180+ DIY Raspberry Pi Projects and Tutorials with Code and Schematics

Raspberry Pi is a powerful palm-sized pocket computer based on the ARM Cortex architecture. With its high operating speed, memory, and wireless capabilities, electronics engineers and makers use it for a variety of applications, including home automation, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, and computer vision. If you are new and looking for interesting Raspberry Pi projects for beginners, this collection is a great place to start with basic components such as LEDs, sensors, buzzers, relays, and push buttons. Our hub also consists of good Raspberry Pi projects using Raspberry Pi 2, Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi 4, ranging from basic projects to advanced industrial projects. Whether you are a student, hobbyist, electronics enthusiast, or a beginner, CircuitDigest's collection brings together innovative Raspberry Pi-based projects that match your interests and technical skills.

If you are looking for projects from other development boards of Raspberry Pi, you can check out our Raspberry Pi Zero Projects and Raspberry Pi Pico Projects. 

Getting started with Raspberry Pi is a great way to learn programming. Here are some interesting ideas for Raspberry Pi projects that demonstrate how this small computer can be used in practical applications.

QR code (Quick Response code) is a type of matrix barcode that contains information about the item to which it is attached, like location data, identifier, or a tracker that identifies a website or app, etc. It is a machine-readable optical label in the form of a 2D image with a unique pattern. To learn more about QR codes and how to generate a QR code, follow our previous…

In today’s world of cutting-edge technologies, Digital Image Processing is growing very fast and become an important part of many digital devices like mobile, security cameras, laptops, etc.

The most common applications of Digital Image Processing are object detection, Face Recognition, and people counter. So in this tutorial, we are going to build…

Energy Monitors, whether covering the entire apartment or deployed to monitor just one appliance, provide a way for you to keep track of your consumption and make necessary adjustments. While they are increasingly becoming available on the market, the maker in me still feels it will be a great idea to build a DIY version that could be tailored to meet specific personal…

Raspberry Pi Hats are the same as shields for Arduino, they can directly fit on the top of Raspberry Pi and don’t require any further connections. Here we are going to build an RGB LCD Hat for Raspberry Pi on PCB. This LCD Hat consists of a 16x2 LCD module, five switches, and three NeoPixel LEDs. Here switches are used to change the text on display and NeoPixel LEDs are used…

The ability of machines to use a camera to look at the real world and interpret​ data from it would have a greater influence on its applications. Be it a simple food delivery Robot like the Starship Robots or an advanced self driving car like Tesla, they are rely on information obtained from their highly sophisticated cameras to take decisions. In this tutorial we will…

In previous article, we covered various Music streaming softwares which can be installed on Raspberry Pi. Here we will pick one of them and install it on Raspberry Pi. Since we covered the installation of media servers like Kodi and Plex in our past tutorials, I feel this time, we should turn the spotlight towards the audiophiles and cover installing one of the music servers…

Raspberry Pi is the pocket sized computer having almost all the feature of a normal computer including USB port, LAN port, audio/video output, HDMI port etc. It also has inbuilt Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity which makes it perfect candidate to build various online servers like Webserver, Media server, Print Server, Plex server etc. So here we…

Raspberry Pi is an amazing credit-card sized computer most suited for IoT based applications and online servers like Print server, webserver, Media server. Many types of custom ROMs and custom operating systems are available for Raspberry Pi and you just need to burn the custom ROM on SD card and insert it in Raspberry Pi. Like Windows 10 and Android can be easily installed…

Designers use many wireless communication systems like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE 4.0), Zigbee, ESP8266 Wi-Fi Modules, 433MHz RF Modules, Lora, nRF etc. And the selection of medium depends on the type of application it is being used in. Among all, one popular wireless medium for local network communication is the nRF24L01. These modules operate on 2.4GHz (ISM band) with baud…

Raspberry Pi is the pocket sized computer having almost all the feature of a normal computer including USB port, LAN port, audio/video output, HDMI port etc. There are many official and unofficial third party operating systems are available for Raspberry Pi and we previously installed few of them on Raspberry pi like:

Installing Raspbian on Raspberry PI Installing…

Analog to digital conversion is a very important task in embedded electronics, as most of the sensors provide output as analog values and to feed them into microcontroller which only understand binary values, we have to convert them into Digital values. So to be able to process the analog data, microcontrollers need Analog to Digital Converter.

Some…

Bluetooth is one of the revolutionary technology to wirelessly transfer the data, control other devices, build home automation systems etc. But have you ever wondered that the Bluetooth can also be used for broadcasting any information to nearby devices to display important information, advertisements, easy checkout etc. There is a protocol developed by the Google to perform…