Senior Design Week 3 -Pedro C.

Connecting to the Raspberry Pi with VS Code and SSH

This week I set up SSH access to our Raspberry Pi using Visual Studio Code, which has already made development way smoother. Instead of plugging in a monitor, keyboard, and mouse every time, I can now just open up VS Code and connect to the Pi directly through the terminal.

What’s really cool is that I set it up to work in two different ways. If the Pi and my laptop are on the same Wi-Fi network, I can just SSH in over that connection with no problem. But I also configured the Pi to act as its own Wi-Fi hotspot. So even if there’s no shared network around, like if we’re testing somewhere remote, I can still connect to the Pi directly by hopping onto its Wi-Fi signal.

Having both options gives us a lot more flexibility. Whether we’re in the lab, out in the field, or just troubleshooting something quickly, we’ve now got an easy way to connect and work on the code without needing any extra hardware.