Nice idea and build via Garage Tech.
Have you ever wondered what to do with that old laptop you kept for so long because you never had the heart to trough it away?
Plug a Raspberry Pi2 into your old laptop and give it a second life! Also wouldn’t it be great to get your Pi around the house with a very portable setup? I know you get a Pi-Top (I’ll admit it’s cool but $269.99 without the Pi!!!), you can get a Touchscreen even the original from the Pi Foundation, but the recycler in me sometimes screams for justice.
This setup I am using costs near to nothing and gets the dust off those useless laptops in the loft.
The idea is pretty easy; we get a Pi, plug it in two USB ports of the laptop via a Y cable, connect it via the Ethernet port to the NIC of the laptop, VNC into the Pi, configure the Wi-Fi and job done.
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