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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463852
Pages 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Kick-Start Your Raspberry Pi Zero Setting Up Physical and Wireless Connections Programming with Linux Programming with Python Getting Your Hands Dirty Using the GPIO Header Controlling the LEDs and Displays Controlling the Hardware Taking Digital Inputs to the Raspberry Pi Zero Interfacing Sensors with the Raspberry Pi Zero Cooking up Projects to Amaze the World!

Adding Wi-Fi dongle over USB OTG


An easy way to communicate with your Pi and get your little computer connected to the Internet is connecting it to a USB Wi-Fi adapter. Once you have your Raspberry Pi Zero connected to Wi-Fi, we can get it to interact with pretty much anything that lives on your home network.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need your Raspberry Pi Zero, a USB OTG adapter, and a USB Wi-Fi device. Most of this equipment comes with any starter kit and is inexpensive to buy individually-the OTG adapters can be found for less than $5 and Wi-Fi dongles are $10-$15. It is still amazing that a lot of these accessories cost at least as much as the computer they are needed for!

A small USB OTG dongle and Wi-Fi adapter make for a pretty small setup:

You do need to add power, but even with that, you maintain a very small footprint for what will be an Internet-enabled computer.

The embedded Linux site ( elinux.org ) has a comprehensive listing of tested and compatible Wi-Fi cards...

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