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.