One of the biggest reasons for the success of the Raspberry Pi is its flexibility and customization capabilities. We can do just about anything with the Pi, which makes it such an exciting and dynamic platform.
In the following pages, we look at some of the projects that we found to be very interesting ways of using the Raspberry Pi. Again, we are really only limited to our imaginations. There is a huge community out there to help us along the way, which is another reason why the Raspberry Pi has had such success and staying power.
One of the coolest (pun intended) use cases we found out there for the Raspberry Pi was the ability to build and customize our own weather station. Raspberry Weather is built upon the Raspian image, so we can install directly from NOOBS or using the Raspbian image we discussed earlier in this chapter. The site is a huge help and provides instructions on getting Raspberry Weather installed within Raspbian...