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Questions tagged [laptop]

A laptop is a portable computer. This tag is for questions about using the Raspberry Pi as a laptop.

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How to set up Raspberry Pi without a monitor?

I recently bought a Raspberry Pi, type B model. I want to set it up directly to my laptop screen, without any other monitor. I have not set it up yet. How do I connect my laptop's screen as the Raspberry Pi's display? I do not want to buy an HDMI…
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Connect Pi to an old laptop screen

I recently received my Pi in the post and I'm now trying to think what to use it for. I have had a look around and I quite like the idea of attaching a screen to it and using it as an RSS Reader/News updates etc. The question I have is this, I have…
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Can the Raspberry Pi be used to construct a laptop?

While there are lots of setups for desktop-like setups for the Raspberry Pi. (Using a monitor, mouse, etc.) Are there any instructions on how to set up a portable laptop configuration?
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How can I use a PC laptop or Mac Book to run a Raspberry Pi?

I want to let some smart programers play with a few Raspberry Pi boards at an event I am running. They will all have laptops and internet access. We probably won't have access to keyboards and screens though. Is it possible to use a laptop…
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Boot Laptop From USB With Wheezy?

I do not have my Raspberry Pi yet but would like to start playing with some code. I have successfully (I think) created my Wheezy SD Card, but was not able to mount it on my laptop, so I ran dd and put Wheezy onto a thumb drive. Now I am trying to…
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How to boot up & start using raspberry pi using laptop as a monitor

I have recently purchased a Raspberry PI 3 Model B+. I also have an ethernet cable, a 8GB SD card with raspbian os on it as suggested by most of the tutorials(using etcher), an HDMI cable & my laptop. So, here's the issue I'm facing. How do I know…
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How Viable is an RPI Laptop?

I've been seriously looking into making one of the Raspberry Pi Laptops that have been floating around using the Motorola Atrix Lapdock solution found here and here. The whole reason for doing this in the first place was because I don't really have…
M. Choi
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Old mac PowerBook with Raspberry pi

I want to use my Raspberry Pi to give new live to an old PowerBook (Power PC) that seems to have a broken motherboard. I would like to be able to use the wifi, conectors, keyboard and screen. Any tips?
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How to use Raspberry PI 2 without screen and keyboard?

I have a windows8 laptop (with SD card reader) and a raspberry 2. It works well if I connect it to a monitor and a keyboard at home. But how is it possible to use it, if I'm not home, and I can just use my laptop?
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Getting started with raspberry pi B+

I just got r-pi B+ and flashed an 8gb sd card with 'pidora'. But I am stuck at the logging in process. I don't have a display for the r-pi. All I have is a laptop running Fedora 20 and a raspberry pi model B+ and a lan cable and a power supply…
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Booting Raspbian onto a Laptop

So I've installed Raspbian (from the image file found on the website) onto an SD Card and plugged this into my Raspberry Pi --- it works. I used my TV to display the output and everything worked fine. Now I'm trying to use my laptop…
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How to Connect Raspberry Pi 3 to Laptop via Ethernet Cable

How do I display Raspberry Pi 3 screen onto laptop? I followed instructions to set up Raspberry Pi here, https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/raspberry-pi-setting-up I got up to here,…
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Using my old laptop as an external monitor

I have been looking round to see if there is a solution for this question, but in vain. Please don't blame me if there is. So I have got a broken Dell Vostro 14-5480. Its monitor has no problems at all, but I don't want to dissemble it to make an…
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How to access pi camera with OpenCV to Laptop?

I do not have HDMI supported monitor for Raspberry pi 3. I want to use OpenCV with my pi camera for image processing and access those images and videos with OpenCV image output to my LAPTOP, which is connected to raspberry pi with putty and…
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Pixel with laptop via vnc

I'm using raspberry pi 3 B and the os I'm using is PIXEL. I'm able to use pixel by connecting it to monitor but through putty in laptop I'm unable to get the PIXEL desktop screen. Vnc connection is not working. What should I do to make vnc work and…
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