Setting up Raspberry Pi

We will talk about the GPIO and other things to do with Raspberry Pi in a while. Firstly, we will understand how to set up this board for the first time.

The first thing you need to do is to make sure that the operating system of Raspberry Pi is ready. I am assuming that you are using a Windows PC, but if you are doing it on another OS as well, then there will not be much of a difference.

To install the OS, start your PC and follow these steps:

1. Go to www.raspberrypi.org and click on DOWNLOADS
2. Now click on RASPBIAN, you will see the following two options:
   • RASPBIAN STRETCH WITH DESKTOP
   • RASPBIAN STRETCH LITE
3. We will be downloading RASPBIAN STRETCH WITH DESKTOP; this will give us the GUI interface for Raspberry Pi
4. After downloading, unzip the package into a folder

Now we need to copy it to the memory card of Raspberry Pi. The memory card over which you need to copy must be formatted by low level formatting. There are basically two types of formatting. one which simply erases...