Recently at Moogfest, which is a music and technology festival set in North Carolina, artists Kyle McDonald and Surya Mattu exhibited an installation piece known as the WiFI Whisperer. The Whisperer was connected to the festival’s wifi network and sniffed out…
Category: Networking
Share your computing power with BOINC on the Raspberry Pi
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (or BOINC) is a way for you to get involved on global research projects. You install a client and then the slack time of your particular machine is used in the networked task of…
Create a Raspberry Pi access point with PaPiRus and Pi PoE
Francesco Vannini recently had an article published in The MagPi about creating an access point using a Pi and two add-on boards: PaPiRus and Pi PoE from Pi Supply. He’s now blogged the full instructions of the project and you can read them…
60 core supercomputer made out of Raspberry Pis
YouTube user Phaxmohdem has built a 15 Raspberry Pi 2 (60 core) supercomputer cluster into a portable toolbox. He is using a 300W power supply for it but it only draws about 45W when under full load. He’s done some benchmarks but…
New add-on board brings wifi and Bluetooth to the Raspberry Pi Zero
RedBear (who previously ran a Kickstarter for a wifi-enabled Arduino-type board) have just launched their latest crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. This time, it is for an IoT add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that adds 802.11n wifi and Bluetooth 4.1…
Use your Raspberry Pi 3 as a wifi access point
Phil Martin has worked out how to activate AP mode on the built-in wifi module on the Raspberry Pi 3. Using some standard Linux software, he has written a tutorial that takes you through the activation, allow the Pi to give out…
Run a network stack over Bluetooth on the Raspberry Pi 3
By now, of course, everyone knows that the new Raspberry Pi 3 includes Bluetooth capability. Andrew Mulholland has made a video that shows you how to run a full network stack via Bluetooth using his Mac. If anyone can get…
Increase the range and quality of your Raspberry Pi 3 wifi
Ward, from DorkbotPDX, has tried out two concepts for increasing the range and quality of his Raspberry Pi 3 wifi connection. I should point out straight away: this hack voids your warranty and FCC certification, and the soldering is a bit…
Setting a static IP address on the Raspberry Pi running Jessie Lite
Jeff Geerling has discovered in his work on the Raspberry Pi Dramble cluster that Raspbian Jessie does networking a bit differently. Whereas before (with Wheezy) it was just a case of adding some lines to /etc/network/interfaces, now you need to add some…
Raspberry Pi 2 & 3 hosted some of the RPF site on launch day
Pete Stevens from Mythic Beasts has described on the Raspberry Pi blog how a Raspberry Pi 2 and a Raspberry Pi 3 were pressed into action on the Pi 3 launch day to handle some of the traffic. It makes for interesting…