If you use a Raspberry Pi for DIY projects, you can connect it to a monitor. The only exceptions are the Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero 2 W. That's great if you're setting up a one-and-done project ...

The tiny Raspberry Pi is an incredibly versatile computer, but in order to maximize its capabilities, you'll first need to connect it to a Wi-Fi network.

You'd have to connect your computer to the new Wi-Fi network and find the Pi's new IP address before you can reconnect via SSH.

Most Raspberry Pi users won't have it connected to a display, so here's how to get setup to run it headless.

Just make sure that the SSH server inside Raspbian is enabled by using the raspi-config tool. It's also a good idea to assign a fixed IP address to the Raspberry Pi.

Last time I showed you how to expose a web service on a Raspberry Pi (or, actually, any kind of device) by using a reverse proxy from Pagekite. On your Pi, you just need a simple Python script.

Assuming it's 192.168.3.111, you can now log in to it from another computer with sudo ssh [email protected] . Irrespective of how you're accessing the Raspberry Pi, the next order of business is to ...