projects for an OLD raspberry pi!

[fairyrune]

hello melonland!

once upon a time, young rune got given a raspberry pi (1.0) by their father. it was loaded with raspbian. i spent countless hours playing with scratch and learning htmlcss from a book called "raspberry pi for dummies", which was also part of my present. it was a lot of fun!

nowadays, i have a much more robust and capable desktop PC, which i use for gaming. the old raspberry pi doesn't have a lot of processing power - 256MB in RAM only - and so i am likely unable to use it for much of my daily activities at all. but i still want to use it. the board is still functional and has been kept in good condition, and i'm not in the habit of throwing out perfectly good tech! it probably wouldn't fetch a good price either, and to be honest, i'm interested in this sort of thing.

the most obvious project? pi-hole, a DNS sinkhole ad blocker. however - for several reasons - i'm looking for other suggestions! preferably, things that don't require many/any additional parts, or parts that are very cheap and easy to find. i'm not looking for something crazy niche... just something to make use of this little piece of tech i've been holding onto! most projects i've found that are small and easy for beginners are also using a lot of newer raspberry pi models. which sort of defeats the point...!