Just finished building a couple of mini-towers for my IoT Club. The idea is the towers can be kept in a cupboard at school and just brought out when I run the IoT Club. All I would need to do is plug the 6-port PSU into the mains and switch-on the Club's WiFi router. Should save a lot of time as pr…

Certainly impressive, but did the pi foundation start making exceptions for educational usage allowing to buy multiple Pi0(H)W devices to a single customer or did all your students have to buy their own? As for those vintage devices, I’ve a first batch Pi 1B+ here. I was on the waiting list for the…

Hi Lena, The school ordered twelve RPi-Z-Ws when the school broke up for the summer (end-of-July 2019). Eventually ONE Pi was delivered and the rest of the order was cancelled by the supplier. After a long "wait", one of the suppliers informed the school they could purchase any number of RPi-Z-W…

So is the idea that you have control over these pi and all you need to arrange is ability to vnc into them?

Not quite... The two towers and the Club's WiFi router will sit at the end of the classroom. There are 36 PCs in the room in clusters of six - they are all wired with CAT cables into the school's network. I give each student a WiFi dongle so the PC they decide to sit at can be WiFi-enabled. At th…

[image] dynamicdave: I give each student a WiFi dongle so the PC they decide to sit at can be WiFi-enabled. Got you - your lucky that the school network let's you do that :slight_smile: JFI if you ever wanted to vnc in to the pi - you might be able to load the realvnc chrome extension on th…

It was all done with the 'blessing' of the school's IT dept.

[image] dynamicdave: My word it takes a lot of time to flash 12 SD cards, update and upgrade the operating system, then sort of the WiFi network and IP addresses. Maybe next time: flash one, upgrade the OS, instal what eerlese you need then use piclone to make copies....Once you have one clon…

With an increasing number of "identical" machines (except IP address and name), you might also want to look at using Ansible to manage them.

[image] TotallyInformation: you might also want to look at using Ansible to manage them. I can vouch for ansible, it’s great especially for managing identical installs. Do note that Windows as host machine (the machine controlling all those other machines) is not supported (unless through WSL…

[image] afelix: Do note that Windows as host machine (the machine controlling all those other machines) is not supported (unless through WSL), Yes, I've used WSL with configuration files (it is all file-based config) in a folder soft-linked from my personal OneDrive so that everything is auto…

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