What is Raspberry Pi & How to use it for beginners.

In this blog I would let you know the simple way to configure the Raspberry Pi for the very first time.

Those who don’t know what is Raspberry Pi?
The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

It is small credit card size computer that you can plug to monitor and TV and can use keyboard mouse with it basically for the people who are interested in coding python, Linux etc.

Here I will let you know the series of Pi till now :

Raspberry Pi 3B
A+
B+
Raspberry Pi 4B (1GB)
B (2GB)
B (4GB)
B (8GB)

Now let’s get start.

You will need any model of Raspberry PI as stated above a memory card(8GB to 16GB or you can expand them) and power cord you will need to power the Pi.

1st step you will need to browse the Raspberry Pi download site which is https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ you can download the image file of it for different operating system like Windows, MAC, or Ubuntu.

2nd step after downloading the image file you will need to format the SD card using SD card formatter or other ways and then write the image file of Raspberry Pi OS into SD card using various tool such as Win32DiskImage or balenaEtcher it will take sometime to write the image file after that this step is important to add a new folder call “ssh” on the Raspberry Pi image folder save it which will help you to give SSH access of Pi once connected.

3rd step is connection the Raspberry pi has Ethernet port so you will need to connect the LAN ethernet cable to it and then insert the SD card and connect the power adapter of 15W type C to boot if for the first time. And then you will need to get the IP address of Pi by scanning the IP address using Advanced IP scanner https://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com/ this app is on Windows PC for MAC you can try Angry IP scanner https://angryip.org/download/. Once you get the IP you will need to open the PuTTY https://www.putty.org/ session on Windows or Terminal on MAC you will need to enter the IP address of Pi and port 22 hit enter for the first time it will ask for login as username would be “pi” and the password will be raspberry so you are into Raspberry Pi then you will need to config the Pi.

4th step will be to configure the Pi as per your need but you should not skip this part
you have to run this command “sudo raspi-config it will Raspberry Pi Software configuration tools.

Here you have to change the default password for the ‘pi’ user.
And then you have choose the 5 options called Interfacing Options here you can enable the remote command line to your Pi using SSH.

5th step is many of them won’t have a display monitor just for Accessing Raspberry Pi in that case we can use VNC viewer an app to remote screen your Pi.
On the same sudo raspi-config tool under interfacing option we can enable VNC also.

Once VNC is enable you can download VNC viewer from Google here is the link https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer/windows/ after installing open the VNC viewer app and then enter a VNC server address or search use you Pi IP address hit enter it will ask for authentication as username and password once entered you will see Raspberry Pi screen.

Great we did the Raspberry Pi setup in simple 5 steps you can also try it once you will love it.