Raspberry Pi Part 1 Introduction

Key Takeaways

hello everybody welcome to my raspberry pi tutorial uh in this tutorial we're going to be talking about everything raspberry pi but initially just the basic setting up of raspberry pi if you look around online um i assume a lot of you guys probably are watching this before you even have a raspberry pi um but if you look around the line it looks like ooh man that might be kind of difficult to set up a raspberry pi i don't really know what i'm doing but it's actually very very easy so initially when you finally buy your raspberry pi it's your bundle joy's gonna come in this box and within the box will just be the board that contains your raspberry pi so let me set the camera down here and when you open it up this is all that's in there basically and we'll just go ahead and take her out so this is what you get with your raspberry pi you've got audio rca you've got some io here we'll be talking a lot about this one um and you've got if you've got uh the ethernet one that has ethernet you'll have an ethernet spot there for a cat5 cable over here you've got your hdmi which is nice you've got a couple usb obviously you can slap in a usb extender there and finally you have a uh well your power spot basically and that power is even though a lot of people try to sell you up how like raspberry pi power cables really all you need is a cell phone charger okay and you want to have some it's gotta be pushing five volts at preferably over a thousand or a thousand plus milliamps but it can be anything as low as 700 milliamps so just find something that does that basically a cell phone charger that's what's going to do it 700 milliamps is more than fine if you're running it headless but if you're connecting monitor you've got some ethernet coming in and out and you've got some usb mouse and keyboard being uh pushed out of this thing you're gonna need more likely around a thousand milliamps or more just so it's stable that way like ebbs and flows aren't gonna just shut the thing down because the last thing you want to do is have this thing turn off on you it's really unstable as far as the sd card is concerned i've already had my sd card has been corrupted like three times mostly due to overclocking anyway um so that's that you're also going to obviously want um something uh you don't have to buy one specifically for the board right at least in the initial setup you're going to want to have a monitor keyboard um probably just a monitoring keyboard it's probably the best thing to have immediately you could have a mouse just to make it a little easier but for the most part monitor keyboard and an sd card um usually it's not going to come with any of those things because they just kind of assume that everybody has monitor and sd card cell phone with a charger so yeah you just need one of those little micro usb things to charge it or really just plug it in there's no on off switch so if it's plugged in it's on um and then the other thing i would just recommend is you get one of these little cases i'll show you guys with it in the case in a bit but this is kind of what it looks like he just kind of pieced the case together um i see this one a lot everywhere i'm actually really happy with it the fit is like perfect and i think it looks okay i like that it's clear because i like to look at the board but there's tons of cases i highly suggest you get one otherwise dust will fall in here and the last thing you want is eventually dust to cover over this little baby processor here basically because then it's going to insulate a lot of heat so anyway uh that's that with the basics next thing i'm going to be showing you guys is how to prepare your sd card to put on the operating system and uh set that up and then base and then eventually we'll get this bad boy turned on and i'll show you guys how easy it is to get uh everything set up and at least get to a desktop so that's what everybody you know you're familiar with seeing a desktop so we will be getting to that point and have no fear it's very simple so as always thank you for watching thank you for your support your subscriptions and until next time