Summary

In this chapter, we covered the basic setup of the Pi hardware and Raspbian OS. You learned how to discover the IP address of the Pi in order to allow remote access to it over SSH; this process will be used in the majority of the projects later in this book.

We also took a quick look at the GPIO expansion header, and how it is typically used to interface with external hardware. We also used this as a crude FM transmitter through which we wrote a single Python script to broadcast music.

In the next chapter, we will go into further details regarding how to set up various software packages in order to run them on the Pi, as well as you will learn the various ways to configure networking when we make a portable speaker system that runs the Logitech Media Server.