You’re using your Pi and your monitor keeps going blank and it’s driving you mad.
There are various methods to accomplish this so we’ll look at a few. That way if you find one isn’t working for you, you’ll have some alternatives.
A great reason to do this is increased security. On a fresh copy of Raspbian, your username and password will be ‘pi’ and ‘raspberry’. You may have projects that are more public and require a bit more security.
This a quick way to check something on the web without firing up the GUI and then a browser. I found its good for text based sites like news, blogs or articles.
With some projects you may have a need for a portrait oriented display. Or perhaps you’re one of the ‘cool kids’.
You might recall a blog post going around called the ‘Magic Mirror’ by Michael Teeuw. This was a really cool project and a perfect example of why you may have a need to rotate your display.
The main use case was I wanted to see some geofenced Twitter tweets and/or some relevant keyword terms. Getting a bird’s eye view of some relevant tweets seemed very interesting to me.
Sometimes you want to control your Pi from your regular computer. Maybe you want to start a program on the Pi without being infront of the Pi.
First you have to make/name your drive.
sudo mkdir /mnt/nameofyourdrive