I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W that is serving as my Pihole server, but that only uses about 10% of its very underpowered CPU, and I feel like I’m not getting my money’s worth. Anyone have any lightweight project ideas I can run on it to use up more of its resources?
Could I run BOINC limited to 50% CPU usage on it or is it too slow to complete jobs on time? Could I maybe seed torrents for popular Linux distros on it without the rather weak Wi-Fi chipset getting overwhelmed and bottlenecking the DNS server?
There are certainly some BOINC projects that could work with it, many BOINC projects support android as well which is similar in terms of specs. [email protected]
I run both pihole and openvpn on my pi so I can get ad free internet anywhere.
You could also use a camera module or a webcam as a security camera that you can access from outside of your home.
