Setting up a Raspberry Pi 3 as an Access Point
Contributors:
Shawn Hymel
Shawn Hymel 
Resources and Going Further
With the Raspberry Pi set up as an access point, you can now configure it to host a web site (e.g. using Apache), share drive space (e.g. Samba), and any other fun router customizations you might want (but on a Pi, instead!).
Looking for some inspiration for your Raspberry Pi? Check out these tutorials:
Raspberry Pi Twitter Monitor
How to use a Raspberry Pi to monitor Twitter for hashtags and blink an LED.
Raspberry Pi Zero Helmet Impact Force Monitor
How much impact can the human body handle? This tutorial will teach you how to build your very own impact force monitor using a helmet, Raspberry Pi Zero, and accelerometer!
Setting Up the Pi Zero Wireless Pan-Tilt Camera
This tutorial will show you how to assemble, program, and access the Raspberry Pi Zero as a headless wireless pan-tilt camera.
Using Flask to Send Data to a Raspberry Pi
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use the Flask framework for Python to send data from ESP8266 WiFi nodes to a Raspberry Pi over an internal WiFi network.
Raspberry Pi Stand-Alone Programmer
This tutorial will show you how to use a headless Raspberry Pi to flash hex files onto AVR microcontrollers as a stand-alone programmer. It also tells the story about production programming challenges, how SparkFun came to this solution, and all the lessons learned along the way.
Interested in learning more about WiFi?
Get a background in how WiFi works as well as the hardware available to help you connect your project wirelessly.
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