Adafruit Raspberry Pi Quick-Start

Raspberry Pi Computer Quick-Start

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Last updated on 2020-10-17 01:14:22 AM EDT

Raspberry Pi Quick Setup

This quick-start guide will get you ready to connect and run all sorts of Adafruit projects on your Raspberry Pi computer

You will need:

A modern Raspberry Pi computer (https://adafru.it/ejq), we recommend the 'full' size Pi 3 B+ and later, that come

with Ethernet and WiFi built in

Matching power supply (USB C type for Pi 4 and later (https://adafru.it/FQQ), or Micro USB type for Pi 3 B+, Pi

Zeros (https://adafru.it/e5A) or earlier)

8 GB or larger micro SD card (https://adafru.it/JA0) and USB reader/writer

SD Card Prep

First we need to perform the basic set up the Raspberry Pi. These are the first steps:

download the latest Raspbian desktop operating system

burn the OS to an SD card

enable SSH

add WiFi settings and credentials

For details on doing these things, follow the first four pages of this guide (https://adafru.it/DQA) to get your Pi setup with Raspbian Lite (for 'headless' or remote operation) or NooBs (for graphical / desktop use), WiFi, and ssh enabled.

Once the SD card is prepared, come back here so we can continue.

Power to the Pi

Safely eject the SD card from your main computer. Then, with the Pi unplugged from power, insert the SD card into the

Pi's SD card slot.

Then, plug in the power to the Pi. You should see some LEDs light up.

From here forward, we'll be connecting to the Pi remotely from our main computer. Make sure your computer is on the

same WiFi network as the Pi.

Ping

After a minute or two, you can try and ping the Pi to see if it has connected to your network. Open a terminal on your

computer, such as Terminal.app on a mac (Windows users will require some additional setup. Read

here (https://adafru.it/q1e)), and type this and press return:

ping -c 3 raspberrypi.local

You should see an output similar to this:

jep@machine ~ % ping -c 3 raspberrypi.local PING raspberrypi.local (192.168.1.68): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.68: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=14.993 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.68: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=20.565 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.68: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=50.571 ms

--- raspberrypi.local ping statistics --3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.993/28.710/50.571/15.625 ms

This tells us that the Pi is on the network, and has an address of 192.168.1.68.

SSH

We can now connect to it through the secure shell (SSH) so we can control it remotely.

Here's some great info on SSH (https://adafru.it/vbC) from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Type the following in your terminal:

ssh pi@raspberrypi.local

ssh pi@192.168.1.68 (or whatever address you saw returned earlier when you pinged it.)

You may see a message warning you that the authenticity of the host can't be established, Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

To this question you can reply by typing yes and pressing return. This will add the Pi to your list of known hosts and

should not pop up again with this question.

You will now see the password prompt for the Pi:

pi@raspberrypi.local's password:

Go ahead and type in the default password, which is: raspberry

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