Getting started with raspberry pi 3
I am in home almost for 1 month now. Feeling lots of emotion all together; Bored, Depressed, Angry, Overwhelmed, Tensed you name it.
Today morning I bring out my tool kit box from storage out of boredom and found my almost new raspberry pi 3 along with some kits. These things I wanted to explore back in 2017 but couldn’t find enough time :( . Hopefully i can manage now.
So in this blog I’ll share how to setup a brand new raspberry pi, as i am renewing my information about it.
Prerequisite:
- Raspberry pi 3
- 5v power adapter or Smart phone adapter(not guaranteed with this solution ) with micro USB power input cable
- Class 10 micro sd card with minimum 8 Gb storage.
- HDMI to HDMI or HDMI to VGA cable to connect to monitor
- USB mouse and keyboard
Process:
- First, go here and download the zip or the file you want
- Then go here and download then install it
- Connect your sd card with your PC
- Run the installed app Etcher
- Select the downloaded zip for burning the disk image and select the sd card for burning in it
- Hit start button
- After successfully completion, eject the card.
- Now plug the SD card in pi3 board
- Connect mouse, keyboard and HDMI cable
- Connect the power adapter in power port
- In the monitor you will see its setting up
- After that, you are ready to go.
Voila, all things done.
Extra:
If you want to connect your pi via ssh rather with UI, then
- First connect the internet either with Ethernet or wifi
- Then in the terminal run ifconfig to get your device ip address like 192.168.0.xxx
- Then you need to initiate the ssh server
- Enter sudo raspi-config in a terminal window
- Select Interfacing Options
- Navigate to and select SSH
- Choose Yes
- Select Ok
- Choose Finish
- Then go to your desktop open terminal(Mac or Linux) or putty/git shell(windows user)
- connect using ssh pi@192.168.0.xxx
- Password is raspberry by default
And you are connected!
btw i added the mac address of the the pi in my router’s DHCP client list and statically bind it with a ip like 192.168.0.123. So that whenever this device connected with my route it will be assigned with 192.168.0.123 and i can ssh with the same ip.
That’s all for this now, I’ll share more after I learn new things. :)
