Thanks for the quick and thorough responses Use wake-on-lan , if your PC supports it as that doesn't need any hardware, doesn't need you switching mains voltages and doesn't need you hacking the PC motherboard. As drgeoff points out Thankfully there is no mains voltage anywhere inside a conventional...

While WOL (wake on LAN) would probably be the easiest route, that's not the objective here. I'd like to use a pizero with a momentary switch to wireless trigger the gpio pins attached to the power + and - pins on a desktop computer motherboard. There isn't much current going across those pins so I'm...

I have accomplished this in the past but cannot find the exact method i used. I was trying to control a usb robotic arm but their was no linux software for the arm so i used the raspberry pi as a wireless usb hub. I am attempting to do the same thing with a usb powered monitor(which may be the probl...

Hi Everyone, i just upgraded to the lastest OSX operating system and noticed when i launched Pi Baker which is my go to sd card software that my SSD for OSX now shows up as well. I have noticed that a lot of the beginner tutorials on the web and in this forum suggest that software. I just want peopl...