Hour 1. Setting Up the Raspberry Pi
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
What is the Raspberry Pi?
How to get a Raspberry Pi.
What peripherals you need for the Raspberry Pi.
How to get a Raspberry Pi working.
How to troubleshoot a Raspberry Pi.This lesson introduces the Raspberry Pi: what it is, its history, and why you should learn how to
program in Python on it. By the end of this hour, you will know what peripherals are needed for a
Raspberry Pi and how to get one up and running.
What Is a Raspberry Pi?
A Raspberry Pi is a very inexpensive, fully programmable computer that is small enough to fit into the
palm of your hand (see Figure 1.1). While the Raspberry Pi is small in size, it is mighty in potential.
You can use it like a regular desktop computer or create a super-cool project with it. For example,
you could use a Raspberry Pi to set up your very own home-based cloud storage server.