u/DenseAd6159

Hey everyone!

I recently spent quite a bit of time creating a minimal Buildroot image for the Raspberry Pi Zero W that automatically connects to WiFi and starts SSH on boot.

The idea was to make headless setup much easier when you don’t have micro HDMI or UART adapter.

So I decided to clean everything up and publish it as a small open-source repo containing:

• the Buildroot board configuration
• WiFi + SSH setup
• rootfs overlay
• a detailed README
• and a GitLab CI pipeline that automatically builds the final sdcard.img

It’s currently made for the Raspberry Pi Zero W, but it should be easy to adapt for other Raspberry Pi boards as well.

Repository in comments.

Hopefully this saves someone a few hours of setup/debugging 🙂
Feedback and improvements are welcome!