Raspberry Pi

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Getting Started

Hardware to buy

• Raspberry Pi 3 from CanaKit or another trusted vendor (be careful there are lots of bad cheaper versions that looks just like good ones)
• Kuman starter kit with sensors, breadboard and wires
• Resistors kit so you make most sensor circuits.

Download and provision a SD card

• Officials instructions from Raspberry for more options and operating systems
• Navigate to https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ then download latest Raspbian zip file
• Download Win32 Disk Imager and install it.
• Launch Win32DiskImager.exe and flash the downloaded Raspbian image to your SD card
  

Run a setup script

I wrote one at https://github.com/olignyf/pisetup

$> git clone https://github.com/olignyf/pisetup
$> cd pisetup
$> chmod +x *.sh
$> ./full.sh
or
$> ./quick.sh # will bypass apt-get upgrade step, not recommended, unless you have done it already.

Note: It will take at least 3+ hours to upgrade all the system packages and setup the Raspberry Pi.

Compiling Node.js

$> wget https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v6.x/node-v6.10.0.tar.gz
$> tar -xzvf node-v6.10.0.tar.gz
$> cd node-v6.10.0
$> ./configure
$> time make
$> sudo make install

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