November 2018
Beginner
472 pages
13h 5m
English
Content preview from Learn Robotics Programming
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Preparing an SD card
To use Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi, you will need to put the software onto a micro SD card in a way that the Raspberry Pi can load it.
First, we need to download Raspbian. To do this, take your browser to the Raspberry Pi Raspbian Downloads Page: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/. On this page, you'll see two distributions: Raspbian With a Desktop and Raspbian Lite. Both these links will be the current version of Raspbian:
The Raspberry Pi downloads screen
The Raspbian Lite downloads can be seen highlighted in the preceding image. You'll see two download links, Download Torrent and Download Zip. Click the ...