Chapter 6. Meet Raspberry Pi

 

What is the Raspberry Pi?

Exploring your Raspberry Pi’s parts: hardware

Giving your Pi a cozy home: Pi cases

The brain of your Pi: system on a chip

Connecting a keyboard and mouse: USB ports

Storing memories: your Pi gets a memory card

Connecting a TV or monitor: HDMI port

Other ports and connections

Powering your Pi: microUSB power port

It’s alive! Plugging in the Pi

Getting your Pi running: software

Installing the Raspbian operating system

Configuring the operating system: making it yours

Saving your configuration and rebooting

Getting around: learning Raspbian

Finding and opening applications on your Raspberry Pi

Your files and folders

Writing code

Fruit Picker Extra: shopping at the Pi Store

Challenge

Scavenger hunt

Summary