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Published inOct 2016
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Marco Schwartz
Marco Schwartz
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Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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Assembling the different components


Let's now look at how to assemble the required components so we can get started with your Raspberry Pi:

  1. First, insert the micro-USB to USB adapter cable into one of the USB ports of the Pi (not the PWR one), and also plug the mini-HDMI cable to the Pi.

  2. Then, connect all your required USB devices (for example, the Wi-Fi dongle) to the USB hub, and connect the USB to the Pi. Also, connect the Pi to an external screen using an HDMI cable.

  3. This is how it should look when you are done, not showing the connections to the screen or the hub:

  4. At this point, don't connect it to the power yet—we first need to install Raspbian (the operating system) on the SD card.

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Author (1)

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Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
Read more about Marco Schwartz