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Setting up Raspberry Pi

Last updated 1 month ago

Raspberry Pi will require the installation of an operating system. The easiest way to install an operating system on Raspberry Pi is to use the .

While the Raspberry Pi Imager tool offers live download and installation of the Raspberry Pi OS, this tutorial uses a manual download and install option.

Download the latest 32-bit version of . Save the *.img.xz file anywhere on your laptop. This will be used in the following steps.

Next, download and install on your laptop.

Choose your Raspberry Pi board after clicking on the Choose Device option.

Next, click on Choose OS option and scroll through the list of operating systems until you find the "Use Custom" option towards the end of the list.

Click on the "Use custom" option and choose the *.img.xz file.

Plug in your SD card in your laptop and select it through the Choose Storage option in the Raspberry Pi Imager tool. Make sure to setup some password during installation. Default username is Pi.

Click Next and select Edit Settings option.

Enter customisations as shown in the screenshot below. Turn on your Mobile Hotspot (if available) and enter the name and password of the hotspot in the SSID and password field, respectively. Ensure that the Wireless LAN country is set to IE and locale settings have the correct Time zone (Europe/Dublin) and Keyboard layout selected. Click Save and then Yes in the customisation popup.

Click next and wait until the tool finishes writing up the OS on the SD card.

Eject the SD card from your laptop and insert the card into Raspberry Pi.

Ensure that Raspberry Pi OS displays the correct time in the clock once it starts. If it displays incorrect time, use the following command to set correct time.

To ensure that the Raspberry Pi OS displays the correct time, observe the clock when it starts. If the time is incorrect, use the following command to set the correct time:

sudo date -s "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS"

Replace "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" with the current date

Raspberry Pi OS comes with Python already installed. You can check the version of Python by running the following command in the Terminal

python --version

Next, perform an upgrade operation on the newly installed Raspberry Pi OS by running following commands in the Terminal

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Next, Install the Python Extension on Visual Studio Code (refer to previous tutorial on VSCode)

If Mobile hotspot is not available to you. Follow instructions on to connect Raspberry Pi to eduroam network.

Install Microsoft Visual Studio Code >

connecting to eduroam page
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/raspberry-pi
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