First Booting : Raspberry Pi

          Today, there are lot and lots of Development Boards are available in the home market. I picked the Raspberry Pi for several reasons.

Raspberry Pi

             Raspberry Pi (often called as R-pi) is the single board credit card sized computer with have a single System on Chip (SoC) board with the basic inbuilt computer features. It was developed by the Raspberry pi foundation in England.

R-pi 2 model B

          There are series of R-pi boards are available like(A/A+/B/B+/Zero/pi3) every new design overcomes the bugs in the older model.

       Now I'm going to show how to setup your first Raspberry pi and loading the boot window.

Hardware Required

• Raspberry pi
• Monitor
• Mouse & Keyboard
• Micro USB (5V/2A)
• Micro SD card (8GB Recommended)
• Micro SD to SD adapter
• HDMI to VGA converter

Required Hardware 

Software Required

• SD Formatter   Download Here
• NOOBS           Download Here

        NOOBS is an New Out Of the Box Software which is an easy installer for the Raspbian Operating System which is based on Debian to work with R-pi.

Hardware Installation

• Plug the Micro SD card in the Micro SD slot. 
• Connect your USB Keyboard and Mouse. 
• Plug your monitor via HDMI Port. 
• Power up your Pi with Micro USB port. 

Pi with External Hardware

Software Installation

                 
               There is an simple procedure is to follow to install the OS in the SD card.

• Download and Install the SDFormatter from the above link and RUN it. 
• Plug your Micro SD into your SD adapter and insert it in your PC. 
• SDFormatter will show the Drive letter, Size and the label. Check and modify it. 
• If everything is all set. Click Format. 

           After formatting your Micro SD card with your SDFormatter. Extract the NOOBS. After extracted open the NOOBS folder and copy the files and paste it in your SD card. If everything gone good. Insert your micro SD card into your R-pi. It will ask for the Installation of the Raspbian OS

Installation Window

In my case I'm already installed it. You can check the box and click install to install it. It will take 40 minutes (apporx) to complete the installation.

Wow.. You are almost done. After installation, The new Raspberry pi boot up window will appear with the hell lot of texts.

First boot of R-pi. 

      After completely booted. It'll login into the Default pi account. And the home window will appear like the below pic.

Pi Home 

                        Hooo.. Your Raspberry pi is booted up successfully.

Thank you

If you have any negative issue. Feel free to contact :Abu