Chapter 1. Configuring Your Raspberry Pi Zero Board

In the first chapter of this book, we are going to go through all the steps that are required to configure your Raspberry Pi Zero board so you can use it for all the projects we will see in this book.

First we will look at the list of components that are required to use the board. Then, we will install the Raspbian distribution, which will be the operating system we will use throughout this book, on the board. Finally, we'll see how to configure the board for remote, and how to install the Node.js framework that we will use in nearly all the projects of the book. Let's start!

Introducing the Raspberry Pi Zero board

The Raspberry Pi Zero is a board that was introduced in 2015, and the goal was to ...

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