# davidferguson/pibakery

The blocks based, easy to use setup tool for Raspberry Pi

Repository: https://github.com/davidferguson/pibakery
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pibakery
Homepage: http://www.PiBakery.org
Language: JavaScript
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2020-10-26T06:16:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3685, "days_push": 2137, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1490, forks 146 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:52.388475+00:00)

## What it is
PiBakery is a blocks-based drag-and-drop desktop application for customising Raspberry Pi Raspbian images before writing them to an SD card. Users compose setup tasks (WiFi, VNC, installed software) as Scratch-like blocks, and PiBakery generates first-boot scripts and writes the configured image.

## Use cases
- set up raspberry pi wifi without a monitor
- create a customised raspbian sd card
- preconfigure raspberry pi before first boot
- edit an existing raspberry pi sd card
- automatically install software on raspberry pi first boot
- headless raspberry pi setup

## When to choose
- you want a beginner-friendly, Scratch-like GUI to configure a Raspberry Pi without booting it
- you need to add WiFi credentials or software to a Pi headlessly via SD card
- you want reusable, shareable setup recipes for Raspbian images

## When to avoid
- you need to customise non-Raspbian Linux distributions
- you want a scriptable or headless imaging tool rather than a GUI
- you need actively maintained software - the last release was in 2020

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: gui, developer-tools, configuration-management, file-system
- domain: embedded-systems, developer-tools
- platform: windows
- tags: raspberry-pi, sd-card-imaging, scratch-like-blocks, raspbian, drag-and-drop, automation, macos, linux, desktop, nodejs

## Member repositories
- davidferguson/pibakery (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.388475+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:36.681499+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/davidferguson/pibakery (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.388475+00:00, sha 0202f342b58e)
  - homepage: http://www.PiBakery.org (fetched 2026-08-29T11:39:52.053921+00:00, sha 2a6bb6763201)
  - site_page: https://pibakery.org/about.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:39:52.063179+00:00, sha d5af1201b0fb)
  - site_page: https://pibakery.org/docs/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:39:52.065164+00:00, sha 45b2a6a02673)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.