Summary

We started this chapter by taking a quick look at the Raspberry Pi, including what it does, what it was designed to do, and how people use it. We looked at the different series; the main B series single board computers, the Zero mini version, and the Pico single chip board. We learned that we can only install PowerShell on the B series since the architecture of the chip is wrong on the Zero and Pico series.

Next, we looked at different ways of installing PowerShell on the Pi using a script provided by Microsoft. Then, we saw how easy it is to install VS Code on the Pi since it is included in the official Raspberry Pi repositories.

While there are Raspberry Pi models that are suitable as desktop PC replacements, most people will use the Raspberry Pi without a screen or mouse – that is, in headless mode. We looked at how to set up a Raspberry Pi in headless mode, and then how to connect to it from PowerShell with SSH, before going on to look at a convenient way to...