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

[Raj Wurttemberg]

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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