For Christmas I got a Raspberry Pi Zero-W single-board computer. They cost around $10 and are amazingly tiny and use very little power. My goal was to attach this to the usb printer (HP LaserJet 1020) in my home to share it on the network without having to have a desktop computer attached to it and running all the time. This would be much cheaper than buying a new wireless enabled HP printer ($200). Also this would give me a good excuse to play with one of these little single-board computers... There were a few hurdles to get everything working but I did succeed after some googling and tinkering. It's been working like a champ so far and now I can print from all our home computers and Android phones. I mostly followed this tutorial . Here are the steps to set this up... Download the Lite version of Raspbian . This is a minimal Linux distro based on Debian. Use Etcher (or something similar) to copy the Raspbian image to a micro SD disk (you don't need t...
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