[ale] Raspberry pi standalone hotspot/apache server - how insane?

[Greg Clifton]

The answer to where is clearly Micro Center, they have the Pi 3 B for $20
and the Pi 3 B+ for $30 right now.

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:27 PM Raj Wurttemberg via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> I do something similar. When we go on vacation I take a Raspberry Pi with
> a distribution called RetroPie loaded with many gigs pf arcade, Atari,
> Apple, and Commodore games with me. It's paired with an Xbox wireless
> remote. I only use this Pi for video games but there is no reason I
> couldn't load up the GUI or install Apache or a VPN client.
>
> https://retropie.org.uk/
>
>  Disclaimer: I only pull out this Pi if it's raining and the kids are
> bored (I have 10-yo triplets).
>
> /Raj
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:36 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> So, if one was headed out on an extended cruise, and one wanted to do a
>> couple of things:
>>
>> 1) have a standalone hotspot to allow an android phone and a Roku stick
>> to communicate so the phone could cast some learning videos to the TV.
>> (tai-chi/qigong - long cruise)
>>
>> 2) have a that hotspot also provide a rudimentary webserver, so that
>> static html pages could be served up to some number of people,
>> completely independent of the ship's Wifi.
>>
>> It looks like a raspberry pi 3 could readily do that.
>>
>> How much work to set that up?  Where might one find the best deal in
>> town on one?
>>
>> Having never worked with one,  I'm guessing that one can find a base
>> linux, and the hdmi port will drive a display, and one can stick a USB
>> keyboard and mouse on it, and then it's pretty much a small linux box?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>
>> Neal
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