Install Raspbian get connected and basic networking

In this activity, we will show you how you can get started with your Raspberry Pi. Some of you may have done this before and there are easier ways to do this. The most simple way to get started with a Raspberry Pi is to buy a pre-installed sd card running NOOBS. You can then plug in a monitor, keyboard and mouse.

The aim of this unit is to teach you some fundamentals of IoT device, so it is important that you can use a serial connection on an IoT device which may not have an Internet connection. Secondly, we have devised an IoT and a unit with no additional assumptions above a laptop and a phone. So we are assuming that you don't have a spare keyboard, monitor and mouse available.

Start by downloading the Raspbian Lite image: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

The reason that we will use the Raspbian lite image is that it does not use a graphical user interface. We will do our best to keep students on the command line as this is how most IoT devices will run, in "headless mode".

While the image is downloading, please find, Download and install Balener Etcher from: https://www.balena.io/. We will use Balener Etcher to safely install the image to your sd card. It works on Windows, OSX and Linux and does a pretty good job of preventing you from writing the Raspbian image to any of your computer's drives.