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Yeah. This would be great if it could emulate usb storage, do transparent bridging via switch vlans, support serial consoles, etc, but it is just a case, battery, disk, and bad keyboard.



raspberry pi's support USB gadget mode, and can thus emulate USB storage with the right connector.

TTL-level serial port pins exist as well.


This is how the PiKVM works. It pretends to be a hub with an attached mouse/keyboard (and optionally a flash drive/storage)

Then optionally you can connect your motherboards power/reset pins so you can reboot or turn off remotely.

Video is a third party HDMI capture card that plugs into the Pis camera port.


There's nothing particularly stopping you implementing at least most of that in software if you want. Stick a suitably-programmable switch in and you could do the rest too.


Exactly my point - this project seems of limited usefulness because it could have done a lot more but didn’t add much utility that a pi+screen+keyboard doesn’t already have.




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