Technical requirements

For this chapter, we will need a Raspberry Pi with a power supply, screen, keyboard and mouse, and the requisite cables. Some of this chapter has been written on the Pi 400, which is a handy version of the Pi that’s installed on a keyboard with everything we need except a monitor. Other parts have been written using a Raspberry Pi 3 single-board computer.

Note that a Pi Zero or Pi Pico will not work. They use a different ARM chip version, so the architecture won’t work with .NET.

For simple automation, we’ll need the following:

• A breadboard
• An LED
• A 300-400 Ohm resistor (but 250-500 will work)
• Two male-to-female jumper cables