Kiran Kankipati has posted to the Raspberry Pi Google+ community about TrafficSqueezer which is a WAN optimization device that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2. They’ve provided a downloadable OS image for easy set-up and it relies on using a…
Category: Networking
Preparing a multiple-Raspberry Pi balloon launch
Francois Dion is currently blogging about his team’s (Piedmont Triad of North Carolina) efforts to launch a high altitude balloon payload with 7 (count ’em!) networked Raspberry Pis and multiple cameras. Read more here.
Raspi-LTSP becomes PiNet – a centralised Raspberry Pi management system
Raspi-LTSP is an ingenious way to run a school Raspberry Pi laboratory. It allows the teacher (or IT manager) to set-up an old PC that hosts the full Raspbian operating system which then gets ‘pushed’ over the network to individual Raspberry…
DIY Raspberry Pi VPN/TOR Router
Anonymous browsing is all the rage nowadays, what with government snooping on the increase. Well now you can set up your Raspberry Pi as an anonymous router which shows up as a wireless hotspot which you then connect your desktop or…
Automatically re-connect wifi on the Raspberry Pi
Alex Bain has written a brief tutorial that will help you to set-up an automatically-running script which will detect if your wifi connection is dead and then, if so, restart the service (thus attempting to re-connect). Read the tutorial here.
Artist experiments with networking on the Raspberry Pi
Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Grant has been experimenting with small mesh networks to see if they can be used for art installations. She’s created something call SubNodes: The Subnodes project is an open source initiative focused on streamlining the process of setting up…
Create a Raspberry Pi cluster – video series
Rasim Muratovic has started a YouTube series on the creation of a Raspberry Pi B+ cluster. In this part, he’s taking care of the physical set-up and plugging the Pis into a router. Future parts will deal with installing Raspbian on…
Monitor your home network usage from a Raspberry Pi
Rotem Tamir has blogged about a way to use your Pi, Firebase, AngularJS and some Python to monitor your home wifi network. It’s a full tutorial and should take about an hour for you to replicate it. Read the tutorial here.
Set-up wifi on your Raspberry Pi from the command line
Richard, the Average Man, has written a straight-forward tutorial that takes you through the process of setting up wifi from the command line. Read how to do it here.
Ethical hacking experiment uses Raspberry Pi
In June, European law enforcement agency Europol, backed by German ethical hacking company SySS, conducted an experiment in London. The experiment involved setting a mobile Raspberry Pi unit up as a wifi hotspot to allow connected devices access to the internet. It…