Building a low-powered offline & offgrid bug-out media server

This project is to use my ancient Pi Zero as a super low power bugout media and file server. This is inspired by jcorp-nomad project that uses an ESP32 board for a ultra tiny, low-power, portable media server.

My build has has:

  • 12 movies
  • 1 Season of a tv show
  • 35 YouTube vidoes for the kids
  • 3 music playlists
  • A small collection of HTML & classic Flash games
  • 2 full length wrestling live events

This setup broadcasts a wifi network and makes all the movies, music, YouTube videos, and games availabe at http://IP_ADDR:3939 and a mini Wikipedia at http://IP_ADDR:8080.

I love builds and ideas like this. A low-powered, likely forgotten piece of technology give new life as a single tasker.

It solves a problem. Its a simple solution to getting information and entertainment in the short term.