Raspberry Pi 5 OpenWRT Travel Router

After a couple years of use from my old Raspberry Pi x OpenWRT Travel Router, it was time to upgrade. The brief was pretty simple – it has to be smaller, faster, based on a Raspberry Pi and most importantly,…
Plays with tech.
Plays with tech.

After a couple years of use from my old Raspberry Pi x OpenWRT Travel Router, it was time to upgrade. The brief was pretty simple – it has to be smaller, faster, based on a Raspberry Pi and most importantly,…

As part of my Raspberry Pi based travel router project, I setup a VPN client on the Pi using OpenVPN because that’s what I’m familiar with. Unfortunately the performance was pretty poor so I decided to move to Wireguard in…

OpenWrt is very fussy with USB WiFi adapters and I have only managed to get two adapters to work reliably – my old TP-Link WA722N v1.1 that has an Atheros AR9271L chipset and the Comfast CF-926AC which uses the MediaTek…

Let's use an ESP8266 to add a 0.91' OLED display to my Raspberry Pi based travel router that runs OpenWrt.

Updates: Wow, this post blew up – thanks to everyone who has been checking it out! 1. I’ve managed to get the oled display to work 🎉 check it out here -> Adding an OLED display to an OpenWrt router.2.…