Raspberry Setup

August 04, 2019

Download Raspberry pi OS

First go to the following site and download noobs zip: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/

Format SD Card

This step is only needed if this a new SD card

For mac:

  • Open Disk Utility
  • Select the SD card on left nav
  • Click Erase
  • Select MS-DOS
  • Click Erase

Copy files

  • Once download is complete, extract zip
  • Copy the zip contents to SD card
  • Eject SD card

Connect Peripheral

  • Insert micro USB into Raspberry pi
  • Plug-in USB keyboard and mouse to Raspberry pi
  • Plug-in HDMI to Raspberry pi
  • Plug-in 5V power supply
  • As soon as you plug it in, it will power up.

Install OS

  • Select your language at the bottom of the screen
  • Check raspbian
  • Click install. This part will take a while.
  • When it is done, go through setup and then reboot

Configuration

  • Click Raspberry in top left
  • Click Preferences
  • Click Raspberry PI Configuration
  • Change Hostname
  • Click Interfaces
  • Enable SSH and VNC
  • Click on and reboot

SSH into

  • Open terminal on Raspberry and run hostname -I

  • Open terminal on Mac and run:

    ssh pi@raspberry-ip

VNC into

download real vnc from: https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer/macos

  • Open VNC Viewer
  • Insert ip
  • Type user and password

Voila

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