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Pi projects are represented by a great variety nowadays. Thus, this great diversity of things to do with Raspberry Pi scales up during such days as Christmas holidays. This happens not only due to the amount of free time that avid makers usually have during the Christmas holidays. Also because of a surge in demand for automation solutions and smart IoT products that actually comprises the best uses for Raspberry Pi technology.

To inspire thousands of our daily visitors we’ve made a chart of the best Raspberry Pi projects for Christmas. Read up to the end to learn the most proficient ones.

Christmas Raspberry Pi Projects Chart

Our list of selected projects (in accordance with the opinion of our editorial team) for 2018 includes:

A RetroPie Retro Gaming Bundle

Santa Detector

LED candles for Advent

Christmas Photo Booth

Christmas-Themed Smart Mirror

Christmas Tree Home Automation

Exterior Christmas Lights

Raspberry Pi Media Center for a Party

Digital Photo Frame Tree Decoration

Smart Gingerbread House

Raspberry Pi Fireplace

Frosty the Spyman

Twitter-controlled Lights

MIDI-Based Christmas Lights Animation System

IoT Santa Tracker

Animated Smart Elf

GiftBot: The Presents Delivery Unit

Responsive Automatic Player of Christmas Songs

Deus Ex is an action role-playing first-person shooter game. It was developed and released in 2000 by Ion Storm. The original series includes the six titles (all the consequent series were developed by Eidos Montréal): Deus Ex (2000), Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003), Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011), Deus Ex: The Fall (2013), Deus Ex Go (2016) and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (2016)

Raspbian is an operating system that used to be designed for Raspberry Pi devices by some enthusiasts and is now supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation officially. However, this is not the only software for RPi (or other ARM, in general).  There are also a lot of other operating systems that can be set up and running on such single board PCs effectively as well as there are a bunch of pre-installed images for such kind of devices. The “images” are either some pieces of software or a pre-set of applications to prepare the Raspberry Pi devices for some narrow purposed functionality. 

How to skyrocket the performance of your #RaspberryPi safely, fast and efficiently? There’re actually different ways to do that, which are a little bit tricky and contain some dangers. These dangers are the main issues you should always bear in your mind as they can cause a complete hardware loss. 

So, the three ways to boost your Raspberry Pi performance are GPU, CPU and memory overclocking, with the least one including a secret additional variation of overclocking probably no one using correctly and accurately. In fact, the overclocking itself is no more than changing working parameters for CPU, GPU and memory frequencies   

So, when you still decide to try these type of operations with your RPi device(s) you should beware of the dangers of overheating the hardware as the working conditions become quite extreme for that type of device as soon as they are undergone with such manipulations. Moreover, in case the damage happens you lose the warranty! 

Obviously, learning the subject really in-depth is vital BEFORE you decide to give the overclocking a try. 

Finally! Everything that one ever wanted to know of #Retropie on #RaspberryPi and #Odroid or other ARMs and PCs in a single article! Any keen retro gamer can learn a lot of useful stuff:    - how to Install and update Retropi    - how to setup EmultationStaion and RetroArch    - three ways of configuring the controllers    - guide on adding and updating the emulators (optional and experiment ones!)    - upgrading the Retropie to play x86 PC games and much more 

Have you ever dreamed of playing great Windows PC games on #Retropire? I bet you have! Just imagine how awesome it could be to enjoy your favorite old (like Might and Magic) or even more modern (like Diablo II) games, especially on a big TV plasma screen and using a console controller!

That brings quite a lot of freshness to what seems have already become outdated. And whats more, it's very convenient. In fact, your so-called before all-in-one gaming machine becomes literally ultimate and truly all-in-one when you supplement all this console variety with PC games. 

But why am I speaking as if the way to bring PC games to Retropie has been invented? The matter is that it has REALLY been invented. Believe it or not, but there is even a full guide on how to play Windows PC games ob Retropie.

The automated trading on Forex is an easy thing if you have a robot, working 24/7 and implementing best trading strategies. So, we have tried and succeeded to create such a robot on #RaspberryPi and #Metatrader4. This turns out to be a personal broker at costs close to nothing! 

Learn our complete guide on how to create personal Forex robot for fully automated trading. 

DIY NAS is a great way to manage your files safely, with an access from anywhere in the world and with a wide range of possibilities to backup, restore, and much more.

Make your #RaspberryPi a great music streamer or simply enjoy a very convenient music player on #RaspberryPi using #Spotify. Learn our full guide on how to setup Spotify on Raspbian

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What is the best browser for Raspberry Pi? Need something more powerful than Chromium to use on #Raspbian? Learn how to setup Google Chrome on Raspberry Pi

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A great idea of Running a MetaTrader on Raspberry Pi

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Create your own TeamSpeak 3 Server on #RaspberryPi. Setup #TeamSpeak 3 client and use this short TeamSpeak 3 server guide for any ARM devices >>>

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