Hardware Components:

• The RaspberryPi  (Tested on Raspberry Pi model I-B, I-B+ and II-B)
• A USB WiFi dongle or Ethernet cable (Tested on Edimax WiFi Dongle)
• SD/MicroSD card (8 GB+) (check out NOOBS)

Software Stack:

• Raspbian – a fork of Debian designed for the Raspberry Pi 
• Node.js
  • Socket.io – Web-sockets module
  • Express – Web-framework module
  • Omxcontrol – OMX-player controller module
• Chromium Browser
• OMX-player
• Youtube-dl – Youtube video downloader
• Quo.js – Cross-platform swipe gestures library
• HTML5, CSS3 transitions, Javascript, and Moustache as a template engine
• Youtube API

End-result:

Outline

• Installing software and packages.
• Basic shellcode
• Server-side scripting: Node.js, Express.js, and Socket.io
• Client-side scripting: Dashboard and remote mobile-app

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