Raspberry Pi for Arduino Users: Building IoT and Network Applications and Devices

© James R. Strickland 2018

James R. StricklandRaspberry Pi for Arduino Usershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3414-3_2

2. Meet the Raspberry Pi

James R. Strickland¹ 

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Highlands Ranch, Colorado, USA

 

Introduction

In this chapter, we’ll hook the Pi up so we can work with it, download the NOOBS installer, put it on the SD card for your Pi, and boot the Pi for the first time. I’ll cover how to do this for Windows, MacOS X, and Linux.

Windows

These procedures were developed with Windows 10 and should work on any subsequent version. Windows 7 might also work, but I haven’t tried it. I should mention that I’m not a Windows user by preference, so these procedures were developed in a virtual machine. It shouldn’t make a difference.

MacOS X

These procedures ...