<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">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.</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:27 PM Raj Wurttemberg via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div><a href="https://retropie.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://retropie.org.uk/</a> </div><div><br></div><div> Disclaimer: I only pull out this Pi if it's raining and the kids are bored (I have 10-yo triplets).<br></div><div><br></div><div>/Raj</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:36 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So, if one was headed out on an extended cruise, and one wanted to do a <br>
couple of things:<br>
<br>
1) have a standalone hotspot to allow an android phone and a Roku stick <br>
to communicate so the phone could cast some learning videos to the TV. <br>
(tai-chi/qigong - long cruise)<br>
<br>
2) have a that hotspot also provide a rudimentary webserver, so that <br>
static html pages could be served up to some number of people, <br>
completely independent of the ship's Wifi.<br>
<br>
It looks like a raspberry pi 3 could readily do that.<br>
<br>
How much work to set that up? Where might one find the best deal in <br>
town on one?<br>
<br>
Having never worked with one, I'm guessing that one can find a base <br>
linux, and the hdmi port will drive a display, and one can stick a USB <br>
keyboard and mouse on it, and then it's pretty much a small linux box?<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
<br>
<br>
Neal<br>
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