Sometimes, you need to access a Raspberry Pi without connecting it to a monitor. That's where SSH comes in. Remote access isn't difficult using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol.

The tiny Raspberry Pi is an incredibly versatile computer, but in order to maximize its capabilities, you'll first need to connect it to a Wi-Fi network.

You'd have to connect your computer to the new Wi-Fi network and find the Pi's new IP address before you can reconnect via SSH.

Enter Raspberry Pi Connect, a new built-in way to access a Raspberry Pi from nearly anywhere you can open a browser, whether to control yourself or provide remote assistance.

Just make sure that the SSH server inside Raspbian is enabled by using the raspi-config tool. It's also a good idea to assign a fixed IP address to the Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi is one of the most popular single-board computers available, as it's extremely versatile. Here's how to use it with your laptop as a monitor.

Last time I showed you how to expose a web service on a Raspberry Pi (or, actually, any kind of device) by using a reverse proxy from Pagekite. On your Pi, you just need a simple Python script.