Adding Wi-Fi dongle over USB OTG
An easy way to communicate with your Pi and get your little computer connected to the Internet is connecting it to a USB Wi-Fi adapter. Once you have your Raspberry Pi Zero connected to Wi-Fi, we can get it to interact with pretty much anything that lives on your home network.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you will need your Raspberry Pi Zero, a USB OTG adapter, and a USB Wi-Fi device. Most of this equipment comes with any starter kit and is inexpensive to buy individually-the OTG adapters can be found for less than $5 and Wi-Fi dongles are $10-$15. It is still amazing that a lot of these accessories cost at least as much as the computer they are needed for!
A small USB OTG dongle and Wi-Fi adapter make for a pretty ...
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