Using a Foundation drive headless - questions

[dwcsjca]

Hi Simon- thanks a lot! The detailed instructions are great, plus the well-commented code- I’ll try it this weekend- this will be really cool!

I can envision a setup where the Node Zero (or Smart Cable Module with HDD or flash drive) is used as a 24/7 surveillance or time-lapse camera, stand-alone (not connected to LAN/internet). One Project Space can be the camera recorder and another can be a webserver with WiFi AP so you can retrieve video files.

I recently did two projects for headless servers with multiple boot modes that this will be perfect for. One is a local apt mirror (raspbian and raspberrypi apt package repositories)- one boot mode to download/update the packages and another to serve the packages. The other project is a RACHEL-Pi server- one boot mode for downloading RACHEL modules and another to serve the modules. These projects are described below.

Thanks!

Experimental software: pidrive-apt-mirror

Hi, one of our projects involves bringing R-Pi and PiDrive to schools in regions where Internet connectivity is poor or where connection to Internet is not desirable due to security or privacy concerns. To address this, we’re planning to use the PiDrive as a local APT software package server. The link below is to a PDF with description, download links and instructions for software setup. Please consider this a prototype and please provide feedback and any suggestions. Thanks!

RACHEL-Pi USB installer

We’re working with World Possible, creators of RACHEL. We created experimental software that installs RACHEL-Pi on an external USB drive (e.g. PiDrive). RACHEL is a system that delivers freely available software and content modules to places/regions with insufficient internet access. R-Pi is one of the main HW platforms and the RACHEL-Pi software turns the Pi + storage into a WiFi AP and web-server. RACHEL/RACHEL-Pi is produced by World Possible, a non-profit org. For more info: http://rach…