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Raspberry Pi Projects You Can Actually Do - Part Five: VPN

If you use public WiFi, you need a VPN. You can pay to use a commercial solution, or you can set one up in your own home for free. The problem with using public WiFi is that any data you send to an HTTP website is in the clear and available for anyone to read. A VPN encrypts your web traffic from your phone/desktop and sends it to the VPN server. Your traffic then proceeds to its destination encrypted or not based on if you're visiting a website over HTTP or HTTPS. The important part is VPNs make it so that no one sitting in the same cafe as you can snoop on your web traffic. Finally, VPNs can also be used to access location-locked services like Netflix even when you're travelling abroad. When you use a VPN, it's just like you're browsing the web from your home.

raspberry-pi | 2017.04.02 05:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

Raspberry Pi Projects You Can Actually Do - Part Four: Home Automation with Siri and a Raspberry Pi

It's been my dream for a long time to be able to control the lights in my house from anywhere in the world. Now I can do that without breaking the bank. Using a Raspberry Pi, some Etekcity Remote Control Outlets, and a 433 MHz transmitter, I can control the outlets in my home with Siri and any other HomeKit-enabled app on iOS. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to do it too.

raspberry-pi | 2016.09.18 05:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

Raspberry Pi Projects You Can Actually Do - Part Three: Dynamic DNS

If you have any reason to want to connect to your Raspbery Pi when you're away from home, you're going to want a dynamic DNS address. A dynamic DNS address lets you use a constant address like raspberry.johnsmith.com instead of an ever-changing IP address. This is useful if you've set up a VPN server on your Raspberry Pi or just like to tinker over SSH while you're away.

raspberry-pi | 2016.05.08 01:31 | Kurt Tomlinson

Raspberry Pi Projects You Can Actually Do - Part Two: Passwordless SSH

A lot of Raspberry Pi projects I've seen on the internet are pretty complicated and require the use of a lot of extra components. The projects that get the most attention are usually esoteric or hard to reproduce. I was able to find a couple useful projects that pretty much anyone can do without purchasing any extra components. This is the second blog post in the series, and it covers how to use a enable SSH without a password on your Raspberry Pi.

raspberry-pi | 2016.03.13 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

Raspberry Pi Projects You Can Actually Do - Part One: Print Server

A lot of Raspberry Pi projects I've seen on the internet are pretty complicated and require the use of a lot of extra components. The projects that get the most attention are usually esoteric or hard to reproduce. I was able to find a couple useful projects that pretty much anyone can do without purchasing any extra components. This is the first blog post in the series, and it covers how to use a Raspberry Pi [Raspberry Pi] as a print server so you can put your printer anywhere in your house.

raspberry-pi | 2016.03.06 00:00 | Kurt Tomlinson

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