have thy pi host my websites C:
All-in-one smart home solution!
I was a part of this!
Planning on installing Home Assistant and start learning it to upgrade to a smart apartment
Thanks for your work
Pls sign me up! If I am picked, I will use it as my main computer for work! 0.0
This is very generous of you. Thanks for making it fun. I would used this to monitor my water usage to detect leaks using the camera on my new meter that shows 100ths of a gallon usage.
I have been looking for a Raspberry Pi to host some documentation and a open-source Discord bot I wrote in TypeScript.
I want it. Thanks
my sons cub scouts pack is buying a pinewood derby racetrack – will use this to install DerbyNet, so the kids can race their cars, while the Pi show a slow mo of the finish line as well as keep track of the heats, times, etc.
I want to make a bird nest with the camera.
I would like the Raspberry Pi/camera for using Klipper on my 3d printer.
I would build a face recognition/automated attendance system for my village school to demonstrate and inspire students.
Thank you for implementing and maintaining Rpilocator. Because of you and your hard work, I was able to complete many Pi-based projects these last several years and had a great time doing it.
If I win the contest, I will use the Pi4 and camera to create a fully functional Predator shoulder cannon (from the Predator movies) with head-tracking and video recording in the cannon barrel. I will wear it as part of my cosplay at San Diego ComicCon this year.
I am here and have been here for a long time 😃. My three little kids love animals and I enjoy teaching them about science and I’d love to use this do help them learn about technology and how to utilize the capabilities of the RPi 4 to make a portable camera to watch the numerous type of animals around our home. All of us would love this!!
I would love to use the RaspberryPi either for my new Home Assistant setup or I will try and set up a PiHole instance for ad blocking. Always wanted to try this out.
Will use it to upgrade my home assistant and maybe try out one of the cool pi camera hacks.
I would use the Pi + camera as a desktop computer, connected to my 4k TV set, if I have to work from home (when kids are sick, etc.).
Going to experiment with opencv and machine vision.
Thanks for doing a giveaway! I’d try running a low level LLM on a new raspi if it’s possible to get working 🙂
I would like to make a meteor cam.
Hello, I would like to add an OctoPi Cam to my 3D printer setup. I got into 3D printing at the start of the year and gave fallen in love with it.
Would use it for an upcoming pinewood derby for our local cub scout pack
MotionEyes server!!
Not sure about the camera module, but I’d love to build a retro-game console
I would use raspberry pi and camera to monitor my aquariums when I’m away from home.
Thinking about a Voron 3D printer build.
I don’t win, I can still I want to use it for a few things. 1). I want to try doing object recognition. 2). For emulating PS1 Games that I only played the demos for. 3). For remote communicating with my parents while I am on business trips (I think it would be fun to try and confuse them while I am on the other side of the country).
I would intergratie it in my home assistant setup
I’d like to learn some networking through linux and setup a security camera maybe with some openCV or python shenanigans.
I’d use the RPI and camera to learn on image recognition. I’ll start with retrofitting my water meter.
I’d use it as a portable computer for work and games.
I’m gonna build something industrial then plug it to a big screen and display graphs and how the control system works step by step.
I need to use it for Klipper on my printer! Been trying so hard to get one without paying scalper prices.
Thank you so much for making pilocator for everyone to use, you’ve saved us all from being scalped.
experimenting with a holybro s500 and computer vision would be fun.
Add to the collection
Who won’t try
I will do nice digital still camera for capturing 1:1 square images.
I’d like to use the Rpi for homebridge. Thank you so much for this platform and I appreciate your work!
I will use it to experiment with visual odometry for an autonomous robot amongst other projects.
First of all, a huge thank-you for creating and maintaining Rpilocator – it’s just a great project, a terrific piece of work, and a real benefit to the whole Pi community. I use it to check Pi availability of course, but it’s also a great way to get a sense of when/if stocks are really returning, and when we’ll be able to judge that this crazy shortage is finally over.
I’m really interested in learning and taking advantage of Docker, and setting up a home server computer with it. I think the 8GB model would be great for this. I’ll use the camera to start learning about 3D photoscanning, another topic that I’m really interested in.
Monitoring for remote cabin
Hello! I am building a robotic system and need a few more RPI 4 8go! thanks for the website :D! checking it multiple times a day, every day
I’ve been wanting to do a Home Assistant setup on a Raspberry Pi for a DIY door sensor and camera security system along with a garage door opener that indicates the door open/close status. The camera would be included in the aforementioned camera security system and would definitely help save costs.
Been waiting for years to get a Pi4 to do some projects that requires USB emulation.
I’d build an ai powered dashcam that reads plate numbers and overlaps a square on the plate with its number
Hello,
From a long time i would like to test a camera for Pi, but never gone deep in it. And also the Pi will be my second local DNS server
Would love to have this as a rp4 home server. Spin up emby!!!
I would use it for octoprint.
I’d use them to do some learning of AI and ML, with some item identification type things.
I would use it for smart home and surveillance solutions
My first thought was to use the Pi4 as a mediacenter/retrogaming station. Except that the camera opens up interesting possibilities. Like catch up on computer vision and see what can be done real-time with that hardware.
Hello I was here.
I would use it, as a NAS or a smol docker host, so I can offload some of my applications form the cloud to my home.
The cam could be kinda nice, but I currently don’t know what I would use it for….
Hi, I want to build a home automation hub
I would like to try using Raspberry Pi for virtualization with “PiMOX” project. Camera would be useful for some other ideas like live streaming internet webcam.
I would like to use the Pi and camera to create a smart door bell.
Hi,
I would like to connect rpi to my tp2 cluster, and for the camera module I’d try to male a surveillance system which is connected to the clusters nas.
Je suis un inconditionnel du raspberry Pi depuis ses débuts et la pénurie actuelle m’empêche de réaliser des projets dont un NAS et un appareil photo numérique
I’d like to set up Pihole and integrate the camera with my home assistant
Hi, Nice. Both would run an high speed 3D printer.
I would like to set up my own build server
Probably use it for a file server + home surveillance, but that might be underutilizing it, so it may end up doing something more interesting
If I win, this would be my first Raspberry pi and it would be great to experiment and try differernt projects using a camera.
I would probably move my pihole to it to free up my zero2 for a retro games. Needing s new nas so tempted to look at docker and see if I can do it all on the 4. Still new to them so learning everyday.
Got to say i would be intested in making a Full size Astromech droid. want to try and make it patrol the down stairs and monitor awht goes on when were not in.
I would love to win that Raspberry in order to create a retrogaming emulator with retropi 🙂
It’s impossible to find them in Italy
Definitely want a powerful enough pi for projects like having a smart mirror that can also control all my google home/nest/alexa/wyze/smart products from 1 screen using a custom dashboard with all these buttons/sliders for everything. A camera would be interesting for facial recognition to see who is home
I will use raspberry pi 4 and a camera for a octoprint farm managing some of my ender 3 v2 3dprinter
Thanks for the website, just need a Zero2W to be available in the UK now!
I’m thinking wildlife camera, but what I’d really like is a coffee table video arcade machine.
It will allows me to monitor my home remotely, receive notifications for any detected motion, and have a recording of events for future reference. It provides both security and peace of mind, as well as the ability to integrate additional sensors for a comprehensive home assistance system.
Would love to use the camera module for a mini RPi timelapse camera project.
I would use the pi to play around with the camera and opencv.
Use it as protable computer, learn python development
I I would like to experiment with an ESXi environment or VM’s in general on ARM. The Goal would be to have a email client, Pi-hole, and Home assistant on one chunk of hardware.
Your website has helped me to get the raspberry I needed, no to the next project. another one is needed.
It’s time to automate my home with a RPI.
I have cute pets (specifically fancy rats), and I wanted to try to build a headless streaming device to stream them playing to twitch.
We already have the proper commands using ffmpeg which also adds some chill music on the background, but I have the HD camera and a long lens, which makes it really difficult to actually set up (also, manual focus is a pain for moving targets). The camera v3 would be very useful for this!
Furthermore, the 8GB pi would probably be used for my k8s home cluster, and I would instead use one of my 2 GB pi for the streaming camera (Ram is more useful on my cluster).
I could really use a rpi for a home automation project I have in mind – opening garage doors from my phone.
3d printing
camera is going on a 3dprinter and the pi in a brewery controller
I will use it to create some AI to recognise the bendiness of bananas then release it into the wild so it can take over the world one banana at a time.
Moin moin,
It will replace the one I burned.
Here goes nothing! Thanks Andre!
I’d love to primarily make a NAS server, however the camera is there for the babysitting purposes in the bedroom. I also super excited to read the other comments to find some cool uses (haha, may be I also need that)
eheehh free compuder
I would make a home automation hub!
Hello! It is so hard to get one that I can’t miss this. The plan is to use the raspberry pi and camera with a CV system in robotic 3d printing
Good morning everyone! 🙂 Keep up the good work, we love you!
I would use it to do a school project for IOT.
Bird counter
I’d really love to get one to use as surveillance!
Create a home server, and make a homemade NAS to backup all home devices’ storage
Plan on using the RPi and camera to watch my dogs play.
Awesome idea, the giveaway!
I would use it to create a home server with PLEX, PiHole and maybe as a web server to host some applications.
Mainly just a tool to learn new things! 😀
I would love to use this for octopi, so remote monitoring of my 3D printer
Really cool!
I’ll experiment with Home Assistant and Pi-hole.
I would use it to setup an ADS-B receiver
Looking forward to finally get a rpi for running klipper in combo with my Voron 2.4 3D printer. Right now using a PC.
I would like to use it to teach and encourage my daughter to code, experimenting and seeing the results of her code.
I would use it for personal diy camera control 🙂
I’d love to win one! I already have one running as a NAS, so this one would be more for experimenting generally.
My goal is to create a smart display next to my desk. Combined with the camera I am able to track where I am inside the room.
Want to use for a navigation plotter
I have several ideas how to use it, simple one is a media center + pi hole + home assistant.
More creative is to try Astroberry. Currently I’m designing my AZ mount for a telescope.
Very cool. I’d use it for home automation, so maybe I can move away from Alexa.
Learning!
Besides the amazing work you do on all stuff like rpilocator.com, this is even nicer! I would like to use it to create a HA cluster for my home network server (DNS, Pi Hole, Unifi, Zabbix, the works) using HAProxy.
Will, would be used for OpenHD fpv project, as base station. The cam will go into an airplane or wing.
using the pi sbc for ham radio projects
I’m building robot buggies with my students at school but due to the shortage I have only been able to source Raspberry Pi 3’s for them from eBay. I would love to show them a version 4 Raspberry Pi to show them how much faster the CPU is and be able to compare its performance in the buggy. The camera would be a cool addition to create a spy robot methinks!
I would use it to complete a Global Meteor Network setup
https://globalmeteornetwork.org/
I would use it to upgrade my home automation and add another security camera.
Thank you for all you do for the RPI community!
I would like to learn basic programming.
Would use the Pi and Camera for Astroberry
I would like to experiment whit machine vision and AI.
I would use ut for my new 3d printer 🙂
I’d use it in my Voron 2.4r2 build!
I am planning to use it as a Private GPT on the local home network with some image recognition enhancements.
I will use it in a smart garden setup (located near bluetooth/zigbee soil moisture/temperature and maybe ph sensors, and will use the camera for generating timelapses of the plants growing – and also checking on them when i’m away.
Also want to try using it as a backup zigbee2mqtt coordinator (in standby until connection to the main one is lost, and keep synced configurations). Will probably use it as a backup for other essential services too.
I’d use it for companion and a stream deck
None of my currently available spare Pi’s can run Home Assistant and that’s my next big project on my project TODO list, so an 8GB pi and camera would be the perfect kickstart to getting that going.
Hello, I intend to use it for analog electronic pattern recognition and link them to a specific image to identify objects with electronic charge.
I Will use it for license pmlate recognition
Wow, cool contest. These have been so hard to get hold of. I have a Turing Pi 2 board that I have been waiting to play with until I get a CM4, so this would be great. Not sure what I would do with a camera module: experiment? I have a regular RPi4 I would hook it up so and see how it all worked.
I would use the 8GB Pi4 and camera to have a play with image recognition.
Hi, I would use the raspberry pi and the camera to learn more about coding and explore building my own electronic circuits.
Whoever wins the raspberry pi (or me :]), be happy!
I would love to use one of these to learn raspberry Pi on! Haven’t been able to get my hands on one
I need a pi and camera for my 3D printer.
Home surveillance
I would use pi4 and its camera to build “facial unlock” feature for my home automation project so each of my household can login to their part of “Home OS” without actually putting passwords in
Esxi host
I want to use this for HyperHDR
I would use the pi with the camera to watch and track the birds at their new bird house.
Need a raspberry pi for PISCSI, so this would be great.
Will use camera to find out how squirrels get in/out of my roof space when I’m not looking.
I will use the raspberry pi to tinker and learn how to set up AI image recognition with the camera.
I am planning on a Voron printer build in the near future.
Have yet to decide how to use the camera, specifically. I would use the pi as a print and meira server. Would be fun to figure out what to do with the camera.
Hi, I’d like to setup a birdnet-pi installation at my house:
https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi
It does local acoustic classification of bird calls & looks like it would be loads of fun.
Looking for a 4b to start playing with home automation.
I really need to find who stole the eggs from my chicken coop. RPI + Camera Module + my power bank.
that’s a cool idea
Brilliant work dude, I’m sure everyone is happy that you exist, I’d use the camera as a cctv in my office so I can see if anyone is at tbe door – amazon etc, and catch them before they drive off 😀
This time for sure I will do something useful with this, right?
Had a 3D printer catch fire lost about 80% of everything in my home I need one for Octoprint to keep an eye on the next 3D printer
I’ve been trying to purchase one for a while now as I have a few project ideas in mind:
1. Setup a pi-hole
2. Setup a dashcam for my car
3. Some home automation
I am leaning towards the dash cam idea.
Love Pi’s and the camera. Great work with rpilocator as well, it saved the day several times for me. But at this moment, i’m short one Pi so this could come out handy… 🙂
I’d like to use one to run OpenCPN
I plan on using the 4B 8GB pi as an analysis and data visualization platform for two years of environmental data I’ve gathered. Thank you for doing this! This is incredibly generous.
What a rush! Thanks for doing what you do and making making easier on us all. I’m hoping to control a scanner, API, and sortation conveyor with remote monitoring!
I would like to use it for my PiKVM.
I’d live one for an extra donkeycar
Thanks for creation of RpiLocator, i’m everyday on your website for save search time !
With this rpi+cam i wan’t to use it as home server + secutiry cam
I would LOVE this!!! I’d use it to connect to my Ender 3 S1 printer, and the camera would monitor prints when I’m away from home.
Would use RPI4 as an ADS-B receiver station
Replace a broken Pi in my 3d printer and add a camera for monitoring.
Thank you for doing the giveaway!
I’d use it as both a PiHole for my network and to run OctoPi on my printer. The camera would be used to ensure print quality.
Nginx reverse proxy and cache
I’m a poor student and I wanted a raspberry pi to learn linux and do some electronic stuff but i don’t have the money for it.
Would use it as a network security camera.
My hexapod robot would love a new pool and camera 🙂
I’d probably use the raspberry pi / camera combo for my 3d printer. I’ve recently gotten myself one, and I’ve been waiting until an RPI comes in stock against a reasonable price so that I could set up OctoPrint to manage my 3d printer remotely.
This would make a great replacement for my long expired original raspberry pi bird feeder camera!
I want to try and use it to do time-lapse on my 3D Printer and wanted to see if I could use some AI to figure out if my prints were failing and automate the stopping of the print.
I want to create an irrigation system with more sensor data than just my timer.
Im trying to buy a RPI for months now and thanks to RPI locator this has become easier than ever
Would like to make a build bot/backup server
I am here! So many cool things I have in mind for a Pi 🙂 Probably will try to use as a Octoprint server with a live camera first.
Would use is for a portable music player.
I would like to use this for retropie.
I’d use the Pi 4b in my Arcade1Up cabinet for emulators. 🙂
I am wanting to learn more Docker stuff to help with my Home-assistant project. A redundant Pi will help massively with this!
Thanks so much for rpilocator.com BTW.
I would love to set up a low power Docker host since I don’t need to run too many containers.
Would like to experiment with object detection on my porch
I want the Raspi to monitor my photovoltaic system, and with the camera I can visualize the shading.
I have been checking this site daily looking for a RPi model 4 to create a birdbox/birdnet/weatherstation combo to identify bird species around my house, but due to several major life events, always seem to miss them coming in stock
I would install FPP on it and let it be the master control for my sequenced home light show I put on during the holidays.
Hi thanks for running this giveaway! I would use the Pi to upgrade my Ender 2 Pro to Klipper and I would use the camera module to finally have a way to do timelapse and print progress updates via my Ender 3 Pro running Klipper and a Raspberry Pi 3B+. Thanks again, love the site you’ve created!
Thank you
Hi, I would use the raspberry pi to host a web server for nextcloud, I have an old raspberry pi 3 that I would probably use with the camera to set-up as an IP camera to watch the dog in the house when I am gone.
rpilocator is cool thank you for that
My kid is learning programming on an old pi3.
I would like to give her a better experience, and also that would allow me to repurpose the old one into a control system for a cat litterbox fan.
I’d probably use the Raspberry Pi as a development system to begin learning to program the Raspberry Pi Pico. I’m not sure what I’d do with the camera. I’d definitely try it out though, to see how much the new model is improved over the previous model.
I will use it to teach my young daughter to code by creating a robot and develop an at home weather station and VOC gas.
I’d use it for Al.
Pi and cam for a wild BUNNY CAM to capture and stream all of their antics in our garden!
Thank you for the opportunity Andre! I would use the Pi and camera for my 3d printer. I really appreciate the work you have done with rpilocator.
Would use the pi and camera to build an OpenPlotter set up.
The Pi would be used for a navigation computer project I’m working on. I wasn’t planning on having a camera, but it could serve as a reverse camera!
Oh boy a chance for free stuff???
Here because of FOMO!
I would like to use the Pi to set up Tesla Android.
I would use it to upgrade my HA so that I could use my old RPi 3 on a project I have slated to automate my flagpole.
Just about to start the sourcing phase for my Voron 2.4 build; this would obviously be perfect 🙂
[TY for rpilocator!]
I would like to use the pi/camera to create a facial recognition system that could be integrated into my smart home system for use in automations.
Would love an RPi to start building out my homelab!
My plan is to utilize the Pi to educate and work on projects with my 5-year-old son.
This is super cool idea! I’ve always wanted to create a automobile tracking system.
Freaking awesome! I’d utilise it for some tinkering with vision related automations, or run HomeAssistant on the Pi!
I would attach it to my 3D printer
Home monitoring
I’d use it for a small home server
I need this to really use learn Linux. Probably do some Kali linux or could be the beginning of a rPi cluster to learn Kubernetes.
Thx for doing this!
I can’t say specifically what I would do with a Pi4 because I’d change it every 3 days and never be satisfied. That would be so cool….xD
Looking to build a hog trap that is camera activated.
Looking to set up a face recognition beer tap monitor.
I will start tart to learn AI with image recognition, e.g. counting vehicles.
I would use it to monitor my network and devices connected to it.
I would use the two items separately; the Pi4B8GB would become my desktop replacing an aging Pi4B1GB and the camera would be set up on a Pi2B+ [I was able to get recently] to monitor bird/squirrel outside our home
This is so awesome! Would be great to set up a motion activated camera to monitor the environment
Looking to make a homeserver setup with some docker stuff, a live cam of my pup and maybe a personalized Jarvis with computer vision.
Want to replace some larger old PCs with a RPi to reduce power usage: NAS, Pi-Hole, etc.
Hi, I’m nearly sixty and I would love to make myself and others sure that it’s never too late to take up a new hobby.
I would use it as a home automation server and probably add BitWarden to it, at some point
I’d like to use the pi for home automation. Connecting all the IoT devices into a single location and have them interface with each other.
I want to try a couple things, but first goal is to set up an audiophile quality music streamer.
I’ve been trying to get a R-Pi 4 forever. Would love to upgrade my current IoT dev setup with this awesome device.
This is getting popular – thanks for a useful site. Looking do a garden cam.
I would use it to make timelapse videos and other raspberry project
going to build a Picaid for my kids
I’d like to use it as a NAS and a webcam to watch my cat when I’m away from house.
Thank you for everything you’ve done. I’d like to use it for my home automation system, right now I’m using a RPi3B some tasks but it lacks of power and nowadays it’s almost impossible to get my hands on a Pi4B.
I would use it to run a VPN on my network!
Greetings! I would like to use the raspberry pi and camera as part of a set up to make an inexpensive agricultural tractor GPS guidance system for a small farm in southern Arizona. The corporate versions of these systems are ridiculously priced.
going to setup a Pi on my Wrangler YJ to controll gauges and camera
Learning python and using the Pi as a PCB testing platform.
need RPi for automotive gauges project
I’d like to give it to my dad. He’s a retired computer science professor in his 80s who is always tinkering to keep the ol’ brain cells sharp. He expressed an interest in the RPi right at a time when it’s hard to get one. I don’t know what he will do with it but I bet it will be something ingenious.
I’ve needed a RPI to build my car onboard computer with a smart parking camera, this giveaway comes at the perfect time!
I want to build either a version of a ring doorbell or a NAS system for file backups. Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
I’m wanting to hopefully connect my GMRS repeater online so I can use it from anywhere.
I would start a project on home automation. It would also replace my pizero as pihole/NAS.
Hi. Free Raspberry Pi 4B Please
I’d like to create a robot car
I would use this to teach my daughter
I’m a computer engineer and i’d use it as home server for personal projects.
I would use it to control and monitor my 3d printer with octopi.
I’d use it to live stream my 3d Printer and as a home automation server. Thanks for this opportunity!
I’d use it for iOT
Would love the RPi4 as a Privacy Box (pihole, unbound, Wireshark) for my sister in Munich. And the camera as an input for patter recognition I wanted to experiment with for ages.
Hey, using RPILocator since some time now.
Never got a RPI4 for a reasonable price, but once scored a RPI02 for Pihole at my moms house.
Thank you
Working on a solution for a stand alone system to test certain products with. Looking to use a RPi as the control module and camera to scan QR codes for product ID.
I love my pi! I’m using it for 3d printing, but want to also create a pi-hole and a media server/NAS for my home network. I love your site for being able to find pricing and availability.
I plan on building a RetroPi bar top arcade. Not sure what I’ll use the camera for, yet, but maybe I could use it to wake up the arcade as someone approaches.
I would combine multiple home automation bridges onto one PI reducing the need to have as many PIs running.
Bump
I have many possible uses for a PI4, but the main reason I would use it would be to use it for home automation. Thank you for rpilocator, it helps a lot of people getting an RPI for a reasonable price!
A Pi4 and camera v3 would breathe some new life into my tired octopi setup!
I want to create a CAN bus module for simulating electronic control units in vehicles.
Would love to set up a NAS at home!
I think I’d use it for a network streamer with Moode to pair with my DAC.
Thank you for your great service!
Making an RC car/drone with ai vision
I want to use this to build a cool wildlife tracker with my 6 year old and teach him building tech things along the way
I scrolled a long way for this 😉
Jokes aside, I plan to set up a Home Assistant server that doubles as a PiVPN server.
Hi there, I’d like to have the RPi 4 for my 3D printer setup. Currently running an RPi 2.
I would like to evaluate if this hardware could be used to run pfSense and pi-hole.
Building testing control components for aerospace use
I want this to build a home security system
I’d love to be able to grab timelapses of my 3D prints!
I’d love to use this to set up a homemade IP camera for monitoring packages on my front porch 🙂
I will use the pi to feed ADSB aggregator sites!!
Hello there! I would use it for create a pet camera for when I’m not at home.
Now this is a dope giveaway
I’d like to explore setting up PiHole or a DIY doorbell camera as the Ring is not without faults.
Good luck to everuone!
Not sure I’d use it for just yet but possibilities are endless.
Would love to use for octoprint.
Garden surveillance. 🙂
I’ve got NAS and Home Assistant running on RPI already. I’d probably use it for a timelapse view through my windows over a few years or recording little birds just bord in a bidr house in my garden.
Teach my daughter how to build a motion detector by some sensor, wiring and python code.
I’ve been wanting to build a Home Assistant setup for a while. But I’d hate to waste the camera. So maybe I’ll set it up to watch the garden or front porch.
Squirrel / Ring Tail / Golden Eagle tree live stream and timelapses
I plan to work with a friend on building an arcade cabinet running emulation software, with the camera the idea of having it take pictures and display the high score holders sounds fun
I would use it as a pet / wildlife monitor.
Would love to play with something newer than my RP2.
Awesome ! I’m working in IA, so I’d like to experiment on computer vision !
I would use a pie for as a mosquitto test bed and development system.
Fantastic! I am looking to crate a streaming video security camera to add to Home Assistant.
I would love to setup a computer vision project using raspberry pi and camera bundle
My pi3B running my Home Assistant server is looking very long in the tooth, a Pi4 would be a perfect upgrade!
With an 8GB Pi, I’d *finally* get around to doing some things with containers, first project would be PiHole running in container form.
Would love to use use one as a home automation hub
cool! my old RP-based baby-cam broke down (not yet sure if this was a camera HW failure of just a kinked wire or whatever), so a new camera is nice to have! And another RP anyways…
Hi. I’d love to have an RPi 4 in order to start learning Linux and code (Python).
Thank you for this giveaway.
Cheers, from Brazil.
Hi, I have been using this site to try and get my hands on a Rpi for the first time because I have been unable to find one at a reasonable price for months. Thank you for the opportunity of winning one, I would use it to teach my kid how to use Linux and have fun with a bunch of little coding projects.
I plan to use mine to make a smart calendar display for my family!
I would like to use it as a mini home server system
My son has been going to Computer school to learn python programming. I want to give him this pi and allow him to write his python code for the pi
I would like to use it to power the computer-vision portion of the protogen head I am building! It’s a helmet with LED eyes that will be controlled by tracking my actual eyes. I have built the software, I have it running on my laptop but I need a mobile, low-power, platform that I can fit in a helmet! I might even be able to squeeze a deep neural network that detects facial expressions for more detail. Fingers crossed I can get my hands on one 😀
Good luck everyone! I would like to setup a retro arcade!
I need a low power SBC for network critical applications so I can tinker my main server without fear that I may bring down the internet.
I would be using the kit to get started on my journey of becoming a penetration tester as well as use the camera for applications in machine learning/computer vision.
I’d like to enter! I’ve not yet had the pleasure of messing around with a Raspberry Pi camera. It would be cool to see what’s possible with 8GB of RAM and the camera.
Pi doing Pi stuff!!
I will use the Pi and Camera to explore TensorFlow or other ML solutions to detect objects in video.
I will use these to remotely control a projector and screen… The camera will be used to view the actual status and make sure everything is in the proper state on location. Thanks!
Prototype waterborne autonomous drone.
I’d like to replace the Rpi 2 in my 3d printer but not pay 3 times over msrp.
I would like to set up a HomeAssitant hub as was as a few docker containers.
It would be very useful for my final project for my BSC degree in Digital Technolgy Solutions
As a lot of people have said, this would be for a 3D Printer setup for monitoring and octolapse
I’ll use it to relearn all that I’ve forgotten in Linux over the years
I want to use it for sorting and pricing Magic and Pokemon trading cards.
I’d love to learn all about computer vision!
I would use it ad NAS at home.
I need to set up a small CCTV camera because of the increased thefts and fly-tipping in the area
I’d use it to create a game camera to watch the critters that roam around the forested parts of my property in a higher resolution that 640×480 (which is the resolution of my current inherited game camera).
I will use the pi for a personal cloud with Nextcloud
I would like to use this raspberry pi to better manage my network at home 😉 Thanks for the giveaway !
I was waiting to order RPi Zero 2W but if it’s something more beafy – that’s fine 🙂
So cool. I love rpilocator, even though I always seem to be away from my computer when Pi 4 8GB units show up!
Would love to finish building my rack mount k8s cluster using this pi. Thanks for doing this!
I would use this to make a voron or upgrade one of my anycubic 3d printers. thanks
I’d like to try learning computer vision
PI 4? I’ll upgrade the Pi3 I have running pihole and openvpn. Or maybe I’ll finally turn it into corelight @home. Not sure.
Use it to build a new voron
I’d use it with a stereo camera module to make a little mobile rover that can map a room! I learned the algorithms in college, but never got a chance to do anything fun with them.
I would use it to create a photobooth. I love learning about how to build things from scratch.
I would like to use this to setup a small terminal teach computers to the poor who are learning typing in a typing school in India.
I would love a Pi to use for robotics and retro game emulation. Good luck everyone!
Ever since I started to follow this and use the website, I was able to pick up a 3 A+ after many email “notify me” lists. Nice resource during the shortage. Now tracking for a pi 4 board for a cluster project I want to try playing around with.
I need a sentry in my backyard to keep the cats and crows away from my plants and bird nest.
I need a beefy board, because I do not want to be soaked myself!
My church started doing broadcasts during COVID-19 and as it wound down a bit we decided to keep it up for people who may have transportation or health issues. As the tech guy I have been using my personal equipment to facilitate this, but I would love to create a self contained stream box to broadcast our sessions that could be dedicated to that purpose.
Would use it to make a 3d print failure detector.
Thanks for the work you do. I’ll sign up for your newsletter.
Hi, I’d like to use it with a VIAM rover
I have needed an RPI 4 for a while to run octoprint on my fledgling print farm (it’s only 2 printers lol)
I want the pi4 + camera. Wishing luck to everyone.
I’d love to be able to get a Pi4. I need it as a small desktop
I want to build a system to take pictures of birds that come by our bird feeder!
I want to set up a PiAware or Pi24 ADS-B ground station and contribute to flight tracking.
Would love the Raspberry Pi for photo management
I’ve been trying to get my hands on a Pi so that I can continue with my plans to run Klipper and Octoprint.
I’m looking to encourage my older daughter who is already interested in coding. We are going to build a pi desktop, and if that goes well we will make a robot, and/or a game emulator.
I plan on setting up a Motioneye surveillance system.
The next project on my list is to create a means to prevent raccoons from eating the cat food out on the porch that we put out for the feral/stray cats. I plan to have a camera to watch for cats and either open the food bin for them, or recognize raccoon-looking objects and close the bin to them (not sure which would work best. at this time.)
Excellent give away!
thanks for building this site. i’ve scored a few rpis during the shortage and it’s thanks to you.
I need it for my home assistance setup, hard to get it cheaper as it used to be; sad times as it forces us to look for alternatives like mini used PCs instead, more power for the same money…
Hi, I would use this RPI as part of my home servers, but with the camera I would focus it for Hummingbird detection/photograph, I would use OpenCV to create the detection software and take pictures/videos only when apearing near the camera in the feeder, and send a notification back to my phone.
Thanks for offering this giveaway, the rpilocator has been a huge help to not end up being shafted over the price of Pis this last year. If I win I will use the Pi to setup an environment monitor for a home data center an use the camera to help with making my pesky meddling kids out 😀
Hey really excited to take part in the giveaway have a ton of ideas in my head to add this board in my homelab and have plans to get a coral tpu too to make object recognition with a camera or even a self driving motorcycle though I doubt the single camera will be good enough for that let’s see what happens fingers crossed 🤞
NAS server….maybe…
Home Assistant monitor.
I would like to build a retro gaming station with one.
I would like to use it to build either a RetroPie system or use it to build my very first 3D Printer (Voron 2.4)
Add the pi to my other pi to finally tinker with a mini cluster. Camera module would be a tbd but thought about building a solar powered time lapse setup.
Where am I? Who are you people? mmmmm PI
I’d like to try building a remote control for my blinds. The ones already computerized are stupid expensive!
I would like to set up an outdoor UFO/UAP observation camera with motion detection!
I would like to use the Pi and the Camera with my 3D-Printer.
I would like to use it as a motion detector for my house for automations
I’d like to set it up to see animals in our garden!
Looking forward to the newsletter!
SO many projects waiting for stocks to restored.
I’d love to make a home weather station and play around with the camera
Thanks for the giveaway 😀
I’ve been wanting a pi so I can create a personal ebook library that can be accessed anywhere on any device. I also want to make a Jellyfin server for my family!
I would use it to create a real-time LED humidity display with Python by using Astro Pi.
Thank you for sponsoring this giveaway! I’d love to use the Pi on my MisterFPGA and the camera on my Prusa Mini+. Hope I’m able to win.
I’ll use it to elaborate my understanding about computer vision by building an Object Detection Robot. Utilizing the Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB and a camera module, I’ll dive into image recognition algorithms to detect and track objects in its environment. This hands-on project will allow me to explore concepts like image processing, feature extraction, and object localization. By programming the Pi to autonomously navigate and interact with its surroundings, I’ll gain practical insights into the challenges and possibilities of implementing computer vision in real-world applications.
Any one of many possibilities!
I’d probably do some face recognition magic to automatically announce who the person is.
I’d use it to monitor my 3d printer.
Thanks for the giveaway! I’m trying to get a Pi 4B 8GB to run a home automation server or possibly a NAS or VPN Host. I have a bunch of ideas I’d like to try. A camera would be great with the home automation server!
Been looking to get one of these to use as a pi-hole and maybe a few other things but allways out of stock and i refuse to support the scalpers
I would like to use this for home automation and/or as an NVR
I would use the PI4 to build a custom portable system with a unique, custom, hand-built case. No 3-D printing. The system would use one of the newer 7″ letterbox display for PI systems.
Octoprint/3d printing
I would like to use it to build some LEGO robots for my daughter, hoping she likes it and maybe wants to learn programming.
Pick me! I will be using the Pi on my 3D printer to run octopint.
Man, can’t get the pi I need. Thanks for writing rpilocator!
I am working on a multi room audio setup as well as some general home automation. I could probably use the camera as a door camera, but I’m not so sure.
Gonna make a smart Jukebox! Catch the people to jam to the music!
Haven’t seen Raspberry Pi since before COVID. I really wanna try making a home surveillance camera.
This would be perfect for the Dakboard project I have on my to-do list for the past 2 years. Have been using this site since its inception to try and get my hands on a single pi. Appreciate all the work you do to keep this website up and running.
Top man…
…hopefully the bundle will kick off my creative side of things.
I’m working on some remote environmental monitoring software and would use the pi to host my Flask app, InfluxDB and Grafana servers. Thanks for your work!
Hello! I’d love the Pi to introduce coding to my daughter for a summer project.
I’d really like to build a RetroPi gaming system for my son since he’s recently fell in love with the OG Mario Bros games; the Camera will get attached to my existing OctoPi setup to replace the bulky USB webcam I’m currently using.
Will use it for a home automation server to replace my current very over powered (literally) server.
Hello !
What I would use the RPI4 and camera for? A development project with object recognition, and after doing the prototyping, try it out as a lan-blog-server
I’d like to use this to learn and play around with AI detection.
o7; i’m thinking of starting a small home automation project, centered around monitoring plant wellbeing and commanding small watter pumps to watter them
I have a small, 1kw, solar system I would like to have a web interface and control unit for. A Pi4B would suit that nicely!
I’d like to combine the Pi 4B and camera to capture wildlife on camera in my garden.
I’d like to build my own arcade cabinet with it as the brain.
I would like use for my new Voron V2.4r2 build, which is requires a good RPI4 and a camera for monitoring the print quality.
I’d use this to setup a wildlife cam in the garden 🙂
I wanna monitor which roommate is lying about smoking in the common areas
I’ve been chasing an RPi4 for an ADS-B project – not sure how the camera could factor into that.
I would use the Pi and camera to brush up on Linux and possibly build a DIY home surveillance camera. Would be pretty cool to tinker around with!
I’d propably use it for Home Assistant with Scrypted to relay Cameras to Homekit Secure Video
My kids want to use this for a project with a RC car and try to build and autonomous Electric RC car.
Hi! Id use it for a main office computer for the office for repairing the old ones
Probably for running a bioreactor, but let’s see 🙂
Could use the gpio ports to programm ws2812 leds
I was just looking on rpilocator to get a Raspberry Pi for what would be my backup system (Syncthing) + private network storage so this is a very appreciated surprise! Thank you very much for your wonderful tool which has already helped me and for this opportunity!
Going to use it for my astrophotography setup!
I think I’ll gonna use it for my first steps with Docker.
I will use the Pi as a Home Assitant server and the camera as a security camera
I would love to use it to create a VPN exit node so that my friends and I won’t pay for it. Also for some light webserver usage, mainly for the presence of the Ethernet jack
What a cool giveaway! I started experimenting with PiHole on a Ubuntu VM machine. Im watching video`s off cool apps you can run on a Raspberry.
Greets from The Netherlands
I need a raspberry pi for my dj controller project 🙂
Thanks for building rpilocator. I’m watching it all day, every day.
Going to use it for a pi hole and the camera to spy on those pesky door knocking salesman!
Cool giveaway! I would use the Pi to automate and remote control my cnc machine. The camera would be useful to run AI detection of failues or in general to keep an eye on the current status when away.
Greetings from Germany!
Great idea. I’ve been using the Rpilocator site and finally was quick enought to grab a couple Zero W’s. I want to use a Pi4 for my Ham Radio repeater and have the CPU resources to include a weather station and remote operation of the repeater.
I would like to use it to build out a speed radar system for the speedway of a street in front of my house and have it post the results to a public-facing website.
The raspberry 4 8gb version would be awesome as I’ve always wanted to have one! I would love to be chosen
I plan to create a surveillance system with the pi.
I will be using it as a control panel for an industrial embroidery machine
I would use the pi and the camera to watch live my 3d printers
I appreciate your commitment, and i follow your site every day
I’d like to use it to set up a wall-mounted touchscreen with Home Assistant built in.
Would use the pi for hyperion.ng setup for my living room lighting. Your site has been very helpful, thank you.
i will make a banana watcher 🙂
It would be my first pi, so I’m would use it to try out a lot of different things
Would love to get started to playing around with Pi, I have projects waiting but no Pi due to shortage!
Looking to start a web cloud storage for my first project!
Thanks for creating and running rpilocator!
I have one of those 1up mini street fighter arcade cabinets and I’d love to put the rpi in there and turn it into an even better arcade machine! I already ordered better buttons and sticks, just missing the pi. I would probably install the camera above the screen to take video of the players so that I can stream gameplay with a pip facecam too.
Expand my NAS or HassOS deployment. Thanks for the giveaway!
Probably use it for a two way video system like a Ring doorbell
What a great idea!!!
I think I will use this to see what our dog does while we’re away.
I will probably become part of the material for the Coding Club I’m trying to start where I live. It will probably be the most powerful device around!
I would love to get a Pi 4 so that I can run OctoPrint for my 3D printer!
I’d like to use a Pi 4 for any of the 5 or 6 projects that I haven’t been able to even start on because the false scarcity that has been created by selling all the Pi 4s to “commercial” accounts. I’d be so stoked to finally be able to get my hands on one after years of being too slow during checkout process to even luck into purchasing one.
My father-in-law and I have been waiting on a Pi4 to start working on a retropie arcade console for his new man cave… we currently have most everything else, but have been waiting on a pi4 to get the project off the ground
I’d love to receive this giveaway through shipping, i live in the USA!
I would probably setup a media server or retro emulation system. Not sure what I would do with the camera? Maybe build an AI smart camera.
I’m currently looking for a Pi 4 for my 3d printer, so getting this would be awesome!
I’d like to set up Home Assistant.
Going to do either a carputer or NAS
First, thank you for creating rpilocator. I’ve come really close to getting one in the last couple weeks.
I’m working on a real-time golf launch monitor that will use openCV to identify the direction and spin of a hit golf ball in 3D and then send that information to a golf simulator. I have the machine vision portion working accurately on a windows PC, but have struggled to get an Rpi 4 to work on the camera timing/strobing to get ‘real’ pictures. Am just simulating the pictures for now. Have an old. Rpi 1 with 500M memory, but even with z-swap it still can’t compile half the packages I am using. :/ I’d pull the IR filter from the PiCam 3 and use a high-power set of IR LEDs to freeze a couple frames of the moving golf ball.
I am working on creating a 1/3 scale doll with a working “tv” for a face (think Canti from FLCL) that would be able to run RetroPi and maybe a video looper. A raspberry pi would go a long way towards that project.
I plan to build a 3D printed robotic arm with a camera to be used in a clean box for chemical synthesis involving toxic materials. Initially the camera will be for remote monitoring and control. Eventually I plan to incorporate machine vision to automate repetitive tasks. I already have a 4 pi cluster up and running for distributes computation tasks, a pi router, pi home security and kodi media station. Another project in the pipeline is an ultra high precision and low flow rate syringe pump for biomedical applications.
I intend to use it to for a 3d printer
Need pihole or two, home assistant host, ads-b, etc… not sure about the camera
I’d like to build a machine learning image guided hose pipe to stop the local cats defecating in my little girl’s strawberry patch
I will be using it to run a fire department tone out system or to run my synchronized Christmas light show.
I would like to use it as a home assistant server
I’d like to use this with my nieces and nephews when they visit, so that they can play with the RaspberryPi and the camera and learn about computing. I have the first RaspberryPi model which is very slow compared to more modern Raspberry Pi devices, and I think the RaspberryPi4 would be fast enough to keep them interested.
I’d use the Pi for Home Assistant.
So many things to consider . . . but would start with Octopi for the other printer or smart bird feeder . . .
My nieces boyfriend initially helped me get into 3D printing/modeling and he let me borrow his Ender 3 v2 that he had a Pi hooked up to running Klipper and I would LOVE to get it running with my Ender 3 Max NEO I bought back before Christmas, but haven’t gotten my hands on a Pi yet. And I would totally use the camera to monitor my prints while at my work so I can shut them down when they decide to go haywire!
Very nice of you
I’d use the pi and cam to keep track of my recent gardening efforts.
I would probably use it for fpv video transmition aka OpenHD
A pi would be great to build my cluster
It would become my ai powered rearview mirror for my articulated bus
I will use Pi4 for home assistant server
I would like to use it to take video, timelapse style or a streaming server
I would use the Raspberry Pi and cam for my 3D printer.
Setup a home monitoring camera ststem
I’d love to use it to keep a closer eye on my pets while I’m out of the house but also for general tinkering and web development!
I would like to configure a new Home Assistant server.
I would use it experiment with live streaming video on my home network and try to leverage my OMV NAS as a potential backup recording.
I’d use the Raspberry Pi for retrogaming purposes and make a little emulation device using RetroPie with it. I’m not certain what I would use the camera for though, although I am certain I could figure /something/ out something to do with it (especially if Raspberry Pi stocks ever return to normal).
Would love to work out some home security stuff, have used older Pis for Pihole, etc, but never had a camera module and have always wanted to set up security that doesn’t rely on some cloud service in some unknown country.
I would probably set the Pi 4B up as a security cam with the camera module. Seems like it’d be discreet to (maybe) place up against a window haha.
Want to build a Picade
Nothing too elaborate for me. Setting up a terminal for basic home use. The camera would allow for video conferencing. I appreciate the work you put into making this site happen. If I don’t win I hope I can purchase a pi 4 at retail someday. I have been watching for a few weeks now and still have not had a USA hit, but tracking the misses gives me hope. This and seeing the scalper prices come down, gives me hope that the drought is coming to an end.
Would use to upgrade my home IOT hub, which is based on a RPI!
I would use the pi4 to make myself a proper NAS setup…..Ty for the opportunity!
This is my entry to the contest! If selected, I’d use the pi and camera to build a timelapse camera for my 3d printer.
The main use I have for the pi 4b 8gb ram is making a drone FROM SCRATCH, I’ve already started prototyping on the pi pico w using the mpu6050, some 10k smd resistors, smd buttons, zener 1n4148 smd diodes, the pico, still need to get a lipo battery but well get to it when it comes down, just waiting on the si2302 n channel misfit and ITS TIME FOR THE DRONE :DD. its been a fun journey.
hmm probably use it for one of two things …either to replace my version 2 cam with the pi0..and have both be upgraded… or to build a separate camera system to monitor more than one area Ty 🙂
I want to try my luck and use it to learn more Python!
I would use it to run a home karaoke server.
Sign me up!
Ready to get back into the Rpi community
I want to install pfsense on it.
I’ve been working on tracking trains using Boston’s publicly available API. Ultimately I want to make it an open-source project for more people who enjoy transit activism and DIY electronics. If I were to win, I’d use the Pi to track, log, and display this data. Thanks!
I’d use this for a ham radio project I’m working on!
This would mean a lot to me!
I would set up FreshRSS or Blocky on the raspberry pi and use the camera as a webcam if I win! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would like to set-up a VPN and use the camera to watch my hummingbird feeder.
I would use the pi 4 and camera to experiment with 802.11ah for long-range video streaming of local beavers in my neighborhood!
I’ll planning to build an ADSB tracker.
I would use the PI and the camera as part of a project to stream video of aircraft flying over my home which I would identify in the streamed video through the ads-b data that is transmitted by the aircraft visible in the stream which I am already receiving using another pi.
Would (love to) use the RasPi as a low-power home server, experimental playground, and obviously PiHole. Camera to watch apartment door (from inside) for intruders.
Would use for a head unit/dashcam project in my car.
I will keep it with the other Raspberry PI’s that I have, hoarded away in a box, and think about all the projects I could do with them, but not do the projects because I know that if I use the Pi in an actual project I won’t have a free one to use for something else.
OctoPi
I will use the RP4 to control my 3D printer and then use the camera for remote viewing of print progress.
Would love to use this to run klipper for my printer!
I would use the RPI4 to run Retropi or Batocera.
Thank you for Rpilocator
It would provide me a view to the outside world in my home without windows.
To setup an action camera to view wildlife in the garden
I would use them for an octoprint setup for a 3d printer
I’d use this to experiment with a Raspberry Pi night sky camera which can at separate times be a meteor camera or capture long exposures of star, aircraft, satellite and meteor trails.
Experimenting with Pi, the camera module and AI objects detection.
I need it bro please I am a middle class family my parents did not support me please you support me bro
My sister just opened a restaurant with her husband. I’d use it to display the website they created for a menu of said restaurant
I am building a tablet/mini laptop with a reflective LCD screen to accommodate eye problems I recently developed. I made the RLCD by tearing down a Kano Kit screen and redoing the polarizer and diffuser layers.
want to use it for setting up home assistant and media server.
I will use it to monitor my goldfish
I will build a raccoon repulsion device for my trash cans, and will use the camera to descriminate between varmints and cats.
I would use it for my automated cat feeder / monitoring project!
I wish to start a website that connects the peoples around the whole world to share skills and every knowledge without any charges for anyone and anyone can learn skills and can have knowledge very easily with an interface that anyone can use easily and get the right skills and knowledge they were searching for.
A new artwork I am making
Cheers to you, on developing this gem of a project, mate! I just wish to setup automation pipelines using a RPi board. It will support my game server to eventually host a self-developed game.
Thanks for rpilocator, came in handy multiple times for me.
Would like to upgrade my smart home server (currently pi4 4gig). As for the camera, it would be a good start thinkering with home security and motion detection.
I’d love an r pi to experiment with! The first thing I would use it for is a home backup NAS. I’m not sure what I would do with the camera, no immediate ideas, but I’m sure I would think of something.
I’d use the camera on my other Rpi that I use for Octoprint to help monitor my prints. The 8GB ram on the Pi would be super useful for a VPN bonding device I’ve been wanting to build. I use Starlink but I have obstructions that I can’t remove so I supplement with a hotspot. I use Speedify to bond the two connections together. It would be nice to do this at the network level versus on my machine. 🤘🏽
I would use the Rasperry Pi to build a Four wheeled Robot
I would use it to install Octoprint and monitor my 3d prints. I’ve been waiting for the board to do that for quite a while now
My daughter is fascinated with the music and culture of the 80’s and early 90’s. I would build a retro video game machine so she could experience the arcade games and video games of that era.
im building a modular cyberdeck to convert my everyday use to so i can use less power overall for my nerdy obsessions
I want this sets to put in my 3D printer
With the RPi+camera set I’d jump level in ML/computer vision trying age by face recognition.
Home assistant
Thank you for providing the rpilocator site! Keep it up! I would use the pi for home assistant and try out octoprint and pihole.
Pick me
Thanks for everything.
I can always use a RPI for my next 3d printer project and for running my home network (home assistant and other services)
Object recognition (like identifying what plants I have and ‘is it a weed?’)
The Pi4 would be a nice tool to get my kids into tinkering and hacking without breaking my linux machine.
Definitely will use it to upgrade my crt watchman “computer” that’s been running off a raspberry pi 2 for the longest time!
I want to use my Pi to build a new router.
Hello ! I will definitely use it to upgrade my Home Assistant setup and use the camera to set up a security system in my house.
Oh god à giveaway !! It would be so cool to have it. I’m currently struggling to get one to begin DIY projects ! If there is a camera i would use it to set up a face recognition program. Hope i’m getting the PI !
I would like to use it to make a RPI based Kubernetes cluster for learning purpose, and maybe next will do a project with computer vision, to put that camera into a good use 🙂
I want to build a portable cyberpunk computer for experiments with software defined radio.
If I were to win, a project incorporating both the pi and the camera would probably be an astrophotography camera to attach to my telescope. Otherwise, I would just use the pi for a NAS/PLEX server
To control VLC with ancient TV-buttons ist still a idea.
Whoa! I’d like to participate in giveaway. I’d use RPi as piKVM
I use Rasperry Pi all theway for example with Wireguard Server to access my Home network. also Mariadb is running on RP 4 8GB on an other Iuse Portainer and Docker.
Id like to create a system of recording weather data as its low power and performing machine learning and statistical analysis to see with what accuracy I will be able to predict future weather patterns. I plan to connect the camera to the PI in order to record outside sky for particular cloud patterns and maybe make a object detection system for different types of clouds.
Thanks for both this amazing resource and giveaway. This would be used as a pi home server, including build server.
I would like to use the Pi for upgrading the bartop arcade I built for my dad.
Thanks for what you do!
I want to use it for Octopi. Thank you,
Claudiu.
Setting up a domotica system using zigbee2mqtt.
I love all your work!
i love rpilocator – it helped me buy 2x cm4 and a zero2
I would like to control a 3GDL articulated robot arm that I have created, and implement computer vision to be able to differentiate objects.
I will hook it up to my handled tranceiver and do some hamradio digital modes in portable!
I want to use it for spying on my cheating GF 😭😭
I will setup home assistant.
My mom loves birds, I’d use this to build a bird watcher for her and possible add in a classifier to tell her what bird is in sight.
love rpilocater
I will build some nice projects with or for my kids, Phoniebox, wild cams, etc.
cheers Daniel
I’d like to build a motion detection setup with external battery for wildlife captures
W DPhacks
I plan to prototype a home security system using the Pi & the camera system, hopefully with image processing and smart object detection, and then alert messaging & smart image/video recording. Thanks.
I am new to Debian and Ubuntu. I would like to learn more using this module. Thank you!
I hope to use it for home automation and getting the most out of the vast array of internet connected devices that I currently have including washing machines, lawnmowers, lights, solar panels etc.
I will use the camera for wildlife photography with another solar powered Pi (probably 3A+ because of lower power consumption) and the Pi 4 for Home Assistant.
Thank You!
This would be grate to use to monitor my foster dogs while I am at work.
I will use it for a project at university using opencv 😀
Pi is way better than cake
I will setup Home Assistant!
I would use this for home automation with OpenHAB
I would use it to smartify my 3D printer with Octoprint and experiment with AI failure detection.
I’d use it for HomeAssistant, but adding the camera will allow me to test the image recognition AIs.
I want to run Minikube on it!
Home assistant in docker, with camera for front door surveillance. And LMS in a separate container for my picoreplayers. .
I’d like to use it for a project at work.
I would use it to monitor the behavior of my chickens (in the coop).
thanks for all you do.
I want to build a secure mobile access point with pihole for my son.
Nice! Just bought a Zero thru your site, so thanks!
Would be great to win so that me and my friend could finally build a proper microscope without the thing dying because of insufficient RAM.
I want to work on a machine vision project.
I would use a rpi 4 to build a home server and run PiHole so that I see less ads
Perhaps a webcam that tracks movement and can move to adjust?
A webcam for my apartement and a home web server alswell. Thanks for organizing this event giveway 🙂
I would like a Pi4 to see if it could replace my laptop using VNC to connect headless to the Pi4. I also plan to run Motion software as a security cam. Finally, I want to set up an OpenVPN server on the Pi4. They have been so hard to get lately and I thank you for the chance to win one.
Hi! I’d use the Raspberry Pi for my Network-Streamer Project.
I would use the Pi 4 to setup Home Assistant and start with some homeautomations.
I’ve been wanting a Pi 4 to run some more CPU intensive object tracking / motion detection I’ve been working on. I’ve used and contributed to rpilocator… thanks so much for creating the site! It is more or less the only reason I’ve managed to purchase a few Pis in the last 3-4 months.
Would love to get it for some student projects and to play around with it 🙂
I will use it to set up an online camera security system. Thanks
Would use it to build a synthesizer, I’m sure the camera could be incorporated somehow.
I would try ESXi Arm Fling on the Pi~
Wow. Giving away something rarer than Venus’ arms.
Yes please 🙂
I intend to build a one-button touchscreen application that gets each family-member’s commute listed on demand, with disruptions, diversions etc, before they get in the car or need to twiddle with their phones (and monitors each such that they get an alert if the disruption is serious).
I am curious to use the rpi 4 as a home assistant server. The camera can feed data into it.
I would use this RPI 4 for my autonomous chessboard!
Son has requested to make a hovercraft or a quad copter
Currently looking for a RPi 4 to start a BirdNetPi (https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi) project. Possibly also connecting it to BirdWeather (https://app.birdweather.com/) later.
Other hardware is in the mail, only thing left is the RPi 🙂
I would either try the Corelight@home project or the ESXi Arm version and map the camera to VM as another security camera.
i would use the pi as a self hosted NAS station next to Octoprint Workspace for the camera and maybe even Security cam footage while on a journey
wish me luck!
I’d use it to start building an RPI compute cluster for the worlds tiniest neural network.
The camera I haven’t decided what to do with but possible I’ll train the model to recognize the members of my household.
Since moving to a house in a country park, I would like to setup a wildlife camera in my garden to see what visitors I get.
Gonna use this for tesla android
The raspberry pi community has been an essential in my path to start tinkering and such. I first started messing around with RetroPie because of gaming of course and using all the older emulators in one was a must.
I’ll be using it for air quality monitoring. Cheers.
I am just starting to play in the 3D printing world and would love to upgrade my current setup. I will be running Octoprint with Klipper firmware! Thanks for the opportunity and I look forward to reading your newsletter! GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!
An onboard unit to identify hazardous vehicle events
I want to learn more about Linux O/S – an inexpensive way to do so
I definitely want to use it to learn more about the Pi ecosystem and get back into photography with smaller cameras. I’ve always enjoyed taking apart electronics and the Pi seems perfect for the hobbyist in me 🙂
Home Server
I would use it as a desktop replacement.
I would use it for monitoring my 3d printer using OctoPrint
Nice gesture!
I will use it for all kinds of things
Having a SBC like a Pi would finally allow me to locally host my password manager without breaking the bank on the power bill. Plus I’d love to give locally hosted home surveillance (but more like with ESP boards) a shot. In this case the Pi could serve as a central hub.
For a computer vision project – a special display for weather-watching.
I’d likely upgrade a 4gb unit in my cluster to 8gb and upgrade a pi3 with the pi4 4g, camera, not sure
I will use the Raspberry Pi 4 as a home server
I’d pick up where I left off with my previous pi (which I had shorted in a very easy to avoid situation) and continue on with chucking on and testing a bunch of network services like pi-hole, a tiny NAS for convenience, and maybe a website.
OctoPi here we come!!
I’d use it to finally finish my smart mirror project. Had the parts for it lying around for a good while, just the Pi is missing.
I would like to replace my rpi3B+ with something more powerful for mini homelab and automation purposes.
I would use the pi for trying out different self-hosted services for my homelab
I’ve been meaning to set up a power efficient server on my network for things that have to be on 24/7 like my website and such. It’s also nice to not have to run everything on a single device (having my testing environment on the same device i use to manage my network is unnecessarily stressful when i mess something up haha).
I will use it to continue to build a set of Remote IoT units that connect to local Analog/Digital/Modbus sensors, valves cameras, and other devices both wired and across Local WiFi. The Pi then uplinks to multiple places in the cloud across cellular links.
radar hacking
I plan on setting up some Machine Learning on the Pi and check out how horrible the performance is
We would love this PI4! My son and I have been working on learning on oir PI2 and would love to extend our learning with the PI4
Glad to see stick levels are soon too be normal-ish. Been trying to get one for ages!
I would use this pi to setup a monitoring and control system for an indoor hydroponic vegetable garden.
Experimenting with docker to see what kind of performance can be squeezed out of an SBC.
I would use this to run Klipper on my 3D printer, and the camera to monitor it!
I would use this pi for trying out some computer vision things
I’ll be using it as a home assistant hub for my smart home!
I want to use the rpi 4 to play around with object detection
The next Raspberry Pi I get my hands on I’d like to turn into something to watch a backyard birdfeeder. Thanks for running the rpilocator.
I would use for home automation
I want to play around with OpenCV
I’m planning on building a Voron 3D printer in the near future, this would be the perfect “brain” and camera for monitoring it!
I want to make a 5G travel router… or a Doomsday device… depends on my mood 🙂
Having never had a RPi, I have a lot of ideas, but the one I want to use it for right now is proofing projects to port to a Pi Zero. Solar, local smart home, and some CV.
Thanks for this, and the website, I’ve been waiting to pounce on a pi zero 2.
A Pi4 with a camera module would be the perfect setup for a face detection setup I’m wanting to dive into!
Getting my Grandson on the path of coding, he needs to Create his own Projects and Execute Script (or Blowup them up) and a Pi would fit that bill.
Probably a security camera, thanks for your work !
I would use it as a Homeassistant sever – as my current setup is impractical
A new 3d printer wants a raspberry Pi with a camera of course.
I’d like to replace an old laptop used by this old lady with a compact Raspberry Pi computer!
I have not purchased a Pi camera so I would like to build a RPi/Camera system to send / receive SSTV pictures with my HF radio.
Another opportunity to learn.
Thanks!
I’m thinking of using the Pi & camera as a wildlife cam for our cabin in the mountains of Montana.
For lighting control
I’ll use it to automatically water my garden and take time lapse video of myself utterly failing at gardening.
Would love to try time lapse photography.
I would like to (try) make a smart assistant out of it
Definitely would want to give klipper a go, but being able to use it to learn coding in general is also good!
I would use the RPI as a Minecraft server, and use the camera module on a magic mirror project.
would love to get this to upgrade my print server
Such a cool thing to do! I would use the pi to set up a small NAS server for me at home. Mainly to archive photos but also to try and run a vpn set up. Thanks so much!
I would love to have this Raspberry Pi, I would use it as a web server and maybe a surveillance device with its camera
Want to try and setup a bitcoin full node.
Thank you for the giveaway! I’d finally replace my Pi3 that’s served so many random uses including a nightlight, travel router, and adblocker!
I would use it as an Octopi server that is able to use the camera for remote monitoring of my 3D printing jobs as well as making time lapse movies of my builds, thanks for the opportunity!
Cheers, Bernie
I want to set up a NAS and a VPN. Thank you for the opportunity!
Thanks for the website! I plan on building a home security system and teaching my son electronics and coding.
I was here!
I’d use it for PiHole or monitoring wildlife in the backyard.
I would love to have my own RPi to tinker and learn programming with Python. I already started to search for RPi sometime ago, but it’s so hard to get one myself. I would really like to use it as a thing to learn how to code and create fantastic things that can develop over time! Take care and thanks for everything you do!
Would love to have tiny home server with usb 3.0,
That sips on power, that would be ultra cheap to run 24/7
For the camera, I really need to get one operational for my 3d printer.
For the pi? I want to make a homeassistant Kiosk!
If I win i’d be able to upgrade my portainer setup & move to this standalone pi, I can then use one of the old PI’s for a lil NAS project for my camera system
this will be my first raspberry pi, good thing it comes with a camera because i want to use it for machine learning.
This would work great for a home assistant server incorporating node-red
I would love a Raspberry Pi 4 to finally make my Digital Movie Library available on my TV. Since the Pi 4 supports 4K via HDMI it’s perfect for connecting to our TV
Wouldn’t use this for anything too fancy – I would run NxFilter on it for content filtering for the kids to replace the ancient rpiB+ that its currently running on, for the camera it would be nice to be able to use it to monitor the brooder I have set up in the basement for my chicks (always worry about the heat lamp causing a fire)
thanks!
The RPi4 and camera would be used for an educational robotic platform.
I would like to use them for an educational project (object detection). Thank you for your consideration.
I’d like to use the Pi and the camera to watch the wildlife in my backyard 🙂
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(If it were a CM4, I’d be happy to get one!)
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I would experiment with setting up a NAS, possibly even a Plex server, setting up Octoprint to monitor my 3d printer. Maybe even some surveillance.
I’d like to use it for a portable desktop computer, laptops aren’t my favorite, I think this might be a good compromise with a USB monitor, small keyboard, etc.
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I want to try to build a PiKVM. Maybe some digitization of analog watermeters with the camera.
I’m planning to build a portable Software Defined Radio (SDR) for use in the truck and POTA / SOTA ( Parks On The Air / Summits On The Air; for the non Hams out there).
Oh, since you’ve included a camera, I’ll put together a critter cam to see who’s getting into my garbage. It’s probably raccoons, but neighbors have seen foxes, coyotes, and cougars on their cams.
I’ve seen where it’s possible to filter one of the pin outlets, filter and modulate it for weak signal communications. Great asset for emergency comes since I live in wildfire, earthquake, and tsunami country.
Would use a PI4 to build a DigiPi for emcom use…
Camera hmm would a learning curve to do something with..
I’ve got a couple of needs for a raspi. I need one for my Voron build, need one to finish my digital camera build and need to finish up my home automation project.
I’d love to get my hands on a Pi4 and camera module. I am just beginning my Pi journey but my intent is to educate myself enough so that when my kids are older, I can continue to expose them to more STEM stuff than my ancient mechanical engineering background can offer! The camera module is cool as well as I would love to start capture imagery of the wildlife around my home without having to shell out into some 3rd part software…
I would use the RPI4 and camera for a security camera system.
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I would use it in my RV to monitor dogs and temperature/humidity.
Love to have this as either an surveilance camera and or as a hyperion server. maybe also homeassistant.
Thank – I would use it to monitor my backyard.
I’d love to set up Home Assistant on the Pi
Planning on setting up a home server with it.
With a Pi i can finally play with Klipper on my 3D Printer
I will use this raspberry pi to continue my efforts to automate my home.
I was thinking of setting up a pi-hole or HomeAssistant for my first RaspberryPi project!
Good luck!
I’d either use this to experiment with Linux desktops or build a bare metal synthesiser!
Planning to use both to practice Machine Vision for my future robotics projects. Other cameras might be better suited but if it comes as a package, why not?
I would love to finally create a nas system for my home
I’d learn image recognition and python, and attach a camera to it to make a license recognition software for a parking next to my window.
Oh wow, I think I’d use this for Lightburn with my new Laser and the camera to watch the laser.
Getting into camera module pi projects
Ahoy! Please enter me to win a Raspberry Pi. This would probably become a dedicated media server/slideshow box for one of my TVs.
I’d love to make an automation for detecting when I’ve post new post
Just learning day by day with Docker containers or by using HTB.
I’d use it for 3d printing!
Would like to use one to build a media streamer/video chat box (most likely something based on android) for my parents TV!
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Thanks for the alerts!
I’ll probably use it for retropi or I’ll make a Camera always wanted to do that.
To get the kids into technology
Going to use this to watch birds and mount it near my bird feeder.
I’d like to start an electronics club for kids and have been thinking of what could be done with various sensors that would be cool and would give kids an appreciation for what they could do with electronics. I guess there aren’t many cooler sensors than image sensors. 🙂
I have some archival tasks in need of a server 🙂
I’d like to use it to explore new home automation ideas!
I would like to use it on my Sovol SV06 Plus to setup octoprint like I have on my SV06 and using the camera to monitor my prints
Bring on the RetroNAS
I would upgrade my mom’s magic mirror (more of a dashboard of her appointments) from the 3b+ it’s on, and use the camera in my beachcam on Twitter when I have time to fix it now that Elon broke API v1. Or use the Pi 4 for NAS duties.
Could make a mean little minecraft server for my kids
Count me in. I’m always looking for ways to automate things and the Pi would be a great addition.
I would love to use both to start doing some object detection projects ive had my eye on.
This would be super cool! Thanks in advance!
To learn Python and create a VoIP system.
i will probably use it for Pi-hole or Home assistant
Build a smart home hub!
My son and I would use it to control our 3D printer and allow us to monitor long running prints.
Yay! Raspi.
I’d use this for a mini DVD player project I’m working on!
Looking to build a RPI based NTP and PTP server
Not entirely sure what exactly I’m going to use all of this for but I’m definitely using them for some smart home shenanigans eheh
I’d set up a home pc
I’d use it for some python coding and maybe some tinkering with the camera, maybe add it to home bridge
I’m here for my prerequisite comment & look forward to seeing what comes in the newsletter! (Also yes, my email is real :P)
Appreciate you!
I’d use it to make an internet connected all sky camera at my astronomy club’s observatory. Maybe have it send out alerts when the sky’s clear but clouds are in the forecast.
For years I kinda wanted an rPi, but I didn’t know what to do with it, so it seemed like a waste. I finally figured it out… in 2020, when you couldn’t get one anymore. I’d love to finally experiment with a low-power home server, and find lots of fun stuff to do with the camera to boot.
For now I would use the camera as a pet cam. I’d like to figure out some smart home integration or similar but I’ve got a lot more of the smart home part to figure out first.
I’d love to set up a BirdNET-Pi!
It will be helpful for us to place the camera a great distance before our house and make it recognize the bus and notify us of its arrival
for learning how to build and debug k8s clusters
I would use it to take over the world! ….or a backup NAS.
I’d love to use it for creating a book scanner and converter. I have a couple of ideas for page turning that I’d like to try.
I’d use it for watching my 3D printer.
I’d use the Pi and camera to setup a Home Assistant server with Frigate for NVR.
Howdy! Would create an octoprint server to monitor my two 3d printers. Thanks!
I’ve got an idea for integrating home assistant with Minecraft and allowing players to turn physical lights on and off in a room, (a controlled physical environment) using the camera as feedback so the players can see the results of their actions.
A NAS or PiHole setup would be a few fun projects! Would also love the chance to tinker with the camera! Could be the start of a home security system!
Kipper 3d printing
I would setup octoprint for my 3d printer.
Thank you so much for this generous giveaway! <3
love rpilocator! Thanks for helping me source parts for farm automation and remote access.
Hey mate! Thanks for this incredible giveaway.
I’d love to start a home lab and I have quite a few service I would love to run such as an automated CI, blog and some other misc stuff here and there (pwd manager for example)
And with the camera module I would certainly create an automation for a lighting system I have on the bench with an Arduino for a while. But still waiting for something to interface it with.
Unfortunately I could have my hands on a raspberry even while being actively searching for a bit longer than a year and a half now.
Once again thanks for the giveaway
Have a great day
I will use this to further my education and love for technology 🙂
Im thinking of using it as a host for an ai application.
Home automation
I would use it for a low power home automation server
To play games with my sons
If I win, I’ll give the Pi to a friend and maybe keep the camera module.
Will use it to stream video from the air.
i’ve been trying to get one of these for a while. i want to build a home automation system. thanks!
This will be my first pie. Gust hope I have the brain to set it up.
I will use it for a Magic Mirror with face recognition
Going to add this to my 3d printer!!
I would make some home automation/monitoring system
A young programmer looking to start his portfolio with a homemade security system. Been trying to get a Pi4 for a while, it would be a great board for what i want to do!
I’d like to watch my dog sleep while I’m out
Love to use it for a media player. Thanks for all the hard work!
Makeup tutorial station is my plan
Thanks! I’ve used your page for years now it’s been so useful. I’d like to learn more coding if I win
I wish i could win this so i could run small stream on this
I’d like to run home assistant on it
I would like to make a homemade security system that uses facial recognition
Raspberry Pis have been a great asset to the world, giving everybody an affordable way to get into computing. I have loved them ever since Leap Day, 2012!
I would use the Pi 4B 8GB and camera for a project with my younger brother
I would finally make the leap to Linux and open source in general. Maybe I could learn enough skills to make a few extra bucks in retirement. Not sure what I would to with the camera yet. After a little experimentation, I would come up with some kind of project.
This is awesome!
I want one for a satellite project!
I want to use it for my main plex computer. Just can’t get a hold of one at a reasonable price.
I plan on moving my RocketChat server from my old, crappy, slow Linux box to the Pi.
I’m starting to get into 3d printing & would like to set up octo print & be able to watch prints as the progress…
I will use for pet tracking project.
Happy to be here let’s go!
I am planning to use it for my masters thesis, where I’d like to support my friend in her lab and automate sporophyte and other micro organism detection and other metrics made by camera. Pi is perfect for it, because I can just take the Pi to the lab and have the whole automation system on the go.
Build a cyberdeck!
I would use it as a home assistant.
Hi André,
Really appreciate the website, it has helped me get a raspberry pi zero for a security camera and a pi 3 for octoprint!
I would like to enter the competition for the pi 4 so that I can get high quality footage from inside the enclosure of a cnc machine I’m building!
Hi, Great service you are providing! I’d us a new pi for setting up HomeAssistant.
I’d use it as an octoprint assistant for my Ender 3 printer
I’d use it as a basic security cam for my apartment
I would use it for facial recognition
Hope I’m not too late or filling up the wrong spot- I’ve been putting off buying a pi for a while now, it would be great to use for octoprint, or putting Home Assistant on it- I’ll decide when I get one, and probably pick both and buy a second pi 😉
As a radio amateur I will use this RPI to build a Digi Repeater
I’ll definitely use that giveaway for a home assistant server
I’ll use it for OctoPrint with my new 3D printer.
Honestly, I don’t know where i would use the Camera, but 8gb pi is nice addition to k3s cluster
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Home Entertainment System
I’d like to use the device and camera to make a stop motion film with my kids.