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.

While there's a wide array of complex and fancy projects you can make with a Raspberry Pi, one of its most practical uses is as a desktop computer.

But the Raspberry Pi-powered PiPocket goes a bit further and basically lets you turn any display with an HDMI input into a Linux or Android-powered computer.

Those who wanted to get it working, needed to search the internet, finding out how to download and burn the Raspberry Pi’s Linux distribution onto an SD card.

Roughly the size of a credit card, the Raspberry Pi single-board computer can be used as a media streaming device, an old-school-style gaming console, or even the “brains” of a robot. Setting ...