Raspberry Pi 3 Starter Kit Hookup Guide Introduction Heads up! The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ has the same mechanical footprint as both the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B.
Materials Required You'll need a mouse, keyboard, and monitor to begin with. Once configured, the pi can be operated from its own peripherals or another computer connected over the internet. Note: The serial port still has a few bugs, so it's not recommended to use for configuration. Raspbian can be hacked to get it to work but it's not covered by this guide. This Pi forum post talks about the serial port in more depth.
Unbox and gather these components before beginning the assembly 1. Snap the Pi into the base of the 'tin', then snap the top into place. Fit the Pi into the base of the tin. Make sure the Pi is fully seated. Check that the PCB is evenly recessed about the perimeter.
Click the two halves together 2.
Installing an SD card -- make sure the microSD card is flush with the side of the case when inserted properly. The Pi 3 microSD slot doesn't have a spring as the previous pis did, so if it's flush with the label outward, it is seated correctly. 3. Connect the ribbon cable to the Pi -- notice that the pin 1 marking is very subtle. Orient the red stripe on the cable towards the SD card. Alternately, pin 1 can be identified by finding the missing/beveled corner of the header's silkscreen on the pi.
Socket the end of the ribbon cable into the Wedge. It is keyed, but each end of the cable is different. Make sure the ribbon extends away from the breadboard connection. 5.
Wedge inserted in breadboard. 6. Attach the FTDI connector matching "GRN" to "GRN" and "BLK" to "BLK" between the boards.
The FTDI serial adapter is connected matching GRN and BLK connections 7. Attach desired consumer computer equipment. The fully assembled kit. Additional to the kit, user supplied monitor, mouse, and keyboard are shown. This Pi is now a desktop computer.
Getting an OS Note: At the time this was written, the kit comes with a 16GB card loaded with the Noobs OS installation image, version 1.9.0. This card should be ready to boot right out of the box. Getting a New Image If something didn't work, or the installation has been corrupted (messing around in the file system were you?), getting a new copy is easy. Obtain the Noobs OS from raspberrypi.org. Format the card to erase all the files.
sudo apt-get update -- go fetch the latest package information. sudo apt-get upgrade -- And answer Y. Upgrades all the packages. This stage will take a while. sudo shutdown -r now -- Reboot the machine. Methods of Working with the Pi Once the Pi is configured, there are a few methods of using it depending on if you want to use it like a desktop or manage it remotely. This section covers using the Pi in the following ways Using HDMI-out -- Operate your Pi like a desktop computer.
A PuTTY terminal looks nicer than serial and can be used over networks To obtain your IP address, get to a terminal, and use the command ifconfig . Alternately, hover the mouse pointer over the network icon on the task bar. With Ethernet and wireless attached, ifconfig returns something like the following: COPY CODEpi@raspberrypi:~$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:a8:3b:56:1a:f7 inet addr:14.7.3.188 Bcast:14.7.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:20955 (20.4 KiB) TX bytes:9956 (9.7 KiB) If it looks similar but the IP addresses aren't present, that network link hasn't been established. In this example, we know our Ethernet is on IP 14.7.3.188 and our wireless on 32.8.0.142. These can be entered into the PuTTY configuration window to begin the session.
o o o o o o o o Change Keyboard Layout Leave set as: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC (Ok) Select Other (Ok) Select English (US) (Ok) Select English (US) (Ok) Select default (Ok) Select No compose key (Ok) Set Ctrl+Alt+Bksp function (Ok) Finish with the dialog and get back to the shell o Try the " and # keys at the prompt. It may be necessary to restart the pi at this point. Configuring the Internet Interfaces Automatic Configuration Raspbian does a good job of configuring wireless networks automatically.
allow-hotplug wlan1 iface wlan1 inet manual wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf By default, this file is set up to get its configuration from /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf , which is really the proper place for wifi information.
Install Git -- Enter sudo apt-get install git-core (may be installed by default) Git the wiringPi repo -- Enter sudo git clone git://git.drogon.net/wiringPi This will make a folder in your current directory called WiringPi. Build WiringPi However it was obtained, the first step is to build the WiringPi library. The source comes with a script to do all this for you. Go to the WiringPi directory -- Enter cd wiringPi build the WiringPi resources -- Enter sudo .
