[Swansea Hackspace] Raspberry Pi laptop

[Emyr Morris]

yes you can - you can specify the devices WAN  and which device is the
hotspot device

unless you have the new Pi+ you would then need a hub to power both wifi
adapters.

I have one of the little nano ones and my stock Pi is quite happy running
just that off the USB, no keyboard/mouse/HDMI etc, it just about gets away
with it

to latch onto a distant wifi in a campsite something with an antenna might
be preferable - the addition of one of these would be interesting

http://www.wa5vjb.com/products1.html

The standard instructions are here for ETHERNET -> WIFI hotspot using a Pi.
it works a treat!

http://www.maketecheasier.com/set-up-raspberry-pi-as-wireless-access-point/

All the best

Emyr


On 27 October 2014 18:57, Graham Owens <grahamowensuk at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Emyr,
>
> If your going down that route for your camper, can you make it wifi ->
> wifi?
>
> When i go down freshwater east with the caravan, i get no phone signal,
> but after paying a small fortune to the site, i got wifi - limited to one
> device.  I used an windows app, but it kept spamming me, but im sure your
> pi solution would be great, anyway the point of my post was to see if you
> can include wifi->wifi from the same adapter.
>
> On 27 October 2014 15:52, Emyr Morris <em at preseli.com> wrote:
>
>> I've given up trying to use one with a screen in a meaningful way - I
>> mostly use SSH access to mine now.
>>
>> I picked up a copy of "Raspberry Pi The Complete Manual",
>> http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/raspberry-pi-complete-manual-out-now
>>
>> quite expensive given that all the tutorials in the book are in the
>> public domain.
>>
>> Some of the tutorials were faulty and online research got me back on
>> track - but it was and still is a handy reference to have on the coffee
>> table. Useful as a lot of the firewalling 'iptables' stuff I hadn't done in
>> years and had forgotten - other things were new.
>>
>> All in all it was fun to try out the different tutorials and get the
>> little Pi to perform tricks (some of them really worked well) - running Tor
>> was fun! Not something I would do day to day.
>>
>> The one project that will probably end up as a permanent feature is the
>> making of a 'hotspot' - I can see me installing the Pi in my camper van to
>> hook up to wired ethernet now available at some campsite hookup points to
>> provide me with wifi in-van, this will give me superior firewall protection
>> from other campsite users (which a standard wireless access point wouldn't
>> provide) (I know commercial alternatives exist but none are as much fun of
>> making it yourself using a Pi)
>>
>> I thought I had a PDF copy of the book but I cannot find it at the moment
>> sorry. In my humble opinion it is worth paying for if only to help feed the
>> people who produced it (even though it was all plagiarised off the interweb)
>>
>> Later
>>
>> Emyr
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27 October 2014 00:13, Ian Bullfrog <sevendev.tk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I just got my raspberry Pi I inherited from someone working
>>> yesterday via Noobs and Raspbian!
>>> oh yes!
>>> and have been sticking things in a bag for it, tiny mouse, keyboard etc
>>> etc.
>>> So a bit excited :)
>>>
>>> and Yeah ive heard of this project, seen it, but not seen this page,
>>> didnt realise it was going for funding etc, id seen it many months ago.
>>>
>>> but the website! sheesh!
>>> Im connected via my phone to browse.
>>> i only get 500MB data a month.
>>> thats about 16.8 MB a day.
>>> .....this site sucked over 13, without any videos runnning, before I had
>>> to pull the plug on my connection and bin it.
>>> so,
>>> ill check the rest out again :)
>>>
>>> and yeah, Im quite interested in teh Pi, if anyone has anything going
>>> with one of them, let me know :)
>>> IVe just got the programming with python book from teh library for the
>>> raspberry pi, so shall start that :)
>>>
>>> oh, and does anyone know what smallish screen is recommended for one?
>>> and ive realised that you need to create a config.txt file on the card
>>> in order to get it to work with NON HDMI screens, such as my HDMI to VGA
>>> converter to use a standard monitor.
>>>
>>> anyone got experience of this?
>>>
>>> ok cheerio
>>>
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